Today I read about a new Wiki project that could greatly accelerate my ability to conceptualize how citizens could be effective in applying Social Networking solutions to natural resource issues. You can read the short article titled, "Wikia adds new communities" by Elinor Mils written for CNET news on February 13, 2007.My immediate interest was in the new "Local Community Wikia" project which will provide users the opportunity to add and edit a wide range of topics for nearly every town in the United States. The main categories include Politics, Business, Tech, Education, Health, Arts, Sports and Other. Once you are visiting any town you can find sections where people can share stories, write articles and update information about community events, organizations and concerns.
This new Wikia project is just starting and only a few pages have been created in Boise, Idaho. However, I plan to initiate a few experimental pages to discuss topics like 1. Sustainable Remodeling, 2. Local Organic Food sources, 3. West Nile Virus control, and a few others in the near future. I also plan to experiment with this new concept to see if it would be able to satisfy a wide range of natural resource and ecosystem social networking concepts I have discussed previously in this blog. It is also possible to start new specialized Wikis, blogs and Wikia projects using the Local Wikia project. I will also explore this in more detail in the near future.
It should be noted also that co related to the Local Wikia, two additional Wikia Communties have also just been initiated. An Entertainment Wikia will provide movie guides and reviews and a Politics Wikia will provide national, state and local sections which could be valuable for the 2008 elections. These and other Wikia and Wiki projects on the Web should link together when the concerns and issues are similar.
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