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Homeless Wiki Resources

Homeless resource wikis are revolutionizing the use of social services resources, allowing the whole community to be responsible for content.
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People are using wiki technology in lots of ways to help each other out.

Starting in San Francisco, in early 2007, social workers and lawyers
got together and built a wiki to host homeless resources -- SFHomeless.net lists all the known service providers plus using wiki
categories, including Food, Shelter, Veterans, etc.

In June 2009 Los Angeles followed San
Francisco: LAHomeless.org.

Last week Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales helped launch
tampabayhomeless.wikia.com in his hometown.

Homeless resources wikis are revolutionizing the use
of social services resources, getting the whole community responsible for
content.

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