[thelist] Open Source government wikis

[Steven Streight]

Wiki vandalism is highly over-hyped. It's similar to preventing comment spam
and spambot drippings on blogs. For blogs, you use comment moderation,
perhaps a captcha in rare and extreme cases of botnet spam attacks.

For wikis, you simply make it semi-public, in other words, only authorized
team members can edit anything, but the pool of team members can expand as
they are invited or as they request to be contributors.

I suggest everyone interested in collab to read WIKINOMICS by Don Tapscott
(author of The Digital Economy) and discover how even goldmining was
crowdsourced by Goldcorp, Inc, and many other stories.

On 2/5/07, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Out of curiousity, thinking of Wikipedia and the problems it occassionally
> has with "vandalism", why would you consider a wiki for this type of
> organization?
>
> On 05/02/07, Steven Streight <steven.streight at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If anyone has set up wikis for local/state government collaboration
> > projects, I'd love to have links to the wikis and to articles about it.
> Am
> > wanting to start a wiki for a major new institution, affliated with a
> > local
> > university and a high ranking public servant, revolving around integrity
> > and
> > ethics in government leadership.
> >
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