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  • Is there some feature from various wikis that you didn't want? Is there a missing feature that you wanted (the voting)?
    • WIKIs are good, but they miss security for the most part. I'd rather see this set-up so instead of a vote, you have a web of trust with an owner and approving/editing members.
    • Is there some feature from various wikis that you didn't want? Is there a missing feature that you wanted (the voting)?
      The voting process is this application - it is designed so that 200 people could all work on the same document at the same time (eg. the /. crowd working on a shared letter to a politician).
    • It seems to me that the notion of a wiki isn't what is being talked about here at all. Sanity wants to call it collaborative editing; which is fine. I've been interested in computer aided collective decisionmaking since I first got my hands onto my first PDP-11 back in 1970. Another way of putting it is real pure democracy. Before the event of computers the economics made pure democracy impossible, but now we have something to do the bookkeeping required. All one has to be careful about is making sure
  • "After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society" by Robert A. Dahl (ISBN 0-300-04964-1). Once you've read enough of it to get where he's coming from start chanting "computers, computers, computers." That was my reaction when I first read it some 30 years ago. I had no objections at all with his philosophical analysis, but I was well aware of a way to shift the balance in favor or personal choice by reducing the economic costs dramatically.

    Less practically, you might also wish to read "On The Social C

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