Canadawiki
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Canadawiki is a hyperlinked collaborative knowledge base containing information about Canada and Canadians.
Launched in December of 2005, and powered by MediaWiki, Canadawiki was inspired by Wikipedia, but takes a less "encyclopaedic" and more closed approach. Canadawik is managed by The Civics Channel Inc., a non-profit Canadian educational foundation, in partnership with Northern Blue Publishing, who provide voluntary assistance and knowledge seeding.
The Executive Producer of Canadawiki is Alastair Sweeny.
Canadawiki is a copyrighted portal, and contains a number of proprietary databases and resource collections, including
- The CanLine Timeline Database
- The CanQuotes Database of Canadian Quotations
- The CanText Electronic Library
- The Top 1000 Canadian Events
- The Top 1000 Canadians