[Cdn-DMCA] Proposal: collaborative comments on the Commons debates

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Kristofer Coward wrote:
> The proposed system seems rather similar to a slash site - it might
> just be easier to make the appropriate modification to slash than to
> code this from the ground up.

I think Wiki might be a better match than slash - the thing is that with
slash, there are a relatively small number of "stories" and lots of
comments per story.  How I imagine my proposal is that it would have a
large number of individual points, and relatively few comments for each of
them.  Yesterday's Hansard was roughly 67,000 words long and had 430 link
targets (according to a bit of shell plumbing).  Ideally, I'd like each of
those link targets to be a distinct place where someone could add a
comment - but I wouldn't want to try to use a slash-style site with that
many "articles" per day.  A slash-style site could work if there were
several volunteers going through the transcripts and flagging the
interesting bits to become new "articles", but then it's very much more a
centralized editorial thing than what I had in mind.

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Matthew Skala
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