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I'm working on setting up citizen participation in deliberation about public policy, making best use of free content and open networks.
Hope you'll find some way to pitch in!

A note on creating links to empty pages (first cut):
I'm quite familiar with wiki dynamics and how "incipient links" creates a page request on WantedPages, but I don't see that as an unalloyed good.
If you feel the need for another page, please do create it. In most situation what you know about that specific will give the page a good start. In the rare instance where you know nothing about the specific but feel the need for it a link to an empty page will create a WantedPage flag.
To put this another way: if a person says "I want this page", to whom is s/he issuing that request?
When there is material on hand it creates its own gravity ... the wish for a page is, w/respect, a whim. The sum total of those whims masks weaker signals that may be more meaningful.
To put it yet another way, as alternative to just adding one more item to the task list: it's sort of like raising a problem only after you've come up with a least a suggestion for a fix or solution.
Occasional links to empty pages that are truly wanted is signal; routinely creating webs of blank pages does produce meaning, though it does create toil.
If you really want a page, even just keyboarding the reason you feel it's needed would kick-start the page creation process.
I won't insist, but heh neither will I relent on this. ;-)

--BenTremblay 12:41, 16 February 2008 (PST)

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