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uriah replied on Fri, Jul 4 2008 9:46 AM

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I think a good idea would be something like a databank of standardized arguments for anarchy and against government; same with praxeology.

Yeah, that's part of the scenario's idea, or just create full standardized arguments.

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Someone posted a similar idea recently, I don't remember if it was related to a wiki or not.  It was a FAQ, question and answer format for Austrian/libertarian topics.

 

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HeroicLife replied on Sun, Sep 14 2008 12:24 AM

uriah:
Mises.org really needs a wiki.

You can now create your own wiki at this site.

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I noticed the link days ago.  How?

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uriah replied on Sun, Sep 14 2008 6:32 AM

That's great. I'm looking forward to see some really good information in it. So when I am trying to argue/teach someone about anarcho-capitalism, I can point them to a few specific pages with some good information.

 

I just had a look at it though, and I couldn't figure out how to make a page.

 

Does your account need a certain level of permission?

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Should we put material from Wikis in public domain or some such? It might help prevent problems down the road.

Has anyone seen this site:

http://libertarianwiki.org/Libertarian_Wiki:About

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Does your account need a certain level of permission?

Hmm, looks like it.   Why don't you tell me what Wiki you want created.  I need a name, address (/Community/wiki/[address]) and a brief HTML description.

You should make it clear that this is an individual initiative and does not represent a Mises-Instituted sanctioned project.

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How about name:User Contributed Content, address:/community/wiki/user_wiki and the html description saying something to that effect so it doesn't get confused with official LvMI content.

Just to get the flame wars and sectarian infighting fighting started up mind you...

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solos replied on Sun, Sep 14 2008 5:57 PM

This seems like what you want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Libertarianism

This is a new project that started a couple weeks ago. You will reach a wider audience on Wikipedia.

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I took some initiative and created three Wikis.  What do you think?

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Looks good.  Now we can play!  Smile

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Seems to be a bug in the wiki where you can't make sub-pages but everything gets created on the top level and the 'Parent Page' little box only shows [none].

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uriah replied on Mon, Sep 22 2008 9:39 PM

Hi AC,

 

Remember the wiki is not a place to reproduce works that are written elsewhere on the site, such as PDF's of Books and similar. Instead a summary/conclusion/idea should be extracted from the works, and then the source be referenced.

 

Thanks,

 

Uriah

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Yes, please don't copy/paste any content from Mises.org, as we already have to pay for the bandwith and backup costs of the content once - no point doing it twice.

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Seems to be a bug in the wiki where you can't make sub-pages but everything gets created on the top level and the 'Parent Page' little box only shows [none]

The moderators can edit the Wiki description so that that is has a table of contents or a link to the start page if it helps.

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I was messing around in the Translations wiki where you can see what I mean.

It only lets you create a page on the first level and not in a traditional tree structure. The option 'Parent page' in the page edit is bustified in that it doesn't show any pages to be the 'parent'.

I tried both 'create a new page' and creating a page from a undefined link and it has the problem in both cases.

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