User:S. Taylor Stewart

My name is S. Taylor Stewart and my sole purpose here is to design the Consensus Omnium engine. I have requested a wiki to enable collective intelligence for that ongoing purpose.

Role of the Consensus Omnium engine
The Wiki engine helps people reach consensus. It does this with the help of administrators, bureaucrats, stewards and arbitrators. This hierarchy of power is necessary with the Wiki engine in order to exclude people or ideas that are contrary to the goal of consensus. Exclusion, as a method of garnering consensus, only works in small to medium sized groups where the excluded person has a real option of creating a data-fork. When the wiki has grown to the point where it is considered an authoritative resource, however, hopes of starting a competing fork are unrealistic. In order to continue to grow in a productive and useful manner, an authoritative global resource must have an engine that allows for competing ideas within it. Design of such an engine is the purpose of the COE project that I have proposed to Wikia for hosting. I hope that you will support my proposal.