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Open Source Politics
Hi. wegerje here. A long time ago I was an admin here (see the credits page). Seeing as how it's been years since I contributed it is good that my status was downgraded to ordinary, regular type user. I came back to do a little work on the Illinois page blog list. My current efforts are with our local state blog Prairie State Blue. So I figured I'd make sure we were at least up to date here.
So while I was here I decided to add a 50 State Blog Network list. At least a starter page. When I went to put a pointer to the page somewhere, anywhere relevant, I realized that I could no longer edit the Main page. Not that that would be where such a link would belong, of course. Anyway I decided to leave a note to the current admins to find an appropriate place to place a link to the 50 State Blog Network page.
That's when I realized that really, there should be a link on the front/Main Page pointing to a page where the current admins are noted, described and can be communicated with. Perhaps the credits page would do, but really a separate current admins page would be better.
This is in the spirit of open source politics. It's important to know who is running and maintaining a resource such as this.
imho wegerje 20:50, 31 March 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Greg, welcome back. Good idea, putting links to the 50 State article and to a list of admins (probably this page) is now on my todo list. --Centerfielder 11:53, 1 April 2008 (PDT)
Collaboration
The History Commons is working on many of the same projects and issues as the dKosopedia. I invite any and all contributors to this wiki to come on over and share our efforts. We need you! --Max 22:04, 27 December 2007 (PST)
Religion Articles
I have noticed that the religion and politics articles are still very limited.
I was wondering if there are folks who would be willing to help me add more content. I am specifically thinking of biographies of folks like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rosemary Reuther, etc. Any takers?
I've started a list. Roger 16:54, 28 June 2007 (PDT)
Orange Heart Attack
Ok, this mrongin I want to do a few minor follow-up tweaks to some edits I did last night, and somehow the "blue" database or version of dKospedia was gone, and I was getting 404 errors on any of the pages I had bookmarked, and the main page was the old "orange" version of dKospedia with content that stopped being changed in 2004. It gave me a heart attack. Any word on what happened? Lestatdelc 12:36, 8 February 2007 (PST)
- See Centerfielder's diary on DailyKos this morning. —Abou Ben Adhem 13:18, 8 February 2007 (PST)
Weird
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Progress_%26_Freedom_Foundation
Why does this link to Progress? Must be something about the & symbol... Chadlupkes 07:26, 26 June 2006 (PDT)
It does have something to do with the & symbol. There's another one in Special:Ancientpages with the & symbol that we can't access. Please, DO NOT USE THE & SYMBOL WHEN CREATING NEW ARTICLES! It makes them unaccessible. Chadlupkes 20:06, 26 June 2006 (PDT)
Stirring up interest on Daily Kos
It seems there's a lot of energy on Daily Kos that goes into high quality, well-researched diaries that disappear into the archives. Meanwhile, things just seem to languish over here.
It seems that this would be a really great place to coalesce on a "Daily Kos Platform" of sorts. The problem, though, is manifold:
- Too easy to start a new page, not enough motivation to clean existing ones
- Many pages read like bad diary entries
- There's more of a positive feedback mechanism on Daily Kos - changes quickly disappear off of "recent changes" whenever someone is making minor edits to a lot of pages
It seems like we could tie things together. One idea would be to have a "Daily Kos Platform" page, with a fixed threshold of planks. These would be links+summaries to pages where the plank is listed in greater detail. Additionally, a page of plank nominees is created. Anyone can add their proposed plank to this page. A series of polls would determine what goes on these pages:
- First poll: pick your favorite plank. Winner gets added to the platform
- Second through N poll (where N is max number of planks) - Same poll.
- First poll after maximum reached: "What is your LEAST favorite plank?". Each plank is listed, along with a "I like them all, keep them" option.
- If a plank is eliminated, its replacement is chosen in a subsequent poll
- Repeat process of removing and creating planks
Thoughts? -- RobLa 23:04, 11 August 2006 (PDT)
Archives
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Dkosopedia Dumpbackup
Does Dkosopedia offer its dumpbackup.php for other wiki communities looking to incorporate the work of dkosopedia? Hegman 01:23, 23 March 2007 (PDT)
Template:Infobox-Congress
I'm not really good at creating templates like this, but it seems like a general Congress template is not in much demand. I'm going to delete the references to it until it is actually needed on a page. I like the daily, weekly and other summary pages, but unless we're going to keep on it and make it work right, it's not looking really good. Chadlupkes 12:40, 7 June 2007 (PDT)
