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

[Kristofer Coward]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:32:18PM -0400, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> 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.

That makes sense. I figured the points of business might form topics,
and the MP debate be included as a string of high-ranked comments - but
a wiki does seem like a very sensible idea.

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