[Campaigns-l] US-only or international?

[Morten Lange]

--- Elena Barskaya <barskaya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yepp, toatlay agree. 
>   Don't forget about Russia. 
>   But then again it's not only about discussing local politics, it's about
> exchenging knowledge betwen countries.
>   
> Elena
> 

That is what I thought, also : The globalisation process is strong, on many
levels, and that certainly goes also for politics. Politics in the US can have 
so far- reaching consequences that parts of it instantly influences the global
political arena. So a discussion of US-politics can often become a discussion
about consequences outsde the US, directly and indirectly. 

I think the global and international standpoint, discussed using English, is
likely to be the most interesting and fruitful part of the "campaigns" wiki
project. There is a question of compatibility of the "global" discussions,
though. "Western" v.s "non-western", "cultural imperialism" etc.


But I think the most important issues are truly international, and increasingly
so, like  welfare, environmental problems/looming disaster, monetary policy and
trade, and many of the solutions to our common problems. Perhaps even basic
human rights .... 

So, in conclusion, if the "campaigns" wiki is split across countries, I think
we also need a "domain" set apart for the global and perhaps domains for
regions/parts of hemispheres or "cultures".


Best Regards,
Morten Lange

P.S. 
I´m new here. Hope I have not misunderstood the project. The announcement was
quite open-ended.


> Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
>   This is an interesting project, and I hope it will be successful
> (though it's not quite clear to me yet what it's trying to be
> successful at ;-). Certainly Jimmy has demonstrated that he has a
> powerful social network at his disposal. He just needs to post on his
> blog and he'll have a flash mob showing up for tea! ;-)
> 
> Right now the frontpage and content is very US-centric, which is not
> surprising given the way the news about the site has propagated. I
> wonder whether any thought has been put into whether and how to
> internationalize the project yet. In Wikipedia, the project is split
> across languages -- it seems to me that something like this might be
> best split across countries, such as:
> 
> campaigns.de.wikia.com => Germany
> campaigns.fr.wikia.com => France
> 
> Of course, many countries have multiple official languages, so you might need
> 
> campaigns.ca-fr.wikia.com => Canada, French
> campaigns.ca-en.wikia.com => Canada, English
> 
> The URLs tend to get a bit awful - if the project grows, perhaps it
> should get its own domain name. Does this approach seem sensible
> otherwise? If so, it might be good to have a page where people can
> sign up if they are interested in a campaigns wiki(a) for a particular
> country/region.
> 
> Erik
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