Vienna History Wiki (Wien Geschichte Wiki) is a freely accessible
online
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collection of
reference work
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s in
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
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**Ger ...
about the history of
Vienna
en, Viennese
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. The main content of the wiki are persons, buildings, topographical objects (streets, parks, waters, districts...), organisations, events and other items (such as special German expressions used in Vienna). It is written by Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna and Vienna City Library staff as well as external experts, and all content is subject to an editorial process and approved before publication.
Background
The "Vienna History Wiki" was built up by the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna (MA8) and the Vienna City Library (MA 9). It was opened to the public in 2014. It is a historical knowledge platform of the City of Vienna aiming at combining knowledge from the city administration with those of external experts. Amongst several departments of the City of Vienna, other project partners are continuously working on the content, e. g. the
Vienna Museum
The Vienna Museum (german: Wien Museum or ''Museen der Stadt Wien'') is a group of museums in Vienna consisting of the museums of the history of the city. In addition to the main building in Karlsplatz and the Hermesvilla, the group includes nume ...
,
Jewish Museum Vienna
The Jüdisches Museum Wien, trading as ''Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH'' or the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria. The museum is present on two locations, in the Palais Eskeles in the Doroth ...
, Association for the History of Vienna, Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Environmental History,
Austrian Mediathek.
Cornerstone of the wiki are more than 27,000 articles (31,000 entries) of the six-volume encyclopedia „Historisches Lexikon Wien" edited by
Felix Czeike
Felix Czeike (21 August 1926 – 23 April 2006) was an Austrian historian and popular educator. He was an author and partly also editor of numerous publications on the history of Vienna and was the director of the . His main work is the six-volume ...
(2nd edition 2004).
The Vienna History Wiki uses
Semantic MediaWiki
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, where facts from the wiki pages are stored and can be retrieved inside the wiki as well as exported in different formats (e. g.
JSON
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or
RDF). Since 2021 is mainly uses
Schema.org
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as vocabulary for the
ontology
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Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exis ...
. The wiki is still growing, and demonstrates a satisfied user base
See also
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List of online encyclopedias
This is a list of well-known online encyclopedias—i.e., encyclopedias accessible or formerly accessible on the Internet.
The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones. Some online ency ...
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List of wikis
This article contains a list of notable wikis, which are websites that use wiki software, allowing users to collaboratively edit content and view old versions of the content. These websites use several different wiki software packages.
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References
External links
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Historical Societies
Austrian culture
History of Vienna
Austrian online encyclopedias
Semantic wikis
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