[Campaigns-l] Any Minnesotans out there?

[Chad Lupkes]

I dropped in the Washington State Local Races, and I see someone else
dropped in Tennessee.

How much do we want to duplicate efforts?  What differentiates
campaigns.wikia.com from e-democracy.org/wiki ?  What information is best in
our systems instead of Wikipedia?  There's a page on this topic already
about what the differences are, and we need to build a strong foundation to
allow for organic growth, but how much of an overlap do we need or want?

Chad


On 7/26/06, Steven Clift <clift at publicus.net> wrote:
>
>
> It would be great to connect.  If volunteers here are interested
> perhaps we can kill to birds with one stone.
>
> Since 1994 we've been doing election information directories like:
>
>    http://e-democracy.org/wiki/Minnesota_elections
>
> Last year, we introduced MediaWiki to Minneapolis elections with some
> great success:
>
>    http://e-democracy.org/wiki/Minneapolis_elections
>
> Ideally, the page content/links on our site could also be lifted to
> Campaigns Wikia and to Wikipedia (as appropriate) and vice versa if
> we share some Minnesota volunteers.
>
> Where we need the most help is here:
>
> http://e-
> democracy.org/wiki/Minnesota_State_House_and_Senate_candidates
>
> Luckily our state includes web addresses on the candidate forms, so
> many (not all fill it out right) are in hear to transfer over:
> http://candidates.sos.state.mn.us/
>
> As a lesson to Campaigns Wikia more broadly no volunteer effort other
> than E-Democracy's has ever developed a comprehensive link list of
> state legislative candidates (example - http://www.e-
> democracy.org/2002/leg.html )  And at the local level, we've only
> been able to cover a few cities. So this might be an area where your
> volunteer capacity would provide some an extremely useful public
> service.  We can't expect campaigns to drop out of broadcast mode if
> most of them can't be easily found online where they at least have
> the option of being more interactive on their web sites.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
> http://e-democracy.org
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