Check out news coverage of Oakland Wiki and other media about our events here!
In the News (and blogs! :))
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2015-05-23: Tree Project Aims to Put the Oak Back in Oakland New Your Times (link to Jack London Oak entry)
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2014-06-08: Tweet with Oakland's next mayor SF Chronicle (talks about relationship between #oakmtg, Oakland Wiki, & other Oakland-based civic stuff)
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2014-05-30: 50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Oakland Movoto.com (though they're wrong about the cranes)
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2014-05-15: "Oakland Wiki puts 'community brain' online." KALW
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2014-05-12: The Eastern Shore bff.fm
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2014-05-06: "How to Write an Oakland Trend Piece (Community Voices)" Oakland Local (links to Brooklynization of Oakland and Unpopular NYTimes Articles about Oakland)
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2014-04-29: "The Benefits of Sharing" East Bay Express (links to East Bay ShareFest)
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2014-04-03: "If Oakland Were ‘The Hunger Games’" Next City
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2014-03-21: Mountain View Cemetery newsletter Spring 2014 (photo + info about Nathan W. Spaulding)
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2014-03-03: Oakland tech community participates in international hackathon Oakland North
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2014-02-28: Oakland Heritage Alliance honors partners in preservation (Community Voices) Oakland Local
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2014-02-27: Oakland's Blue Bottle Cafe Blurs Work and Leisure Metropolis Magazine (reference link for the W. C. Morse Building)
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2014-02-14: OpenGov Voices: LocalWiki turns open local data into open local knowledge by mk30
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2014-01-26: Heritage Alliance honors its Partners in Preservation Oakland Tribune Annalee Allen (who now knows that it's a lot of people who make the Wiki happen, but wrote column from press release below)
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2014-01-20: Oakland Heritage Alliance has named Oakland Wiki as a winner of a 2014 Partners in Preservation award!
eekiv and Gene wrote the application, but lots of people should be on the award -
2014-01-18: Website aims to record everything about Oakland Oakland Tribune by Matt Artz
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2014-01-17: A tour of Oakland Wiki San Jose Mercury News
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2013-12-09: Site of Oakland's Whole Foods has complex history Oakland Tribune by Annalee Allen
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2013-11-21: Oakland moves forward with plans for Orwellian surveillance complex, Russia Today
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2013-10-30: The Tile Mosaic Art Trash Cans of Oakland, Laughing Squid
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2013-10-21: The Sunny Side of Mass Surveillance, The Atlantic Cities
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2013-10-14: Privacy Fears as Surveillance Grows in Cities, The New York Times
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2013-03-19: Democratizing Knowledge with Oakland Wiki
- 2013-03-05: Open Data Day + LocalWiki = <3 - Localwiki Blog
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2013-01-25: Oakland tech community hosts International Open Data Day hackathon in East Oakland - Oakland North
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2013-01-18: Oakland Wiki hosts first in a series of Local History Editathons! - Localwiki Blog
- 2013-01-14: Weekly Oakland Wiki Edit-a-thons start at the History Room - Oakland North
Media
- Oakland Wiki presentation at Feb. 2013 Five Minutes of Fame at the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco.
Cross-posted Oakland Wiki content
This is content that was originally written in Oakland Wiki and cross-posted by others in accordance with our license.
- Black History Month: How, where to celebrate the next 28 days in and around Oakland - Oakland Local, 1/31/2013
Oakland Wiki embedded in other sites
- The Longfellow Community Association mapped Longfellow businesses on Oakland Wiki and is now embedding that map on their site.
- The Sharing Cities Network is embedding the Oakland Wiki map of the sharing landscape made during the 2013 Oakland Map Jam on the Oakland city page.
