MGP2006 alum Conor Kenny launches "wiki the vote" at Congresspedia

Conor Kenny, (MGP2006) managing editor of the "Congresspedia Project" says they've launched "Wiki the Vote," a citizen-driven effort to cover the 2008 congressional electoins. Using wikis, citizens will post detailed information about the pre-primary record of each candidate. Washington, D.C.-based Congresspedia was started by the Center for Media and Democracy in Madison, Wis., and is funded in part by the Sunlight Foundation (Ellen Miller, JTM2007). It is part of CMD's SourceWatch.org project (www.SourceWatch.org) -- an on-line collaborative encyclopedia of the people, organizations, and issues shaping the public agenda. More than 280 basic profiles of confirmed 2008 congressional candidates have been created. In true open-source fashion, candidates and campaign volunteers are free to contribute documented information about both challengers and incumbents. They are asked, however, to identify themselves when making such edits. "Contributions to Congresspedia are judged by !
their accuracy and sourcing - not who made them," Kenny says in an emailed news release. The Congresspedia project contains nearly 2,000 citizen-authored articles on legislation, lawmakers, committees and congressional procedure to give a comprehensive picture of how -- and why -- Congress operates as it does. The articles benefit from being part of the more than 30,000 articles that make up SourceWatch. Kenny is at conor@sourcewatch.org / 202-277-6427.