Wiki Content Creation Project
The goal is to build short, factual articles on core democracy topics — accessible to anyone, not just specialists. Articles should provide references where possible.
Get involved
Pick a topic below that interests you and write a short article (a few paragraphs with references is enough to start). Then either:
- Open a pull request directly on the wiki, or
- Post a draft in the DOD Telegram and someone can help you publish it
Topic tracking: https://trello.com/b/P5xdCf43/open-democracy-wiki
Here are some initial ideas for content (open to suggestions):
- Democracy in the work place: Community owned businesses and related topics (how they're formed, existing examples, what they were able to achieve etc). We'll be writing multiple articles, covering as much as possible. The goal is to inform citizens with the necessary information and help them learn how they can create and manage these kinds of organizations.
- DAO - Decentralized autonomous organization (definition, similar concepts [cooperatives], existing examples in the real world)
- Businesses that can be managed online or through software (e.g. a publicly-owned Taxi app). Real-world examples that failed or have been successful
- Community business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_business , combine with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_ownership
- (another website) Community-Owned Business: How Citizens Are Filling Local Needs Through Shared Vision and Investment
- Cooperative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative , Consumers' co-operative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative
- Legal aspects of the topic e.g. creating a business, having it registered and recognized for tax purposes and so on
- Existing Examples in the real world (would be great to have a
dedicated page on these examples)
- bHive (in Australia). Two of their projects:
- https://bhive.coop/current-projects/car-sharing/ (Bendigo Car Sharing Cooperative) (an article on this, how it was formed, what its doing etc)
- Villages: https://bhive.coop/current-projects/villages/
- Any other examples
- Government by algorithm
- sub-topics1
- Meta-page: Summary, short examples, function
- Non-partisan_democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy
- Compulsory voting (do later)
Latest Updates
Created articles:
Previous topics (we'll will look at this later)
- Aggregation of links for organizations/groups involved in improving government
- Summarized analysis of the above
- Countries which have been successful in implementing Open/improved democracy to varying degrees
- Participatory budgeting (how its done, what are the required time frames etc (suggested by Nick)
- Community owned businesses (definition, types of these businesses, how they're created, existing examples of these businesses)