2008-02-05: NicholasMoreau becomes our 100th registered member and helps Torontopedia! hit the century mark. Welcome Nicholas!
2007-12-31: FrankSaptel just informed us that Torontopedia was chosen as an example for explaining today's A.Word.A.Day—wiki. Wordsmith.org's A.Word.A.Day is read by tens of thousands of people around the world. Welcome wordsmiths and Happy New Year!
2007-09-25: KarolynCoorsh writes in the Bloor-Bay Town Crier (page 5) and Midtown Town Crier (page 8) community newspapers article titled "Site seeks everything you ever wanted to know about Toronto".
2007-09-16: Torontopedia hits the 1,000th page mark with the creation of Pleasant View Library by AmirSyed!
2007-09-12: Torontoist's Marc Lostracco's take on the Toronto Life roundup of our three City Blogs and one city wiki in Touting Bloghorns.
2007-08-15: Help wanted. Torontopedia! needs a logo. Visit the Logo Page to share your ideas and comments. Should we go with Rosanna Yau's current design?
2007-07-12: Carrie Brunet asks Won't you be my neighbour? - Article in The Annex Guardian community newspaper.
2007-07-07: The National Post's Dave McGinn interviewed us a while ago, today his article titled "Wiki to the city" appears on both page 13 of their Toronto Magazine and on the PostedToronto city blog.
2007-06-10: We made page 2 of The Annex Gleaner, "One-stop neighbourhood talk"! We hope that The Annex (and other) residents will help fill out our neighbourhood pages!!!
2007-05-25: The Liberty Gleaner community newspaper put us on their front page, "Two municipal idols craft Torontopedia.ca". Welcome to readers from the Liberty Village.
2007-04-30: A big welcome to readers of today's Toronto Star. The Star mentions the BlogTO article about spilling the beans about Torontopedia! We also reached our 500th page milestone today.
2007-04-25: There ends the soft launch... BlogTO outs Torontopedia! this morning with Torontopedia Needs YOU (Yes, YOU) blog entry. Welcome to all you BlogTO visitors. Jump right in, look around, the water's fine! Still have Questions, you can ask it on the FAQ page. — HimySyed
2007-04-19: Soft Launch. Sending as many emails as possible asking for help in seeding pages.
2007-04-16: Front Page was defaced but quickly reverted to last good copy. We'll take this Front Page defacing as a milestone that our seeding process is working! ;-)
2007-04-11: Finished initial Templates, Wiki is almost ready for soft launch
2007-02-22: Completed initial listing of neighbourhood pages with seed entries. Help needed in filling out details for any and all Neighbourhoods.
2007-02/03 By now, realization that the use of Wikipedia Content licensed under the GFDL sucks as a foundation for a community minded city wiki. All Torontopedia pages created using the GetWiki software as the wiki engine are abandoned. Torontopedia starts fresh. Spend March and early April in pre-soft-launch of Torontopedia! seeding pages, creating templates, and Torontoizing things.
2007-02-06 Somehow stumbled upon DavisWiki and spent the next few days contacting the founders and others who use the Project Sycamore wiki software to power their City Wikis.
2007-01-09 HiMY SYeD attends the first of the Toronto Wiki Tuesdays of the year and asks for help from the local wiki community in getting Torontopedia! launched. For the next month, using GetWiki, Torontopedia! is created and populated with Toronto-specific content taken from Wikipedia.
2006-12-27 While reading The Starfish and the Spider, Karen Sun and HiMY SYeD are inspired. The seed of the idea for a city wiki for Toronto, Ontario is planted.
2006-06-02: Rob Hyndman chats with Mesh volunteer extraordinaire Sacha Chua about ideas for a Toronto wiki then blogs the question, Is it time for a wiki for Toronto?
2006-04-01: Shawn Micallef pens a short piece in The Globe and Mail about Davis Wiki which then gets carried on the spacing wire.
