Campaigns Wikia
July 7, 2006
Jimmy Wales, the founder of WikiPedia, founded a new political wiki, called Campaigns Wikia. I like the concept, and I hope it succeeds. In the Campaigns Wikia mission statement, Jimmy calls broadcast politics dumb, dumb, dumb. I thoroughly agree. While the stupidity of TV political discourse makes Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s jobs easier, it doesn’t provide any other benefits to anybody (at least, not to anybody who is not evil and does not want to take over the world). Jimmy wants to offer a more intelligent alternative. I’ll be following the development of Campaigns Wikia with interest. It will be what the people who edit make it, just as WikiPedia was and is. I like the fact that a lot of information and discussion will be consolidated in one place, where it will be less ephemeral than that generated by a blog or discussion forum.
