Showing posts with label wiki adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wiki adventure. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2008

Week 5 - Wikis ..... Adventure

As I'm currently living in Grafton I jumped over to the Wikipedia entry for Grafton and was left thinking hmmmm, someone has gone in and done a very good job here already so then I decided to find entries for every town I have ever lived in (bound to be quite an adventure as I'm rather prone to wander...!).
Anyway, here goes......
Elanora Heights ; Narara ; Herons Creek/Kendall ; Griffith University / Nathan / Mt Gravatt ; Maroubra ; Clovelly ; Coogee ; Bronte ; Randwick ; Narrabri ; Bellata ; Mount Victoria/Blue Mountains ; Walgett ; Collarenebri; Tamworth/Calala/Tintinhull; Grafton .
Whew! What a trip.
I was quite curious to see if there was an entry for Herons Creek as this is a tiny village just north of Kendall & Kew and the closest place of habitation to the farm I grew up on. Herons Creek has a timber mill which serves the local industry - many is the time a timber jinker has given me a lift home from the bus stop out on the highway! Thinking about it though and really taking a solid look at what is on Wikipedia as far as towns and cities go, most of this information is provided by clever Councils/LGAs seeking to establish an online informational link for people who want to know about that place. For the Port Macquarie-Hastings Shire Council, their wikipedia pages detail the main towns and industry within the area from a Council-based tourism point of view. A little place like Herons Creek is off the map and simply doesn't cut it as a tourist destination - I have to admit to being quite happy when I left the area - so doesn't get a mention. Which I guess brings me around to the point that you really need to think carefully about what you're putting out there on the web. Getting everything and anything out there is not necessarily a good thing, after all what are we trying to achieve by doing this?
So, should I add a page to Wikipedia about Herons Creek? Maybe. But I think that if I did I would focus on the industry side of things and link it to the Timber Industry and perhaps also the historical angle for the Hastings area with a neat tie in to Wauchope and TimberTown rather than to the LGA.