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saveMLAK is a
The project's collaboration with the
wiki
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designed to coordinate responses to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...
, focusing on protecting museums
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
, libraries
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, archives
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...
and kominkan
A , or citizens' public hall, is a kind of Japanese culture, Japanese cultural center. Kominkan provide structured learning programs in arts, sport, handiwork and cultural activities, to children, youth and aged people. They are generally funded an ...
s, or community centers. It was started in March 2011, a day after the earthquake and tsunami hit. Makoto Okamoto is the site's founder and main administrator. The wiki runs on the MediaWiki
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software, along with the extension Semantic MediaWiki
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.
In December 2011, the wiki had information on 19,500 facilities, 24,300 pages, and about 300 editors who made 101,200 edits.
Accolades
The project's collaboration with the Miyagi Miyagi may refer to:
Places
* Miyagi Prefecture, one of the 47 major divisions of Japan
* Miyagi, Gunma, a village in Japan, merged into Maebashi in 2004
*Miyagi District, Miyagi, a district in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Other uses
* Miyagi (surna ...
Prefectural Library was highlighted by researchers "as an example of support for libraries in the disaster area."
SaveMLAK was selected as the Semantic MediaWiki wiki of the month in June 2011. It received The Best Dataset Award on Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011.
Okamoto gave the keynote talk for the Wikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, f ...
2013 conference about saveMLAK.
References
External links
*{{Official site 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami MediaWiki websites Semantic wikis