Talk:Interwiki
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<i>The goal: We would like to provide a platform, on which all humans can decide together on the fate of our planet Terra.</i>
- By opting for an Internet based platform you would exclude a vast majority of the people. Apart from this rather technical limitation, which could 'in theory' be overcome, I do not share your idealism about public voting and collaborative work. Don't get me wrong here, I think world politics and world economics are completely out of whack and the system has started crashing, but I do not share the 'bottom up empowerment of the people by internet' vision.
<i>We dare to assume that during a peaceful and brisk process the power could be transferred from the shoulders of few to the shoulders of all.</i>
- I dare to assume that the shoulder of those few will carry enough sophisticated means and weapons to keep you exacly from doing that. Ever tried to take away a bone from a big dog? Neither peaceful nor brisk.
<i>As the first step we would like to connect the Wikis of this world by means of an inter-Wiki.</i>
- There is not point nor need to create any more software/platform to achieve this goal. Wikis by nature can be connected to any other Wiki by simply linking to other Wikis pages. And a lot of Wiki authors do. This is totally transparent and completely implemented, up and running and existent. If you want to have a comprising search engine over all the Wikis in the world (and Google is somehow not doing the job for you), you are free to set up a search engine over all the Wikis you find. The 'Recent Changes' pages are a good starting point to incementally update the index to save bandwidth. You can advertise this service by creating an interwiki page in every Wiki and if you use Harvest, you might even convince some Wiki admins to run a gatherer on their site and/or include the search form in their Wikis footer.
<i>There should be poll-tools at hand of everybody, by means of which everybody can tell everybody his opinion and catch up the opinion of the others to any question. </i>
- Opinions not neccessarily make a good basis for decisions. IMHO this is especially true if opinions are based on the exchange of opinions and not on facts and reasoning. See also: [GroupThink]
<i>A next possible step would be the creation of a purely virtual currency</i>
- Sorry, bailing out on this one. -jsilence
Hey mattis while I think your effort if noble and ambitious, Im a little doubtful. Things to consider Education, literacy, public sphere, public opinion, democracy and heaps of other non-technical stuff. Why are wiki's the best platform? Consider that 1 in 4 people dont even have electricity yet.
I would like some p2p software that can collect my opinions and then tell me who is the best candidate to vote for and get them to represent my political needs. I also agree with you about webfork's great editing and feedback too. - ABliss
- Awww, thanks. Webfork
