The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is a City wiki

City wiki

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 of the German town Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 and its surroundings, which is the largest in the world.

History

It was founded by the former pupil Hauke Löffler on the 22nd of Juli 2004. The first version was running PmWiki

PmWiki

PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...

, later the wiki was moved to Mediawiki

MediaWiki

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.
It was mention by dpa and on german television (ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

).

It is hosted by the Voluntary association

Voluntary association

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 "Bildungsverein Region Karlsruhe e.V." (e.V. = Eingetragener Verein

Eingetragener Verein

Eingetragener Verein is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany and Austria. While any group may be called a Verein, registration as eingetragener Verein holds many legal benefits because a registered association may legally function as a corporate body rather than just...

).

Content

The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe contains information on all topics that are related to Karlsruhe, it provides detailed information and links to geography, nature, history, politics, religion, education, culture, social affairs, sports, business and transport.

It also provides information on the subject of tourism and leisure destinations, gastronomy guide, clubs and venues, and acts specifically as a calendar of events.

The only relevant criterion is the reference to Karlsruhe.

In October 2008 the Stadtwiki for an English and a French edition was expanded, in September 2009 at a Russian edition.

There are over 22.000 articles and 15.000 pictures by over 3000 authors.

License

Content is availably under an Non-commercial

Non-commercial

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 Creative Commons license

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(by-nc-sa).

External links

German version English version