LocalWiki co-founder Philip and some of the LocalWiki Japan team had a great meetup in Tokyo yesterday afternoon! Thank you to Yukimasa Morisaki, Mikio Sugiyama and the Mitsubish Research Institute for hosting us all!

City government services, mosaic steps, tenant resources, free wifi, free food, bike maps, locals-only deals and more! Check out what's new on the San Francisco LocalWiki...

https://localwiki.org/…/20/san-francisco-city-knowledge-sh…/

This is a big idea we've been throwing around for a while. Help us reimagine libraries as stewards of open knowledge about the local community. Head over to this link and click "applaud". I know, I know. Asking that is stupid and very Facebook-like, but we're told it helps.

https://newschallenge.org/…/local-knowledge-fellowships-a-r…

Folks, great event happening in two weeks in SF! LocalWiki.org & Code for San Francisco are partnering to edit the city! Please join us at Code for America to learn more about LocalWiki and work with others to document San Francisco. There'll be lunch & child care provided (just let us know), as well.

Read all about last week's San Francisco LocalWiki gentrification editathon! http://localwiki.org/…/san-francisco-localwiki-gentrificat…/

You may not realize it, but the Internet is more like a shopping mall than a city. And that sucks. Check out this great talk by Sue Gardner on building the public internet, with shout-outs to LocalWiki.org & Metafilter!

Documenting the collective memories of a town wiped out by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

http://localwiki.org/…/2…/may/20/localwikijp-visits-oakland/

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Great piece in the Oakland Tribune about LocalWiki in Oakland! They've recently crossed the 5,000 page mark, too!

http://www.insidebayarea.com/…/website-aims-record-everythi…

Today is the last day of 2013, which means it's your final chance to make tax-deductible donations for the year! Please consider making a donation to support our work and help bring free, open local knowledge to every corner of the globe http://localwiki.org/donate/

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"While none of them is an urban expert, each has specific knowledge about their place. That child or homeless person or grandmother can bring their knowledge of place straight into the center."

Great piece by urban theorist Saskia Sassen on the theoretical power of LocalWiki (but she hadn't yet heard about us!)

http://techonomy.com/2013/11/open-sourcing-neighborhood/