Ahem... mediawiki.org/wiki/Download :)
On 8/10/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
My thoughts exactly. You are welcome to download and use MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia uses, and run your website using it, however. See mediawiki.org/wil/Download Regards,
On 8/10/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I propose today to adapt wiki software (a few add-ons could do it) to
create
a special wiki with the following main characteristics :
- Allow to build cooperative propositions
- Allow to vote on the propositions democratically
I'm not sure those two characteristics work well together. Democracy can only decide between a finite number of discrete choices. A co-operative proposition building process is likely to end up with a large number of propositions without definite borders between them. Wikis are good for building consensus, not for managing a democracy.
That aside, the main problem is that you don't say what you intend this site to make decisions about. It sounds like your are just proposing an online debating society, which really isn't something the Wikimedia Foundation would have anything to do with. By all means create your own site along those lines, but it will never be a Wikimedia project.
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