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More Perfect

01-Aug-2006

More Perfect is a commercial venture intending to get people talking about legal and policy issues in the United States. More specifically, it's an experiment in wiki-style, speculative, non-binding policy discussion based around

• specific issues -- ranging from the local (such as maintaining the vitality and relevance of Seattle Center [1]) to more sweeping (such as animal rights [2]); and
• specific documents -- for example, the Bill of Rights [3], where the point is clarify the document and elicit more general engagement.

While there is fairly little concrete detail about the structure or motivations of the project founders, the wiki seems open and inviting by design and text is available under a Creative Commons CCASL license.

More Perfect also has a few properties of interest to wiki developers, most notably

• a streamlined, cruft-free RecentChanges page [4] (with full details behind a "Click for more details..." prompt);
• a fairly detailed set of "Getting Started" pages [5] which, while too long and text-heavy to really be of much use, represent a good attempt at creating an invitation to participate; and
• a convention started by the founders, Tim [6] and Chad [7], of listing specific "issues of interest to me" on user pages.