Democracy/LogiLogi.org
From Intelligent Designs
First of all LogiLogi is no Wiki
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The difference
Though the current partly proof-of-concept version is in terms of code a modification of the Tavi-wiki. The difference becomes apparent more in the direction LogiLogi wants to take. It targets on discussion and philosophical and socio-scientific (history students are at this moment it's main users) innovation instead of doc- or encyclopedia-building (I know there are discussion-wiki's out there, and that the original one was, but it's main success still lies with these more static tasks).
Then what is it
The big picture is that LogiLogi will support peer-groups that can vote on the ranks of pages within sections, or concept clusters. A page can be in many clusters and multiple pages with the same name can exist. Pages can be locked by their authors (to ensure scientific responsibillity) but links can then still be added to them. Linking can be done in different ways. One can link to a name, to a concept, to a specific page (Unique ID) or to a version of a page. Linking to concepts being the default so that the system can grow streamlessly (pointing first to a single page on Roosevelt, and then as more are added about this person, automatically to the whole cluster).
Ways in which this difference is apparent are currently already the section-system being in place. Also the year-parser shows the direction to automatisation and automatic linking.
What it has to do with democracy
Knowledge (surely in the sense that people should know, and should be able to know what they vote about and what they vote for), but also knowledge specialisation, or just being more active on one thing than another, could, or maybe should play a role at the voting-process. Not that this means the creation of yet another aristocracy, it just means that instead of votes from parties votes from members of certain peergroups (in other words: paradigms) could give multiple views on matters.
