A project led by a UK government agency to harness the power of Wikipedia to share environmental knowledge worldwide is opening a new front in the battle for open source, open data government. The original Wikipedia grew from nothing in 2011 to more than four million articles today, through the goodwill of volunteers worldwide and the robustness and ease of use of its collaborative editing software. Now this same open source software – WikiMedia – is being used by the Environment Agency in England and Wales to collate and share information on river restoration projects across Europe and the world – generated by policy makers, engineers, ecologists, planners and others involved in restoring rivers.

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