Jimmy Wales Starting Campaign Wikis

Billosaur writes "Jimmy Wales, self-described creator of the Wikipedia, is apparently trying to bring the functionality offered by the Internet encyclopedia to a new realm: politics and political campaigns. He is starting a new website, the Campaigns Wikia, which 'has the goal of bringing together people from diverse political perspectives who may not share much else, but who share the idea that they would rather see democratic politics be about engaging with the serious ideas of intelligent opponents, about activating and motivating ordinary people to get involved and really care about politics beyond the television soundbites.' Sounds intriguing, but one has to wonder if it will be plagued by internecine feuding, punditry, and political manipulation."

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Already being done

[A]

Pete Ashdown, running for the US Senate in Utah against Orin Hatch, has had a wiki for most of his campaign. http://vote.peteashdown.org/wiki/

Religion wiki

[daniil]

from the how-long-until-the-religion-wiki dept.

What, like this? Or this?

Re:am I too cinical about this?

[markhb]

I wish I had been around in the 19th century, when politicians campaigned by giving out free booze; most people then voted for whoever handed out the best whiskey. Now, we get to listen to endless ads about nothing, and don't even get to get hammered on their dime!