Forum:Comment on the Defra wiki experiment

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 * Tuesday, August 15 2006 - Defra experiments with wiki. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website now includes a wiki - an experiment in collaborative working. The new Defra Wiki - a website that can be edited by anyone - allows people directly to input into the process of drafting an environmental contract for the UK. / Community involvement

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The Defra wiki is currently locked. (13:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC))

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(Copy of posting to David Miliband's blog):
 * Dear David, like many others I applaud your experiment and hope it continues. From my perspective - founder Sustainable Community Action wiki - http://sca21.wikia.com - which being going nearly 2 years now - most worrying aspect of this has been large numbers of wholescale deletions. If this simply vandalism, then (for a variety of reasons) no big deal. If on the other hand someone from government has been deleting stuff in a high handed manner without explanation, then this seems to me much more serious. If there's a view that some subjects e.g. env contract for local sustainability, water in relation to housebuilding levels, etc., are too contentious for  a gov wiki to handle, one alternative would be for you to refer contributors on to us. Philralph 13:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)