Aw yay, I took that photo on the new homepage! It was during an editing party at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco (https://localwiki.org/sf/Prelinger_Libr

Aw yay, I took that photo on the new homepage! It was during an editing party at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco (https://localwiki.org/sf/Prelinger_Library https://localwiki.org/sf/Prelinger_Library). I've been a Wikipedia editor for many years, and last year I started splitting my editing work between Wikipedia and LocalWiki. There is so much I love in the places I've lived that can't fit into Wikipedia's notability/verifiability rules but is still important to me and other people who live in these places, and it's nice to have a collaborative thing to work on that is very relaxed. So I wrote some articles about curious bits of my neighborhood in SF (https://localwiki.org/sf/Old_Mission_Police_Station https://localwiki.org/sf/Old_Mission_Police_Station for example) and then realized I should start a LocalWiki for a place I spent tons of time photographing and researching when I lived there, Isla Vista (next to UC Santa Barbara): https://localwiki.org/islavista/ https://localwiki.org/islavista/ Isla Vista is very interesting but doesn't have a lot of documentation of its history available online, and a lot of residents don't know much about it. It's been fun to use LocalWiki to start organizing and sharing what I've learned about it, and to get other people working with me to build a collective document that goes beyond my own perspective & interests. Also on Metafilter a couple days ago: http://www.metafilter.com/146431/An-Unincorporated-Historic-Neighborhood-Gets-it-Place-on-the-Internet http://www.metafilter.com/146431/An-Unincorporated-Historic-...