[conservatism_IS_compassion]

a plea to add more interactive, web 2.0 features

I have wondered about the Wikipedia issue.

I think the Wiki software, and even content, is more or less open source. If that's true, I'd wonder if John Robinson could grab a copy of Wikipedia, put it on a server, and allow us to edit it into a frankly conservative version of the "objective" (read, "liberal") original.

I can however envision that causing flame wars and opuses, since it would entail codifying precisely what conservatism is and is not. Conceivably it could be made to have several different flavors, so that factions could be represented in parallel universes sharing a common body of noncontroversial reference material . . .

[Tree of Liberty]

Already being done (though not by Jim or John Robinson).

[Albion Wilde]

I'd wonder if John Robinson could grab a copy of Wikipedia, put it on a server, and allow us to edit it into a frankly conservative version of the "objective" (read, "liberal") original.

Wouldn't be prudent to lift another site's contents.

Someone may have answered this already, but there is a site started by Phyllis Schlafly's son, Andrew Schlafley, that is providing content from the conservative point of view: Conservapedia.

To date, it is tiny, with only 16,000 entries, compared to Wikipedia's nearly 2 million. Here is Wikipedia's critique of Conservapedia.