Hi,
Media Wiki is a great democratic tool, allowing anyone to
easily create beautiful content. But it has the potential to
also become an important tool *for* a democracy, by allowing
complex disputed cases to be closely argued and clearly
explained.
To best support this, it would appear that a new mode needs to
be added to Media Wiki that displays a pair of hierarchically-
expandable wiki streams side-by-side.
An example of what I'm suggesting can be seen at
makethecase.net,
a site I created over five years ago using a now obsolete
system (and some rather primitive HTML skills). Though I'm now
a proficient Ruby on Rails programmer, I think it would be
better to create an updated system using Media Wiki, the premier
modern CMS. However I don't know much about PHP, so am looking
for anyone who would like to work alone, with me, or with others,
to make this a reality.
To this end, I've created a bug report for this enhancement:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15423
I really think this would be a useful tool that would complement
Wikipedia, as I argued here:
http://makethecase.net/why.html .
Regards,
Mark