PoliticWiki: exploring communal politics

This paper describes the methodology and results of an attempt to use a wiki web site for political collaboration. Recruited through gateway contacts for online political organizations and publications, participants in the PoliticWiki project were asked to create a political platform from scratch. Foundation content was copied from 3rdParty.org to seed the wiki. Of the 78 surveys collected, eight members were responsible for 96% of all content changes. This study identifies obstacles to participation on a point-of-view wiki and explores its function as both a political forum and a vehicle for participatory design. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 [Group and Organization Interfaces]: Collaborative computing, Asynchronous interaction, Computer-supported cooperative work, Organizational Design, Web-Based interaction. J.1 [Administrative Data Processing]: Government. General Terms Management, Documentation, Design, Experimentation. Keywords Wiki, third party politics, online colla...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Kevin Makice
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Online Political Organizations, Participatory Design, Wiki Web Site, WIKIS 2006