Campaigns Wikia - 1 comment

I've been meaning to post something about, and delve further into, the new Campaigns Wikia project since Andrew Brown mentioned in last month.



Entitled "Let's ramp up the intelligence of politics", here's the mission statement, written by Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. An extract:

This website, Campaigns Wikia, 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.

Together, we will start to work on educating and engaging the political campaigns about how to stop being broadcast politicians, and how to start being community and participatory politicians.

I can't say I have a very clear idea of how it's going to pan out - or indeed what tools they might make available for political bloggers and campaigners - but I've registered an interest, and I hope you'll do the same. You can find out how here.

One bit of content they have: an international electoral calendar. If you want to improve it, you know where to go.