Over the past few years, a new software has emerged as an information superpower: the wiki. Wikipedia popularized this unique online community strategy and proved its efficiency. Now Wikipages.com intends to do the same with business directory information.

Wikipages.com is an online business directory focusing on New York City. Born a little over a year ago, Wikipages already has over one thousand entries for NYC and several for other major US cities. Using MediaWiki, the website includes discussion pages and a community portal page, so anyone can add their input. The site has connections to the blogosphere, from its own blog, blog.wikipages.com, and nyc.metblogs.com, where Wikipages co-founder Tracey blogs regularly. Wikipages has the potential to expand exponentially as people join its community. While still in the beginning stage, this growing site is part of the wiki trend.

Wikis bring a democratic element to a website, including anyone’s input with ease. In the future, more wikis and other open source technologies could replace the former totalitarian website methods. Wikis have the advantage of displaying a whole community’s knowledge, rather than that of just a few select people. Easy to use and edit, wikis have rapidly increased in popularity in a short timespan. With wide accessibility and scope, wikis deserve their newfound info-giant status.

What Wikipages.com seeks now is more people to add to its community. With a strong community, Wikipages will utilize its democratic platform to create a constantly-growing, easily-changeable source of information.