Cross posted to the EchoDitto Blog.

The Washington Post reports on the success of of Wikipedia today. The article itself is nothing new, mostly comparing the communitarian nature of a wiki with the tightly edited nature of a traditional encyclopedia. But we've been thinking a lot at EchoDitto about how you might use wiki technology for something a little more structured than "A Big Encyclopedia About Everything."

From what I've seen, the folks over at Disinfopedia seem to have some idea how to introduce structure and - get this - some level of organizing into the wiki process. It's clear that wikis aren't going to be the tool we can use to get activists doing all sorts of real-world activism. But we can get a lot of activists to do a lot of research to build the store of information we need to make our real world activism most effective.