City Council Members Update

Today I went in and created articles for those City Council members that still did not have pages. I copied the info from their bio's which can be found on their official web site.

Also, I'm working on a super-secret project for hereincincinnati.net that is separate from the wiki. I hope to be able to say more about it before the end of the month.

Work on the wiki so far this month

Since my last post, I've worked a lot on the wiki. In the past month, I've been doing more work than average. It seems like every time I work on it, there ends up being more work to to. :)

* I added the info about John Cranley resigning and Greg Harris taking his place.

* I rearranged how the In The News page is layed out. This page is really ballooning faster than I would like. I may need to come with a new system.

* An anonymous user added some links to the wiki that lead to Muckety.com, a site which I had not used before. I really like the site and spent a good chunk of time exploring it. Hopefully I can add more Muckety links to other articles on the wiki as it grows.

Wiki Work for 11/21/2008

Tonight I started out with updating the relevant articles with the results of the November 2008 Elections.

From there I moved on to the In The News Page to tackle some of the stories that have been getting old in there. My original goal was to not let anything get older than a month old, but I've been letting it build up for a while now.

Tonight I was working on this story about some LEED projects getting started in the Gateway Quarter. It was actually more work than I thought it would be. I had to create a number of new articles including Over-the-Rhine, LEED, and Urban Sites. I still have to create articles for the Northpointe Group and B2B Equities.

Groundwater

There was an interesting post on BLDGBLOG yesterday that reminded me of one of the pages I added to the wiki on Thursday about the Great Miami Valley Buried Aquifer. The post refers to an article on New Scientist that's about the work UNESCO is doing related to groundwater resources. I figure it's a good excuse to do a post with a lot of maps in it...



If you live in the northwestern part of Hamilton County, you probably get your water from the GMVBA, an extensive sand and gravel aquifer that extends in a southwesterly direction from Indian Lake, north of Dayton, Ohio, to the Ohio River, generally following the course of the Great Miami River.



If you live in the orange area, you're served by the GMVBA:



Greater Cincinnati Water Works puts it through this filtering process before it gets to your house.



Since this aquifer doesn't cross any international boundaries, the UNESCO Convention on transboundary aquifers doesn't apply to us much here, but we do have a consortium that protects the aquifer, dealing mostly with pollution issues.



These are the areas protected by various municipalites nearby:



Just for good measure, here are some more maps of groundwater resources for the whole state of Ohio:

One Month

The wiki turned one month old on Sunday. Interestingly over this past weekend, the wiki received both its 100th page and its first bit of spam. I added one more anti-spam plugin that should help prevent any more spam from accumulating. So far so good.

From the November 2008 Elections page I created pages for each of the four Hamilton County Commission candidates and also one for Steve Chabot and one for Steve Driehaus.

All of these articles are just stubs right now. They will need a lot more information to become more useful, but we'll get there eventually. I'm happy with how far the wiki has come in just one month.

November 2008 Elections

I made a page today for the November 2008 Elections. I would like to get information on as many of the candidates as possible. Ongoing wikification of elections is something I would like to continue.

The page also contains the Local Issues that will be on the ballot on November 4th.

Recent Wiki Work

I haven't posted in several days but I have been contributing to the wiki here and there. I haven't been staying on pace with answering The Big Here questions though.

I added the first of what I hope will eventually become numerous articles for neighborhoods: College Hill, Madisonville, Pleasant Ridge, and Westwood. The articles are all fairly short. I created them because those four are mentioned in this article about form-based codes as being neighborhoods that are interested in pursuing FBCs. I hope the articles will grow and encompass much more information about each neighborhood over time.

I also added an article for Fifth Third Bank because I wanted to see who was in its board and administration, but that hasn't yielded anything particularly interesting yet.

Yesterday I created articles for The Planning Department, and some Charterites. I also created an article for Milton Dohoney.

I addition to many other minor edits, the main strategy I've been using is to take each article on the In The News page one by one and add the relevant information to each page. Once I've edited every page that seems like it could possibly use the information from the new item, I remove the item from the list of news stories. I try not to let any news story older than a month sit on that page, although I think I'm digging up articles fast than I'm wikifying them.

Today I got started on wikifying the story on the Fifth & Race site, but I haven't gotten all the way done yet.