Cvillepedia cville_mediawiki https://cvillepedia.org/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.39.3 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Cvillepedia Cvillepedia talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Widget Widget talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Main Page 0 1 70765 70764 2023-08-18T13:58:05Z Meekohi 722 typo 70765 wikitext text/x-wiki <div id="mainpage"></div> <!-- Beginning of header section --> {| style="width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc" | style="width:56%;color:#000" | {| style="width:280px;border:solid 0px;background:none" |- | style="width:280px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;color:#000" | <div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000;font-weight:bold;">[[Cvillepedia:About|Welcome to Cvillepedia!]]</div> <div>''The Charlottesville-Albemarle collaborative encyclopedia''</div> <div id="articlecount" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;">Currently [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles<br> | |- |}<!-- Portals Follow --> | style="width:11%;font-size:95%;color:#000" | *[[Albemarle County|Albemarle]] *[[Charlottesville]] *[[COVID-19 Emergency]] | style="width:11%;font-size:95%" | *[[Portal:Neighborhoods|Neighborhoods]] *[[Portal:Government|Government]] *[[Portal:Development|Development]] *[[Portal:Infrastructure|Infrastructure]] | style="width:11%;font-size:95%" | *[[Portal:History|History]] *[[Portal:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] *[[Portal:Media|Media]] *'''[[:Category:Portals|All portals]]''' |}<!-- End Portals --> {| style="border-spacing:8px;margin:0px -8px" | class="MainPageBG" style="width:50%;border:1px solid #cef2e0;background-color:#f5fffa;vertical-align:top;color:#000" | {| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top;background-color:#f5fffa" ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cef2e0;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">What is Cvillepedia?</h2> |- |'''Cvillepedia''' is a wiki dedicated to sharing and building community knowledge and history about the people, places, and events in [[Charlottesville]] and [[Albemarle County]]. This site is built with the same software as Wikipedia and is a free, public, collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit and improve. On June 1, 2023, Charlottesville Tomorrow's board of directors gave Cvillepedia to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library for continued stewardship. ''Take a look at a May 2021 report from FCG Consulting called [https://cvillepedia.org/images/FCG_Consulting_Cvillepedia_Report_05192021.pdf Recommendations for Hosting, Supporting, and Managing Cvillepedia]'' |} {| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top;background-color:#f5fffa" ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cef2e0;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">How you can contribute</h2> |- |[https://www.cvillepedia.org/Special:RequestAccount Click here to create a new account and get started!] '''Don't be afraid to edit''' – anyone can [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing edit] almost every page, and we are encouraged to be bold! There is a visual editor that can allow you to make changes easily and keep this site up-to-date. We can always use more people to fixing spelling and grammar, and to rewrite for readability. We also want you to add content that is cited and verifiable. If you wish to add new facts, please check the [[Cvillepedia:Guidelines|Cvillepedia Guidelines]] and try to provide references so they may be verified. Remember – you can't break Cvillepedia; all edits can be reversed, fixed or improved later. Cvillepedia is allowed to be imperfect. So go ahead and edit an article and try out the visual editor! |} <!-- Start of right-column --> | class="MainPageBG" style="width:50%;border:1px solid #cedff2;background-color:#f5faff;vertical-align:top" | {| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top;background-color:#f5faff" ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Popular Articles</h2> |- |} {| style="font-size:1.2em;" | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:1938-Anatomical_Theater.JPG|center|frameless|100px]] |A [[list of demolished buildings and structures in Charlottesville]], such as UVA's Anatomical Theater demolished in [[1939]]. |- | | style="border-bottom:1px solid lightgrey;" | |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Brand-clip.jpg|center|frameless|100px]] |Charlottesville folk artist [[Frances Brand]] painted nearly 150 portraits she considered notable in her "Firsts" series. |- | | style="border-bottom:1px solid lightgrey;" | |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:2020-Sena Magill-small.jpg|center|frameless|100px]] |Sena Magill became the first member of [[City Council]] to resign in many decades. Who was the last? The answer is on cvillepedia! |- | | style="border-bottom:1px solid lightgrey;" | |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:JBond2.jpg|center|frameless|100px]] |[[Julian Bond]] (1940-2015) worked at the University of Virginia as a history professor from 1992-2012, while simultaneously serving as Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). |- | | style="border-bottom:1px solid lightgrey;" | |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Voting-update.jpg|frameless|center|100px]] | The [[Charlottesville Electoral Board]] is considering changes to the precinct boundaries that would change two polling places, affecting about 40 percent of the city's registered voters. Public hearing will be held in January 2023. |- | | style="border-bottom:1px solid lightgrey;" | |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | [[File:20141025-landmark.jpg|frameless|center|100x200px]] |The [[Dewberry Hotel]] is a partially constructed building on the Downtown Mall, proposed as a nine-story, 100-room luxury hotel. The idea was to build a $30 million, nine-story luxury boutique hotel. Construction was abandoned in January 2009. The Charlottesville City Council directed staff in January 2016 to pursue legal action to either force construction or to force public acquisition through eminent domain. |} |} __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ 6po3gwprjuf7ksntrokvqjz5bhlrgua