Some major concepts of Issue of Issuewiki.us.
The quality and success of issuewiki.us will depend on getting reasonably balanced writers to address issues and issue areas of merit.
-bylines will be attached for the editors of Issue Areas and Issues so the writer’s name will eventually be known. The Mediawiki system allows for comments to come back to those who overwatch a page so it is not difficult to write back to them on the system–the system doesn’t divulge your email . Don’t put your email in your byline. It will be harvested by the spam-generators and your spam will increase.
-Only know people of known quality will be invited to the work the wiki and they will be authorized primarily to work issue areas they have requested and have some interest in “fair representation and fair presentation”
-All contributors may write email and letters to correspondents and columnists who have demonstrated they believe in the concept of “fair representation and fair presentation” basically part of an elevated Journalist”s creed. Send Publius@issuewiki.us a note when you get positive responses and Publius will send them a sign-on and password. As we move out of the startup stage those of you who migrate to “steward” or “sysop” status will be able to sign them up directly.
-We still need a Issuewiki.us webmaster and editors experienced with wikipedia. Keep looking for friends who might be able to assist.
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