ICANNWiki

ICANNWiki is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2005, dedicated to supporting the Internet community's collaborative development of wiki articles on ICANN and Internet Governance-related topics. It currently counts with over 8,500 articles,^[1] and has as its mission to provide neutral, third-party information, being an open platform governed by wiki values. ICANNWiki is not part of ICANN, being an entirely separate organization.

ICANNWiki

Founded	2005; 20 years ago (2005)
Type	501(c)3 organization
Focus	Organize information about ICANN and Internet Governance
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon, United States
Key people	Raymond King (founder)
Website	icannwiki.org

History

ICANNWiki was originally founded by Raymond King in 2005, with help from Brandon CS Sanders and John Stanton, with the belief that a public wiki could be of benefit to the greater ICANN community. The project debuted at ICANN 24 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The wiki was rebooted in 2010, with a focus on improving articles and standards.^[2]

Work

ICANNWiki is known within the Internet Governance community for innovating in its outreach, with caricatures of ICANN meeting attendants, decks of playing cards featuring community members, and recurring Edit-a-Thon events.^[3][4] ICANN itself has collaborated with the project in varied efforts of outreach and engagement, carried out in different regions of the world.^[5][6]