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| − | Issuepedia is the | + | [[Issuepedia:About|Issuepedia]] is on a deep-dive mission into the facts behind public discourse, and the [[rhetorical deception|deceptions]] that [[political power|power]] players use to engineer public sentiment counter to those facts. |
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| + | We believe that claims of "[[objectivity]]" are often a way of dodging responsibility for confronting the powerful. We will take sides, but only because the evidence supports the side we take – and we won't unilaterally endorse any side's positions just because overall we like that side better. In that sense, we will try to be objective about the evidence, and (more importantly) to follow [[Issuepedia:Arguing/guidelines|best practices for epistemic inquiry]]. If any hand that feeds us ever abuses others, we fully intend to bite it. | ||
* [[Issuepedia:Mission|Mission]]: what we're trying to do | * [[Issuepedia:Mission|Mission]]: what we're trying to do | ||
Latest revision as of 00:05, 22 July 2020
About
Issuepedia is on a deep-dive mission into the facts behind public discourse, and the deceptions that power players use to engineer public sentiment counter to those facts.
We believe that claims of "objectivity" are often a way of dodging responsibility for confronting the powerful. We will take sides, but only because the evidence supports the side we take – and we won't unilaterally endorse any side's positions just because overall we like that side better. In that sense, we will try to be objective about the evidence, and (more importantly) to follow best practices for epistemic inquiry. If any hand that feeds us ever abuses others, we fully intend to bite it.
- Mission: what we're trying to do
- Role: how Issuepedia is different from all those other wikis, and how it fits in
Projects
Projects that originated or currently operate within Issuepedia:
Administration
As of this writing, Issuepedia is solely administered and mostly written by Woozle, who invites others to participate. To help support Issuepedia, see Issuepedia:site support.
And yes, I need to do some banners and buttons; nobody's been asking for them, though, so it hasn't been a priority.
The section named "User Roles" has been archived in case it becomes useful later.
The Issuepedia bug tracker is here.
Related Pages
Some of these pages need to be updated or reconsidered with regard to how they fit in, or at least tagged for update:
- Issuepedia:Commons: general discussion about the site
- Issuepedia:Frequently Arising Questions: ask questions, find answers
- Issuepedia:Governmental Brainstorming: fix the government
- Issuepedia:Prediction Registry
- Issuepedia:Wanted Pages
- pages in need of updating (use {{notice/need/update}} to tag pages)
History
- 2004-11-09 LiveJournal post where I originally laid out the idea which became Issuepedia