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{{DISPLAYTITLE:defra wiki}}
{{Wiki
{{Wiki
|logo              = [[Image:DEFRA UK Ministry Logo.gif]]
|logo              = [[Image:DEFRA UK Ministry Logo.gif]]
|URL              = http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome
|URL              = http://wayback.archive.org/web/20081205145258*/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome
|recentchanges URL = http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/System/Pages/Revisions?target=%2FWikiHome%2FEnvironmentContract
|recentchanges URL = No <!--http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/System/Pages/Revisions?target=%2FWikiHome%2FEnvironmentContract-->
|wikinode URL      = No
|wikinode URL      = No
|status            = Active
|status            = Dead
|language          = English
|language          = English
|editmode          = OpenEdit
|editmode          = OpenEdit
|engine            = JotSpot
|engine            = JotSpot
|license          = Site retains copyright
|maintopic        = Government
|maintopic        = Government
}}
}}
==Description==
'''defra wiki''' was set-up by the 'Department for {{tag|Environment}}, Food and Rural Affairs' (defra) – a {{tag|government}} ministry department of the {{tag|United Kingdom}} of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  It was aimed at developing the idea of an Environmental Contract.
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==
;News
It was experiment in colaborative, community-based public policy, but was halted soon after it started because of large amounts of vandalism.  See Sky News article: [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13540661,00.html Web Policy Goes Wrong]. {{deadEL}}
:"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."


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].  
The wiki was set up with the {{tag|JotSpot}} wiki engine, but is now {{tag|dead}}, presumably after JotSpot was aquired by [[:Category:Google|Google]].  The [[Internet Archive WaybackMachine]] created 56 captures of the site from 09 September 2006, [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20081205145258*/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome] the last being 05 December 2008. [http://web.archive.org/web/20081205145258/http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome]
:"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."

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