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Welcome to E-Democracy.Org's wiki at pages.e-democracy.org, where you produce the content.

This objective and balanced wiki is based on our non-profit mission. Content must be non-partisan or reflect multi-partisan sources of information. Please share your opinions in our online forums.

How to find your way?

1. Search. Press search for keywords or go if you know the exact name of the page you seek.

2. View select content by page categories.

3. View popular pages to see what others find most useful.

4. Create new page. Press "edit" on existing pages to update content.

5. Some major starting points also include:

Minnesota

• Statewide
  • 35W - Minneapolis bridge collapse wiki
  • Minnesota elections - Election links and Minnesota Gubernatorial E-Debate 2006
  • Minnesota political blogs - Weblogs focused on state politics or national politics if based in Minnesota

• Minneapolis
  • Minneapolis - The home page for the Minneapolis Wiki of Mineapolis E-Democracy
  • Minneapolis elections - A citizen-based non-partisan election guide

• St. Paul
  • Citizens Guide to St. Paul - according to the members of the St. Paul Issues Forum
  • St. Paul elections - A citizen-based non-partisan election guide

New Zealand

• Canterbury and Christchurch elections 2007

United Kingdom

UK communities with active local Issues Forums.

• Brighton & Hove
  • Brighton and Hove Wiki
• Newham
  • Newham Wiki
• UK political news

United States

• Political news - Links to major media resources
• Elections
  • President 2008 - Our wiki with election 2008 links

World

• World news in English

About E-Democracy.Org

Pages related to the development and governance of E-Democracy.Org

• Strategic Plan - for 2007-2009
• E-Debates - resources you can use to organize your own online candidate debate
• GroupServer - GroupServer is the open source software package that we use to host our forums. Watch the video.
  • Groupserver feature ideas - List new features that you'd like to see
  • Groupserver Brainstorm - March 2006, using this to collect new ideas.
  • Groupserver fixes - A place to list items in GroupServer that need to be fixed.
• Outreach - Notes on outreach to new participants and diverse voices
• Grants - Our drafting zone for grant proposals
• Minneapolis neighborhood forums- Our planning effort
• Oxford e-democracy evaluation - Notes on the evaluation of Issues Forums in the UK
• Forum manager resources - Templates and forms that can be used or modified.
• Participants guide - Tips and tricks for participating in an E-Democracy.Org forum, including a "users guide to Groupserver" (our discussion forum software).
• Local Issues Forums - A comprehensive guide
  • Start A Forum - This template for starting a forum, is still under development, but feel free to tak a look.

• Factory - In the past, we've used a different wiki program for our internal drafting. See our old Factory.

Help

If you are new "wiki" user, the MediaWiki User's Guide is available.

This wiki was upgraded significantly. ALL users must create a new account (as of July 10, 2007). Open page edits now require confirmation.

Some Tech Set-up Stuff

• Testing new Video and Audio options.
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.