[WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

[Peter Tesler]

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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