Welcome to RocWiki, the People's guide to Rochester, New York. This site is continually updated, expanded, and improved by people in Rochester, NY because they want to share what they love or loathe about their city. You can search the site by using the box on the upper right of every page, or you can use the pre-sorted links below to go to the most popular sections. We encourage you to learn more and would welcome your help. Since this is a community effort, please let us know if you have any concerns about the content of this site.
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RocWiki Tourists Guide to Rochester
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Oddities, Genesee River Valley
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Chat about Rochester, Events Board, Wiki Community
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Business in the Rochester Region
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Life with Kids, Pet Life, GLBT Community
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Our Comprehensive Guide — Rochester has a lot of cool little stores. Check them out!
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Housing Guide, Apartments, Residences
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Utilities, Government, Politics
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Summer Guide, Fall Guide, Winter Guide, Ethnic Festivals
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News
The RocWiki currently has 12661 pages and counting.
2010-10-29: RocWiki is now available with HTTP Secure.
2010-05-18: PeteB became the first contributor to do 20000 edits. He also has 2247 Created pages.
2010-04-16: RocWiki surpassed 100,000 edits with revision 38 of Lori's Natural Foods; alas, the Wiki is still not perfect.
2010-03-08: FrankAshcraft created a new section under play. Music Events has a template within the code commented at the top. Help is needed to add live music events around Rochester.
2010-02-15: BradMandell became second contributor to create 1000 Pages. He previously exceeded 670 file uploads and 9000 edits.
Check out the Wiki Community/History for older news.
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