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==Description==
{{Size}}
This Wiki has been set-up by the UK Government Department
for {{tag|Environment}}, Food and Rural Affairs.  It is aimed at
developing the idea of an Environmental Contract.


==News==
'''[http://WebArchive.NationalArchives.gov.uk/20061021232803/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome defra wiki]''' was set-up by the 'Department for {{tag|Environment}}, {{tag|Food}} and {{tag|Outdoors|Rural}} Affairs' (defra) – a ministerial {{tag|government}} department of the {{tag|United Kingdom}} of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  It was aimed at stakeholders developing the idea of an Environmental Contract.


This experiment in colaborative, community-based public policy creation was halted soon after it started because of large amounts of vandalism. See [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13540661,00.html Web Policy Goes Wrong].  
;News
:"A Government minister's attempt to get web users to help form policy has backfired....Administrators were forced to withdraw the page after it was defaced by more than 170 people over a frenzied few hours."
It was experiment in {{tag|collaborative}}, community-based public {{tag|policy}}, but was halted soon after it started because of large amounts of [[vandal]]ism. See Sky News article: [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13540661,00.html Web Policy Goes Wrong].<sup>[''permanently dead link'']</sup>
:"A Government minister's attempt to get web users to help form policy has backfired .... Administrators were forced to withdraw the page after it was defaced by more than 170 people over a frenzied few hours."
 
The wiki was set up with the {{tag|JotSpot}} wiki engine, and was originally {{tag|OpenEdit|open editing}}, but was subsequently changed to a registration process requiring {{tag|ConfirmEmail|e-mail confirmation}}.  defra wiki is now {{tag|dead}}, presumably after JotSpot was acquired by [[:Category:Google|Google]].  The ''Internet Archive WaybackMachine'' at [[Archive.org]] created 56 captures of the wiki home page from 09 September 2006, [https://web.Archive.org/web/20081205000000*/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome] the last being 05 December 2008. [https://web.Archive.org/web/20081205145258/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome]  Little or no other content of the wiki has been archived.
 
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Latest revision as of 20:03, 8 November 2022

defra logo - crown copyright Defra wiki
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Founded by:
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Language: English
Edit mode: ConfirmEmail
Wiki engine: JotSpot
Wiki license: Site retains copyright
Main topic: Government
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defra wiki was set-up by the 'Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (defra) – a ministerial government department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was aimed at stakeholders developing the idea of an Environmental Contract.

News

It was experiment in collaborative, community-based public policy, but was halted soon after it started because of large amounts of vandalism. See Sky News article: Web Policy Goes Wrong.[permanently dead link]

"A Government minister's attempt to get web users to help form policy has backfired .... Administrators were forced to withdraw the page after it was defaced by more than 170 people over a frenzied few hours."

The wiki was set up with the JotSpot wiki engine, and was originally open editing, but was subsequently changed to a registration process requiring e-mail confirmation. defra wiki is now dead, presumably after JotSpot was acquired by Google. The Internet Archive WaybackMachine at Archive.org created 56 captures of the wiki home page from 09 September 2006, [1] the last being 05 December 2008. [2] Little or no other content of the wiki has been archived.