Hello there! I’m the administrator of Bluepages, a new wiki-based website with the goal of collaboratively building a historical directory of the world. The long-term goal is to create detailed, well-sourced encyclopedic articles about the history of every place on earth, like this. You might think of it as an effort to fill an empty space in the Internet’s free knowledge ecosystem between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, drawing on the great accomplishments of both while providing something entirely new to the world. Hopefully, Bluepages will become a useful resource for OpenStreetMap editors, and vice versa.

Bluepages is only a few months old, and we’re still trying to build up a community of contributors and establish ways of doing things. We want to collaborate with OpenStreetMap as much as possible, especially because most people who are interested in OpenStreetMap will probably be interested in our site, too. If you have the technical skills to help integrate OpenStreetMap data into our site, if you have ideas for how to make Bluepages a better site, or if you just want to join our community, please reach out. You can contact me directly here.