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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Wiki Edit #2: Westborough, MA

I just completed my second wiki edit for my hometown of Westborough, Massachusetts. As I tried to think about how I wanted to contribute to the wiki I started thinking to myself who I thought would be using wikipedia to try to find out about my town. First, I thought the most hits probably come from individuals looking for historical figures such as Eli Whitney. However, I couldn't help but think a lot of individuals who look up Westborough, Massachusetts are probably potential homeowners or individuals thinking about moving to New England but not sure of where to settle. I thought it was important to include some information that would help them try to determine whether Westborough would be a good fit for them. While I had sort of done this with my first wiki edit with the school system, I continued by putting up data discussing the religious organizations in the town, the leisure and cultural activites, and a short section on crime in the town. Oddly enough, I also found out that not only was our town ranked one of the 100 Best Places to Live in 2005 by Money Magazine but also one of the 100 Best Places to Retire 2005 by Money Magazine.
While I lived in Westborough for 18 years and thought it was fairly boring, evidently these people at Money Magazine think the town is a pretty hip place to live. I posted both of the articles discussing these rankings in the external links section of the wiki. That is about all I did on this wiki edit. I hope that my additions helped round out te wiki definition for my town which was mostly discussing the history.

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