Archive for 3/9/2010 - 23 Adar, 5770

Here’s a St. Louis Wiki I recently discovered. It’s only six months old. OK, I discovered it back in October, when it was extremely new, and then proceeded to forget about it. I recently rediscovered it.

There are a few major differences in the philosophy behind WikiLou and behind Wikipedia.

To quote from the WikiLou Vision:

The main purpose of WikiLou is to provide information. The information here can be about anything to do with the St. Louis area. Everyone knows something about the area, and if everyone puts what they know on WikiLou, we will have the most comprehensive collaborative database of knowledge about St. Louis that has ever been compiled. Don’t be afraid to make a page for the corner market, your street, even your own house. Nothing is too small to be recorded here…WikiLou is a place for everyone in St. Louis to get themselves out there.

So whereas articles will be deleted on Wikipedia if they are on something that isn’t sufficiently ‘notable‘, and contributors are cautioned against contributing to entries about themselves, this is actively encouraged at WikiLou.