Seeing the differences among position drafts

[davidm]

On Oct 20, 7:03 pm, Michael Allan <m... at zelea.com> wrote:
> To David Mason and David Hilvert,
>
> davidm wrote:
> > I think adding the structure components to the poll wiki would be
> > the way to go. A discourseDB type approach where there are yes/no
> > vote- able propositions, with data for and against, contributed and
> > refined by individuals, with the ability to link in other pages via
> > properties and queries, could work best for the benefits of Votorola
> > and SMW without trying to do too much. A diff or visual tool to
> > compare two pages might be useful as an add on, but only if those
> > pages are carefully structured. A timeline could be constructed in
> > SMW using tools like
> >http://tw.rpi.edu/proj/semhis.wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> You feel safer with tight integration.  That's cool.  I'm interested
> in seeing what you propose.  So maybe the best approach, instead of
> choosing between A and B, is to do both in parallel.  The architecture
> can support that.  The pollserver can have any number of pollwikis,
> and they can be located anywhere.  So if you want to push forward with
> setting up a demo pollwiki/DiscourseDB, I don't see any obstacles.
>
> For my part, I'm keen to go in the direction of B.  It's a parallel
> approach in itself.  We reach out to forums that already exist, and we
> retool them with our voting/drafting controls.  If the controls are
> sufficiently lightweight (like URLs), then we won't even need the
> permission of the forum administrators.  We just go in there and start
> doing it.  We do it simultaneously across many forums, and many media.

I should have asked who you meant by "they" .. I didn't realize you
had this interventionist approach on other sites in mind, which I'm
fully in support of. Finding ways to import vote-able discussions
seems very worthwhile and innovative. But I think people would be
inclined to try to resolve things in a simpler fashion with polls.

If there is a straightforward way to setting up and using Votorola in
this context I'd give it a try.

David