Peter May, whose work underpins the Progressive Pulse blog, and I were talking yesterday about the need to bring together a whole host of posts on this site, Progressive Pulse and other sites in a place where they could be more easily found under topic themes.
This reminded that three or so years ago I was keen to build a wiki for this site but it did not happen, I have no doubt for very good reason (like a lack of time). However, the software was created and it occurred to me that it could be very easily adapted for this purpose.
As an example, this is what a page on the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project looks like. You can find that page here.
The question is, might this be of any use?
If it is and you have data you would like to see posted in this way as a resource want then please prepare pages in Word or something that can be easily transcribed into a web page and send them to me. I cannot agree to post in advance. And all links will be checked. But this seems valuable to me.
I stress that it really does need structuring under a common theme e.g. the Green New Deal, and then an introduction followed by subheading under which links are provided with a note of explanation if necessary e.g. because if it is to a Youtube file there might be no clue otherwise what it might be about. The title of the item to be linked and the link itself will be required in each case.
Can I also ask that pages be separated so that they are all Tax Research UK content, or all Progressive Pulse content, or all third-party content, although cross-references between the pages will be permitted, of course?
I have not got time to build this - although I can post items. But if others can find items to populate themes I am happy to do this. So too would Peter who is concentrating on third party sources in the main. We have those from a recent discussion in MMT.
Of course, the category search facility in the right-hand column plus the search box in the top right-hand corner might help this task.
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I suppose the question would be, why a wiki? Is it just a convenient place to put longer-form or more considered content? Ideally a wiki is opened up to allow crowd-sourced contributions of content and collaborative amendments by a number of different editors, but you will need some moderation, and perhaps separate “draft” (under construction) and “public” (finalised) spaces. Who is going to do that? If there is no capacity to moderate the content on an ongoing basis, just to review everything once on the initial submission, and then each page is locked down to stop it being edited, you might just as well just have a series of web pages. Is the idea to encourage discussion on the associated talk page?
I would be happy for those with experience here to be editors
But they’d need to prove their credibility over some time….
A wiki is for this purpose simply an easy to format way to assemble the data
Your blog has been essential daily reading for a number of years now. I am an engineer (electronics) by profession so not an obvious fan but we engineers are obsessed by understanding how complex and mysterious systems work. Tax, economics, MMT etc certainly fall into that category. Wikis are in my view a brilliant innovation, pulling together all the relevant information and theory from many sources into an easily navigated structure.
I hope this can develop – I am keen for people to offer suggested content
I am not literate in finance, tax or economics. I have been doing my best to address this by visiting this site frequently over the years. This illiteracy does not mean that I do not have any ideas or thoughts on better/fairer ways of doing money on a national level but I do lack the vocabulary and the technical knowledge meaning I am not confident posting. A wiki might help with my education and therefore my involvement.
Thanks
Yes please to a wiki and could I also suggest something akin to that which appears on the Skeptical Science website – climate change – where they have a handy list of common climate denial myths and the relevant take downs. Something like this for MMT would be invaluable to those of us just beginning to wrap our heads around it.
Would love to help in any way I can, although I have no financial / economics background. But I do make nice beer!
Karl
Nive idea……