Wikishire

Wikishire
Type of site
Gazetteer
Available in British English
Slogan(s) Wikishire is where you may find the best of Britain and Ireland
Website wikishire.co.uk
Alexa rank Increase 2,066,222 (February 2016)[1]
Commercial No
Registration Yes
Launched July 2010
Current status Active
Content license
CC BY-SA

Wikishire is an on-line gazetteer of Great Britain, Ireland and associated territories. The site describes itself thus:"Wikishire is where you are; whether you are on the Shetland islands or the South Shetland Islands or the places between, Wikishire is a growing guide on all you need to know about the British and Irish lands". To accompany the gazetteer there is an interactive map of the British Isles based on OpenStreetMap.

Wikishire organises its articles on the basis of the historic counties and ridings of Britain and Ireland and insists that articles are written in British or Irish dialects of English.

History

The site was launched in July 2010 and as of September 2016 contained over 15,000 articles.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/15/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.