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post Thu 6th July 2006, 10:05am
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Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia Announces " Campaigns Wikia".
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Wikipedia founder launches political site
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post Thu 6th July 2006, 6:02pm
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection.

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post Thu 6th July 2006, 6:48pm
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Wikipedia founder tackles politics
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( InfoWorld ) - HThe founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more intelligent." Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales launched the  Campaigns Wikia site  on the Fourth of July. "It's time for ... democracy to really involve the people," he said in the site's mission statement. "Broadcast media tells you what

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post Thu 6th July 2006, 6:47pm
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The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more intelligent."

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post Thu 6th July 2006, 8:27pm
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QUOTE(Yahoo! News @ Thu 6th July 2006, 7:02pm) *

Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection.

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This ought to help provide some insights into the Institutional POV at Wikipedia.
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post Thu 6th July 2006, 8:30pm
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Would it be safe to assume that this is primarily meant to "offload" the sources of the more bitter and divisive politics-related conflicts onto another site, where they'll be out of the spotlight and less likely to make Wikipedia look like a big flame-war zone?

It should be just a matter of time before we start seeing exhortations for people to "take it to Campaigns Wiki" whenever someone starts a political argument.
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QUOTE(Joey @ Thu 6th July 2006, 1:48pm) *
Topic excluded from Wikipedia might be directed to his for-profit Wikia pages, where he can earn profit by use of Google ads. He might be inclined to promote policies that exclude content from Wikipedia knowing such excluded content may be accepted at his for-profit Wiki.

That's another good point - as Wikipedia's growth rate starts to slow down, moving the heavy-action topics (along with their more heated arguments) to another site that's been carrying Google ads from the start is definitely a good business move. I just took a look at the Recent Changes over there, and it's already more active there than most of the minor wikis I've seen, and there's no shortage of partisanship either. No doubt that will be encouraged there, if only for that reason.

I might also add that launching the site on the Fourth of July strikes me as a rather cynical, not to mention blatantly opportunistic, thing to do.

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post Thu 6th July 2006, 10:12pm
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Wikipedia founder tackles politics
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The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more intelligent."

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The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more intelligent."

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Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has launched a political wiki site, saying that it is "time for politics to become more intelligent".

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Wikipedia founder unveils political site
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