In praise of Wiki New Zealand

Hats off to the team behind Wiki New Zealand, an exciting project to make data about our country accessible and understandable. The site is packed with graphs, charts and maps, all of them clean and clear. The design is outstanding..

It’s already a fabulous resource. No doubt schools can make great use of it. And as a journalist I’ll be checking facts there.

Wiki’s were a big deal five or six years ago. They are a great way to share data, particularly when people collaborate. Since their peak, wikis have fallen out of favour, mainly because many people find them difficult to use. Although the biggest wiki of them all, Wikipedia, goes from strength to strength.

The Wiki New Zealand team seem ready to do all the hard work, so if you want to contribute, it’s a matter of handing over raw information and not knocking it into shape.