SaveMLAK
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saveMLAK is a wiki designed to coordinate responses to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, focusing on protecting museums, libraries, archives and kominkans, or community centers. It was started in March 2011, a day after the earthquake and tsunami hit. Makoto Okamoto is the site's founder and main administrator. The wiki runs on the MediaWiki software, along with the extension Semantic MediaWiki.
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| Available in | Japanese, English |
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| Revenue | Non-profit |
| URL | www |
| Users | 300 |
| Launched | March 12, 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | MediaWiki |
In December 2011, the wiki had information on 19,500 facilities, 24,300 pages, and about 300 editors who made 101,200 edits.[1]
Accolades
The project's collaboration with the Miyagi Prefectural Library was highlighted by researchers "as an example of support for libraries in the disaster area."[2]
SaveMLAK was selected as the Semantic MediaWiki wiki of the month in June 2011.[3] It received The Best Dataset Award on Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011.[4]
Okamoto gave the keynote talk for the Wikimania 2013 conference about saveMLAK.[5]
