Apropos of the comments here on wikis (see Wikis as political organising tools) , the Socialist Alliance Wiki has had a bit of a overhaul and is now all fresh and sprightly.Tinkering will continue as it is made as user friendly as we can manage.
How you engineer a platform like this for a political party's everyday ab hoc usage is still a learning curve and no doubt mentoring newbies trough their wiki journey and dealing with wiki spam will be all part of your standard wiki work week.
Instead..PS:But now hear this! I don't want to edit another document by emailing drafts back and forth so that I have no notion whatsoever what draft is the last/latest one.
Wiki is a piece of software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.(ref)
