Local Wikia Community - Help please!

(Update Feb.17) I did get a response from DNL who is helping with the Local.wikia site.

"I saw that you added some stuff to Category:Boise, Idaho Environment. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that anyone will read it there. If you want people to find your articles, enter them into this form. At the bottom, be sure to select "Idaho" and "Boise" in the drop down boxes as prompted, and in the "tags" box, type "Environment." If you do it that way, your article will be added to the Category:Boise, Idaho Environment page automatically, and your article will have a chance at hitting the front page of the site! Let me know if you have any questions. --DNL "

My response - "Thank you DNL -- Before I saw your note above I started to write another article this morning and the Form did work."

And, as DNL suggested, two articles I wrote appeared as "Popular Articles" on the National Local.Wikia home page and also now show up on the Boise, Idaho local.wikia page.
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Original Post Feb. 16/

I need some help understanding how to edit the Local Wikia pages I mentioned in my last post. For some reason some of their "help" sections do not give me the results I expect. For example the "Create" page forms do not always work.

I have been trying to add some information to the Local Wikia Community for Idaho and Boise. I was able to create a new page titled "Environment" in the Local news section and add some information about Global Warming and Climate Change. However, I am having trouble getting a link to the "New Articles" section to appear on the Boise, Idaho main page as I expected to be able to do.

Does anyone have suggestions to help me (and others) to learn how to use the Local Wikia Community efficiently?

Thanks,
Gary

Wikia initiates "Local Community" project

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.