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00995: Re: [WDDM] poll extension; website suggestions/plans

From: Filia den Hollander <holla(at)xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:02:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [WDDM] poll extension; website suggestions/plans

Briefly looked into this one. Proposed changes seem okay to me. (I am
one of the "email-only" participants.)

With kind regards,
Filia



Op 9-feb-07 om 8:58 heeft WDDM webmaster het volgende geschreven:

Dear all!
Here are two items resulting mainly from the discussion in the other
list:

A.
It might be useful if the new members who joined WDDM after December
2005 also participated in the "How To Proceed with WDDM Organizing?"
poll of Dec. 18, 2005. There were altogether 7 main questions and some
technical questions listed at the end of this page:
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/Wiki/HowToProceedPoll

Thus new members are invited to send in their replies to these
questions, and their responses will be added to the above page.

Of all the original questions, especially the first three is still
very relevant. These are:
1. Why have you become a WDDM member?
2. What should WDDM try to achieve?
3. Does WDDM need a decision making mechanism (voting)?



B.
Future website changes:

Because
(i) the moderation of the mailing list (or the site) by one or two
people, however hard they try to be impartial, is in principle
undemocratic,
and
(ii) because many of you apparently prefer to work through e-mail
only, and do not like to login into the site Forum, and contribute
there,
I am thinking about the following changes:

1. Make the "e-mail only" participants as equal as possible with the
"login" ones, by making it possible to post directly to the web forum
by sending one's post to a dedicated e-mail address.
2. To have "collective moderation" - everybody would be able to rate
other members' posts in the Forum, and only those posts that would
receive a minimum level of approval would survive and be visible to
external visitors to see them, and represent a kind of collective
wisdom we arrived at. This rating could again be done after login on
the site, or through an e-mail command (e.g., immediately from the
e-mail message that brought the post to all subscribers).
3. If needed, voting to be done again either directly on the site, or
by sending e-mails to dedicated e-mail addresses. Or maybe only by
e-mail?
4. All members (or anybody?) could also attach ratings to all the
links to external resources - such as sites, movements, parties,
books, ....

In the end, the site could be fully automated, all the deliberations
could be done without any need for the intervention of a moderator or
coordination committee, all would be equal. It could become a
demonstration of "politics without politicians".

It would require extensive changes to (replacement of) the current
Wiki/Forum. However, the existing contents will be preserved/archived.

It would not be trivial, would have to be done in phases, could take
many months to complete and fine tune.

Would you like something like this?

Mirek



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