Creating "the Wikipedia of pros and cons"

Debatepedia Founder Brooks Lindsay will host a panel focusing on projects and individuals attempting to build what amounts to “the Wikipedia of debates” or “the Wikipedia of pros and cons”. The panel will bring together Debatepedia founder Brooks Lindsay, Debatewise founder David Crane, Opposing Views founder Russell Fine, and ProCon.org editor Kambiz Akhavan. We will discuss our successes and failures over the past three years, and the way forward for clarifying public debates via wiki and other technologies. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]; H.5 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]; I.7 [Document and Text Processing] General Terms Design, Experimentation, Human Factors Keywords Debate, politics, encyclopedia, pros and cons, wiki, dialogue, deliberation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Brooks Lindsay
• Keywords: Debatepedia Founder Brooks, Founder David Crane, Founder Russell Fine, Internet Technology, WIKIS 2009