Local apartment block wiki
Last week I created a wiki 6wilkins.wetpaint.com for my local apartment block I just moved into, using the free and easy-to-use Wetpaint wiki platform that Craig Thomler mentioned recently.
I intend it to make it easier for people to meet their neighbours (I’m sorry, but I fail to see anything positive in living in total isolation from your neighbours) and to help organise car-pooling, discuss issues with the building including noise pollution and provide more information about the free wireless network I’m running. However this is not my wiki. I just created it and got the ball rolling. It’s up to the people to decide what it they want it to be.
I advertised the wiki through a flier drop in all the letter boxes in the building … which is only about 20 units, but it’s a start. Maybe I’ll get all the apartments on Wilkins Street involved in the project if this works out.
It’s only been a few days and only one other person has signed up and so far hasn’t contributed to the wiki but I’m optimistic. Give it time.
It’s a good platform, Wetpaint. The quantity of Google text link ads and the Wetpaint banner ads are a little distracting but considering how easy it is to set up, manage and edit a wiki on Wetpaint I can overlook the small inconvenience.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Really interested to see how this pans out - might provide some great insight into the uptake of such tools by the everyday person.
July 27th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
what a great idea! it’s along a similar vein to a sharehouse I used to live in having a forum so that the many housemates and friends could communicate with each other more effectively
July 27th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
this is really cool, keep us posted
August 1st, 2008 at 1:15 am
What an excellent idea. I do hope you get plenty of participation. You have me thinking now of all the ways family friends, neighbours and co-workers could develop their own private social networks outside of the more usual facebook type platforms.