LocalWiki really is a fascinating project. I went to University in Davis right when the whole wiki project there was starting. This wasn't just a technical ef

LocalWiki really is a fascinating project. I went to University in Davis right when the whole wiki project there was starting. This wasn't just a technical effort, it was also a social one -- regular wiki barbeques were held, and considerable unified effort was made to get enough content up before "launching" for additional publicity. It is no coincidence that the modest city of Davis, California has quite literally the best town wiki in the world. If you happen to live in Davis, the wiki is more useful than Yelp, Craig's List, and Wikipedia combined. Local Wiki is the effort to extend that elsewhere. I currently live in Woodland, a city right next to Davis. Woodland has a wiki too, and you can even share accounts between there and Davis. But Woodland gets maybe one edit a week on average, while Davis gets over 50 a day. I often find myself visiting places in Davis just because it's easier to learn about them than an equivalent local place. It can't possibly be a technical issue -- it's the exact same software. To make a good wiki happen, I need to do what Davis did: organize a real community in real life, and work together to build something.