Charter/Terms
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We are here met for a political object, and discussion involves political terms, many of which may be unfamiliar to those with predominantly technical backgrounds.
Politics is a complex subject and an old one, and much has been written about its practice and the establishment of political communities. Perhaps some good general sources should be listed here.
The topic of emergent politics and large group dynamics within online communities is a new one; it is only recently that any online community or and eng:group entity grew big enough, long enough, to display these dynamics.
Glossary
Here's a quick glossary of political terms. Anyone with the willingness might work to link these to Wiktionary or other good sources.
- politics, or politics as usual
- "the art of the possible"; how humans organize their communities
- convention
- assembly of individuals who meet to establish a charter or other foundation issues; tends to be very large
- party
- group within a convention who are agreed on a platform and work together to advance it; usually a large fraction of convention members
- caucus
- group within a convention who seek to find a common ground on some issues; often quite small
- platform
- political agenda or plan of action
- plank
- element, section, or clause of a platform
- charter
- foundation document which controls all other documents, rules, and procedures governing a eng:group entity; sometimes constitution
External links
- Reputation management
- Shirky:A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- Slashdot-Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles
- Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger,
- ...it may be the case that we have to figure out how to make the Wikipedia good, because that’s all there’s going to be. (death of the paper encyclopedia)
- Introducing reputation for contributors or articles is the greatest risk to the Wikipedia community.
- Jimbo Wales at Stanford, February 2005
- Metawiki:Article validation
- ...to scale further a reputation system may be required for this network...
- (First Monday) Phantom Authority
- (First Monday) Manifesto for the Reputation Society
- meatball:GetARoom, meatball:ConflictParadox, meatball:CommunitySolution, meatball:DissuadeReputation
- Wiki Wars and LivingPlatform.CA vs. GPC-LP - two case studies of actual politics as usual becoming tied up with wiki politics. Worth detailed review, and suggesting a need for a polity to start to deal with inherent political differences AS such.
