Hi everyone - This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York last January..http://ideagra.ph We presented this as a way to discuss a few of the most complicated/controversial Wikimedia-related issues that haven't yet garnered a consensus. It was specifically designed to fix the current problems with Wikipedia's discuss pages (arguments get very long, complex, and messy).
What makes a debate here different from one on a standard discuss page? Statements have a color (green/red) which represents their current state of consensus (something that's been refuted, for instance, is red). You can also re-use facts concluded in other debates by other people - thus allowing the work of debating/reasoning to be distributed among (potentially) billions of people.
We've created a Wikipedia category for issues surrounding Wikipedia: http://ideagra.ph/1870
We need your feedback...
-Peter
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