Posted on 07/06/2006 10:04:20 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection.
Jimmy Wales Political junkies who can't get enough of Daily Kos or RedState (depending on party preferences) may now have a new Web 2.0 toy in the form of Campaigns Wikia.
As with Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other wikis, contributors to Campaigns Wikia will be able to edit any section of the site, provided that they register for free accounts first.
Campaigns Wikia was unveiled, appropriately, on July 4, with an "open letter to the political blogosphere." Wales said he is targeting the masses of activists from every corner of political opinion who have made the Internet their home base.
Ever since Howard Dean's then-surprising Internet-based campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and the subsequent coverage of bloggers' presence at the major parties' national conventions, the use of the Web as a political tool has become an increasingly highbrow topic. If Campaigns Wikia is a success, Wales hopes that it will be a resource where voters can become more informed about current events and issues, he said.
Even though the so-called blogosphere is perhaps best known as a breeding ground for liberal rhetoric, Wales aims to make Campaigns Wikia a nonpartisan effort.
"Whoever you are and whatever you believe, you can share with me my sincere desire that the process starts to be about substance and thought, rather than style and image," he said.
While I'd agree that the "blogosphere" has lots of liberal rhetoric, I have no confidence that something related to Wikipedia will be "nonpartisan".
IMHO - "nonpartisan" = boring.
IMHO - "nonparisan = liberal.
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People who call themselves "nonpartisan" usually also read their poetry out loud in public.
In other words, a far-left agenda.
I thought Wikipedia was a political site.
ibtz=in before the zot
Agreed. Think of the respect the USA would have received from the rest of the world if we'd picked ourselves up, brushed ourselves off, and said, "No open society can guarantee perfect security. We have learned some lessons from this attack, but we will never give up the freedoms that make us great, even if it means we are attacked again. Instead, we will try our best to make sure that everyone in the world has the opportunity to share in our prosperity." Or something like that.
Yep. Nonpartisan. Glad that America's only goal is to garner international respect.
-PJ
Wow, I could write pages on The Cape Wind project and the Limousine Liberal hypocrisy.
Then more pages on the Texas Renewable Portfolio Standard signed into law by then Gov. George W. Bush that created a boom in the wind energy industry there...
And how about how certain endangered fish enjoy spawning near offshore oil platforms...
And Al Gore and Arianna Huffington leaving a Sierra Club Summit in SUVs??
It will be another Wikipedia, operated by the leftists, hijacked by the leftists, full of bias, and leftist propaganda.
The software/methodology that Wikipedia, etc. uses is collaborative web-based software written back in 1994/1995 by Ward Cunningham, which he named "Wiki Wiki", which is Hawaiian for "fast".
"Wikipedia founder launches second political site"
I don't think he cares, he found a new source of revenue and a new oppurtunity to make money.
And the leftists are one of the easiest groups to make money off of.
Think of them as the choir, you preach to them what they want to hear, and they will pay you for it.
so with this campaign wiki will we be able:
to finally convice liberals that it WAS about bill clinton raising his right hand and LYING
finally ask if hillary really IS a man? (or at least has the same style interest in women)
finally show how dan rather KNOWS the documents are fakes
The french really are surrender monkeys
homosexual marriage is only about acceptance of sex. Publish the homosexual agenda docuemnts in total.
Show Iraq IS better off today than it was under bill clinton
Show how bill clinton sold secrets to china
Global warming is a MYTH
>>IMHO - "nonpartisan" = boring.
>IMHO - "nonparisan = liberal.
IMO - "nonpartisan" = stealth partisan.
Is it a sigend copy??
Is it signed?? ;^)
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