WikiCity Adds Free Classified Ads Serving Over 22K Communities

OMAHA, Neb., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- WikiCity, which provides hyper-local
content serving over 22,000 cities, towns, and villages -- created,
controlled, and edited by local citizen journalists - today unveiled its free
classified ad marketplace.

WikiCity's new classified ad engine offers a nationally-syndicated marketplace
to serve ads to its local communities across the U.S. However, WikiCity's
marketplace is different - not just because it reaches so many communities
that are typically underserved in this space, but because it's easy-to-use
interface offers built-in feedback and moderation controls to help ensure a
healthy marketplace.

Much like Wikipedia, WikiCity is a free wiki, and anyone can contribute.
However, WikiCity further differentiates itself because it is designed to
promote local community, commerce, tourism, and everyday life within the towns
it serves - thus welcoming content that is typically not suited for Wikipedia.
"WikiCity nurtures a free, collaborative resource about every town it serves.
The site is a collection of local facts, figures, businesses, and opinions
that will continue to grow in size and usefulness with each edit," says
WikiCity co-founder Pat Lazure. "The decentralized model gives users a unique
opportunity to contribute in a way that suits them best, albeit promoting
their favorite local business, sharing an opinion, recapping the big game, or
chronicling historical landmarks and traditions within their community. With
the addition of our classified ad marketplace, we expand upon these offerings
in an effort to further benefit the communities we serve."

About WikiCity: Founded by Pat Lazure and Rohit Keshwani, WikiCity provides
unique local content on places, events, and people who would be of interest to
those associated with any of its 22,000 U.S. towns (For example: Wahoo, NE,
Machias, ME, or Red Wing, MN). It serves these communities much like a local
blog, yet using the same open source MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia;
any of its readers are allowed to contribute content. By providing
town-specific content and other topical resources including local business
listings, news, weather, and classified ads; WikiCity transforms people from
content readers to content publishers; allowing local users to enhance their
town's pages by adding deep community content that interests them most.
WikiCity is located at www.WikiCity.com.

Contacts: Pat Lazure, Co-Founder; (402) 541-3181, pat@wikicity.com

SOURCE WikiCity

Pat Lazure, Co-Founder of WikiCity, +1-402-541-3181, pat@wikicity.com