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"-- April," so designated to differentiate the nickname from the month, is an astronomer by profession and an avid reader by avocation. |
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=== Warning: Here again, gone again. === |
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My homepage is at http://www.renaissoft.com/april/ and I can be reached through email at april@renaissoft.com. |
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I am an occasional participant here these days, I'm afraid. Work doesn't |
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I'm a fan of the Wikipedia because it's a '''[[consensus]]''' effort. This happens to fit in neatly with some of my ideas about the most productive forms of social interaction. Someday, I'd like to see a similar setup for a discussion of human rights, the better to work toward an international consensus on the fundamental rights that should be granted to every human being. Hey, everybody's got to have a dream... |
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allow me much free time for editing. I may be in intermittently for a few |
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weeks or months, and then disappear for many months on end. My apologies, |
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but time and stress are working against me here. [[User:-- April|-- April]] 02:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC) |
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=== Consensus and Wikipedia === |
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=== Science Hypertextbook project === |
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A consensus is a general agreement among the members of a given community. Such agreement need not be unanimous, but the word implies more than a simple majority. The closest equivalent phrase might be the "collective opinion" of a group, keeping in mind that some degree of variation is still possible among individuals in that group on the topic. |
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I'm working on developing a science hypertextbook online, called (for a working title) '''Science!... in Simple Steps'''. Given the amount of time it was taking me to work on the project, I was inspired by [[Wikipedia]] to open it to the wide wild world of Wikidom. A friend has offered me a site and some code support, so it's now set up! At the moment it's using UseModWiki, though my code-guru friend is muttering noises about optimizations. |
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The word also holds implications of compromise. Rather than one opinion being adopted by a plurality, consensus suggests that various different opinions are brought together and adapted until a single "average" statement is reasonably representative of the whole. The articles of Wikipedia are intended to follow this kind of approach. |
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I would appreciate it if those of you familiar with Wikis and Wikified projects (like Wikipedia!) could drop by and give some advice. I would '''really''' appreciate it if some of the scientifically knowlegeable sorts I so often see around here would add to the text, which at the moment is extremely preliminary. You can find it at, |
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The concept of consensus is an important one in the context of society and government, and forms a cornerstone of the concept of democracy. Democracy, in its raw form, has sometimes been referred to as the "tyranny of the majority", with the implication that one faction of the society is dominating other factions, possibly repressively. Others, however, argue that if the democracy adheres to the principles of consensus, factional dominance can be minimized and decisions will be most representative of the entire society. |
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Update: Transfering the hypertextbook material to Wikibooks. Slowly. |
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Your home page doesn't work. There is nothing in your talk section either! |
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| ⚫ | I intend to use this space for a few notes and suchlike that don't belong in the Wikipedia articles. I would appreciate it, therefore, if messages to me were placed in the [[User_talk:--_April|"Talk" section]]. |
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I am an occasional participant here these days, I'm afraid. Work doesn't allow me much free time for editing. I may be in intermittently for a few weeks or months, and then disappear for many months on end. My apologies, but time and stress are working against me here. -- April 02:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm working on developing a science hypertextbook online, called (for a working title) Science!... in Simple Steps. Given the amount of time it was taking me to work on the project, I was inspired by Wikipedia to open it to the wide wild world of Wikidom. A friend has offered me a site and some code support, so it's now set up! At the moment it's using UseModWiki, though my code-guru friend is muttering noises about optimizations.
I would appreciate it if those of you familiar with Wikis and Wikified projects (like Wikipedia!) could drop by and give some advice. I would really appreciate it if some of the scientifically knowlegeable sorts I so often see around here would add to the text, which at the moment is extremely preliminary. You can find it at,
http://www.renaissoft.com/april/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Update: Transfering the hypertextbook material to Wikibooks. Slowly.
I intend to use this space for a few notes and suchlike that don't belong in the Wikipedia articles. I would appreciate it, therefore, if messages to me were placed in the "Talk" section.
