[Foundation-l] Just for fun:; Polish Finace Ministry created its own Wiki

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Jan 21 00:11:15 UTC 2006


Tomasz Ganicz wrote:

>I think you may find it interesting:
>
>Polish Ministry of Finance has just started wiki-based service:
>
>http://www.podatki.gov.pl/wiki/
>
>"Podatki" means "taxes" :-)
>
>The idea of the Wiki is to let people complain about absurds in Polish
>taxation system and to propose projects how to change the situation.
>
>Is it the first example when wiki was launched by goverment?
>  
>
Great! and using MediaWiki software at that!

It's probably not the first government usage in general, but it could be 
the first to deal with taxation issues.  I would have been less 
surprised if this had started in a place like Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ec




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