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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.

Temporary Link (Evaluation for Podcasting workshop):

• http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=49kM1f1kFSnMMNWzPmrMqw_3d_3d

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. Categories - View select content by page categories.

• 3. Popular or All - View popular pages to see what others find most useful or scan the list of all pages.

• 4. Create new page. Or 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
  • St. Paul E-Democracy
  • St. Paul E-Democracy Outreach
  • St. Paul elections - A citizen-based non-partisan election guide
  • Citizens Guide to St. Paul - according to the members of the St. Paul Issues Forum

New Zealand

• Canterbury and Christchurch elections 2007

United Kingdom

UK communities with active local Issues Forums.

• Brighton & Hove
  • Brighton and Hove Wiki
  • Brighton and Hove Topic Index
• 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.
• 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.

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.