Hub talk:Politics

I set this page up with direct links to the various wikis, but I'm wondering if it would be better to link them to the description pages. My thought was that people who were looking at this page wouldn't want to have to click twice to enter the wikis. Maybe I should have a description page link at the end of each entry. What do you think? Chadlupkes 16:48, 18 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Politics portal?
I think it would be useful to have something like a politics portal for wikicities. There is no need to duplicate the links that are in Category:Politics. Links to description pages or local tours would be good. Society Gardens could function as a portal that links together wikicities that fall into several existing categories. Eventually there might be a dozen or so such portals. --JWSchmidt 20:05, 18 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Eventually, I hope there will be portals. As they take shape, my concern was that people might not identify specific wiki cities as having to do with Politics, so I added them in myself.  This page should probably be moved to a portal page, but I think we might have to get some more people involved in contributing to the overall effort.  Right now there are many pages on Wikipedia that could use links to various cities, and that might also be a project we could start.  For example, I added a link to the Wine Wikicity on the wine page.  I'll do the same for beer.  We should tout the fact that we can go more into commercial names and not worry about NPOV as much, because many of the cities here are designed for specific points of view anyway.  Maybe Angela will have more to say about this.  I haven't read enough of the restrictions for use of the cities sites. Chadlupkes 00:33, 19 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Is anyone active on these cities?
I've been looking through the political wiki cities here on this list, and I hope it's just the Xmas season preventing people from doing anything. There is so much overlap between the scope of all of these, and there are so many other systems out there working on the same basic information, like dKosapedia. What are the criteria for letting some of these go after a time period with no updates? And how do we prevent the overlap with Wikipedia, which is getting more and more updates about national and local politics both inside and outside the US. I think that Wiki systems are to the 2006 election what Blogs were in 2004, or at least they could be. How do we make that happen? Chadlupkes 00:35, 24 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * I guess I'm going to have to answer my own question. Nobody is working on most of these sites, and I'm actually wondering if we should start combining them by category.  Any thoughts?  Chadlupkes 21:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)