The Local Government & Municipal (LGAM) Knowledge Base is a Wiki created for the use of and to promote collaboration between Local Councils, Water Authorities and associated organisations, and to help them try to save money by sharing information instead of buying it. It is primarily aimed at an Australian & New Zealand audience, but users from other countries are more than welcome to join, and are encouraged to reuse any useful information they find on the site. It is a place to post any information† that may be of interest to Councils, and to search for information already posted. There are currently 2350+ pages of information on the site.
Please feel free to add information and pages and to contribute to the forum.
If you have any suggestions about how to improve the site PLEASE leave a comment in the Suggestion Box.
There is quite a bit of information already on the site. To find it you can either;
(a) use the search window at the top right of the screen
(b) use the side menu to the left of the screen
(c) click on one of the randomly generated links below & navigate from there.
Random Pages
There are lot of articles on this site and it isn't always easy to find them. This is especially true if you don't know they are there. The links below change every time you access the home page, so if you keep an eye on them, you may see something of interest you didn't know was on the site.
Gully Inlet
Booster Pump Station
WA Local Government GIS Focus Group
Moorabool Shire Council
Copyright
RUL
Economic Development
Water Meter
Paroo Shire Council
ADWG
Armidale Dumaresq Council
Riva DS
Corowa Shire Council
Employment
Central Goldfields Shire Council
Sewer Pipe
Asset Planning and Management Framework
Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council
Kingston City Council
Active Asset
Mosman Park Town Council
Guide Post
TechnologyOne Works & Assets
MAMS
Asset Condition Assessment
Asset Class
Surveying
Owner
Wodonga City Council
Brighton Council
January 2010 Update
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17 new members joined the site in January, bringing the total to 194.
The site now contains 2333 pages of information, and as of 31 January, 8,626 different people have visited the site on a total of 15,244 occasions and viewed 98,284 pages.
A new link (Photo Library) has been added to the side menu, and a dozen or so images of typical council assets have been uploaded to the site.
Australian Municipal Photo Library
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Darron Passlow, one of the more frequent contributors to this site has suggested here and in other forums that a Visual Library for Asset Condition Rating would be a very useful tool for local government. The idea of the library is to build up a collection of photos of assets in various conditions that could be used to develop a series of condition assessment guidelines similar to the Corowa Shire Council Sealed Roads Condition Inspection Booklet, but for all asset types for which a visual inspection can be used to determine asset condition. Preparing condition inspection guidelines is not a simple task, and a bit of thought will need to go into how the project is set up, BUT taking photos is pretty easy, and there are many other uses for photos of Council assets & activities. The Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base is all about Councils sharing information & encouraging the creation of an Australian Municipal Photo Library is the sort of thing that we as a group should be doing. A new link has been added to the side menu titled "Photo Library". If you have any photos that you would like to contribute to the project please visit the page & start uploading.
ListPages Module Changes
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This won't mean a lot to most users of the site, especially if you aren't very IT orientated, but developers of the host site Wikidot have made a couple of minor changes to how the "ListPages module" works.
Many of the lists on this site are automatically generated using the ListPages module, which is fine and dandy, but usually of no interest to most users, even that select few that make edits to pages.
However if you happen to make a change to a page with a list, even if a change that has nothing to do with the list, you might find when the page is recompiled it looks very different. Don't Panic, and please don't be put of editing pages and contributing to the site, nothing too serious has happened.
It will get fixed as soon as it is noticed, but if you are keen and proactive you can fix the error yourself. Just move "[[/module]] down a line, e.g.
Change the code that looks a bit like this ….
[[module ListPages order="random" limit="20" separate="false" tags="-hide"]]
%%linked_title%%[[/module]]
To look a bit more like this ….
[[module ListPages order="random" limit="20" separate="false" tags="-hide"]]
%%linked_title%%
[[/module]]
Understand? If not it doesn't really matter. The main thing to remember is that all contributions to the site are very appreciated and it is impossible to break anything or delete anything permanently, so go for it!!
