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"Wiki the Vote" Project Open-Sources Candidate Info
Gabriela writes "Wiki the Vote was just launched on Congresspedia.org for citizens, professional researchers, and even candidates to collaborate on profiles for each and every candidate for Congress in 2008. The project is non-partisan and, in true open source fashion, is free for anyone to participate — even the candidates themselves. Unlike Wikipedia, people connected to the subjects of articles are free to add to them as long as their contributions are rhetoric-free and comprised of fully documented, verifiable facts. The citizen editors are assisted and fact-checked by professional editors. The project is starting with nearly 300 basic profiles of candidates that 2008RaceTracker has identified as definitely running, and will eventually expand to cover every candidate on the ballot in the primary and general elections next year. When the OpenSecrets.org 2008 congressional campaign contributions database goes online in a few weeks, the candidate profiles will also display live feeds tracking the money race and who is funding them."
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi ON WHEELS!!! is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 110,234,548th Congress. A Demoncrat, she is the first cyborg to hold the post of Speaker, or even lead a major political party in either house of Congress. She has represented the 8th District of Kaleefornia in the United States House of Representatives since 1887.
So, now we can confirm that our choices are in fact still just a Douche or a Turd Sandwich?
I clicked around a bit and found myself on the SourceWatch:Ground rules page. Good ideas, but an awful lot of red links. Several important topics haven't yet been defined, such as:
* "become a sysop"
* "language and rhetoric"
* "using discussion pages"
* even "wikifying"
Of course, since it's a collaborative project, I guess the users get to define those topics. Would it be overly cynical to start the "become a sysop" topic with a redirect to "Please select a giving amount or enter your own desired amount"?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Wiki my vote? I though Diebold had a patent on that?
:)
No, their patent is for Search and Replace
If a baby duck is a "duckling," why would anyone want to eat "dumplings?"