Oct 23, 2026, 7:27 AM

@tezoatlipoca @jalefkowit local wiki *is* a wonderful idea! A group of us had it more than 20 years ago... used a London-based wiki project called OpenGuides, which was in a few other cities. As a front-end to a community wireless network captive portal, a hybrid of Sonoma's NoCat and Montreal's Île Sans Fil router firmware.

Didn't ask for login or details, would just briefly intercept your first request to port 80 and show you the local wiki, centered on the AP you'd just connected to

We had some Arts Council England funding to develop it, as "Wireless London". Handful of nodes in the East End, really. It's how i got involved with starting OpenStreetmap, because the community network / local wiki needed a basemap

Nice to reflect back on how much we managed to do in a time of resource scarcity ;)

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