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More perfect is a neat new wiki (currently still in beta), that enables more direct public involvement in coming up with ideas and collaborating on them to make something happen. | More perfect is a neat new wiki (currently still in beta), that enables more direct public involvement in coming up with ideas and collaborating on them to make something happen. | ||
Blog | ==Blog article== | ||
''01-Aug-2006'' | |||
[[Image:MorePerfectLogo.jpg|left|200px]][[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 [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_New_Seattle_Center The New Seattle Center]) to more sweeping (such as [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Animal_rights animal rights]); and | |||
* specific documents -- for example, the [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bill_of_Rights Bill of Rights], where the point is clarify the document and elicit more general engagement. | |||
While there is fairly little concrete detail about the structure of or motivations behind the project, 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, [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recent_Changes cruft-free RecentChanges page] (with full details behind a "Click for more details..." prompt); | |||
* a fairly detailed set of "[http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=What%27s_A_Wiki%3F Getting Started]" pages 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, [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Timothy Tim] and [http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Chad Chad], of listing specific "issues of interest to me" on user pages. | |||
[[category:Democracy]] | [[category:Democracy]] | ||