[EM] Re: Wikipedia

[James Green-Armytage]

>The trouble with a wikipedia is that anyone can delete and replace what
>you 
>post. The final result represents the opinion of the most recent poster.
>It would be better if, instead of replacing the existing page or
>modifying 
>it, a new poster could create an alternative page.  Nothing posted could
>be 
>deleted or modified by a subsequent poster.
>A bulletin-board-style discussion page could deal with debates and 
>disagreements in the most efficient way. Again, no poster could delete or 
>modify what someone else had posted.
>
	Well, that sort of leads in the direction of the suggestion I made, 
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-May/013112.html
that we create an evolving term dictionary as an ongoing list thread,
where people cut and paste the previous version and make their own
additions to it. I made a pretty detailed proposal, and no one went for it
so far, but I still think that it should probably work, if the wiki thing
isn't working (and I'm not convinced that it is).
	Anyone can get it going by making the initial posting, and then people
can add to it but not delete it without some sort of consensus. The order
would be alphabetical, so taxonomy wouldn't be an issue.

best,
James
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