Home
Newsletter
Events
Blogs
Reports
Graphics
RSS
About Us
Support
Write for Us
Media Info
Advertising Info
Wikipedia

Wikipedia founder launches political site Campaigns Wikia

Thursday, July 06, 2006 by: NewsTarget
Tags: Wikipedia, political news, health news


Most Viewed Articles
https://www.naturalnews.com/019574_Wikipedia_political_news.html
Delicious
diaspora
Print
Email
Share

(NewsTarget) Political buffs and armchair pundits have a new resource as of this week: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced on Tuesday a wiki devoted to heavily debated political topics, called Campaigns Wikia.

Wales announced his latest wiki foray in an "open letter to the political biosphere," in which he gave notice that he was targeting activists with every political stance who have based themselves in the internet. Web-based politics have taken off since such high-profile events as Howard Dean's grassroots campaign, which was based from a web site, and rampant blogger coverage of the 2004 party conventions.

Wales intention is to keep Campaigns Wikia a nonpartisan site, despite claims that the "blogosphere" has a decidedly liberal slant. He hopes it will be a tool that voters and political junkies alike can use to become better informed about issues.

"Whoever you are and whatever you believe, you can share with me my sincere desire that the process starts to be about substance and thought, rather than style and image," Wales said.

Campaigns Wikia will follow the format established by wiki favorites such as Wikipedia, Wicktionary and Wikiquote, in that users will be able to edit and contribute to any part of the site as long as they sign up for a free account.

###


Receive Our Free Email Newsletter

Get independent news alerts on natural cures, food lab tests, cannabis medicine, science, robotics, drones, privacy and more.


comments powered by Disqus



Natural News Wire (Sponsored Content)

Science.News
Science News & Studies
Medicine.News
Medicine News and Information
Food.News
Food News & Studies
Health.News
Health News & Studies
Herbs.News
Herbs News & Information
Pollution.News
Pollution News & Studies
Cancer.News
Cancer News & Studies
Climate.News
Climate News & Studies
Survival.News
Survival News & Information
Gear.News
Gear News & Information
Glitch.News
News covering technology, stocks, hackers, and more