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The main issue with the Wiki is that it's a generalistic tool. It can do nearly anything, but it's not specialized in anything. | The main issue with the Wiki is that it's a generalistic tool. It can do nearly anything, but it's not specialized in anything. So using it to do something alse than creating a collaborative web site can be tricky or take a lot of time to enforce structural conventions. In addition, it requires a good communication on how the structuration has to be done by the end users. | ||
* Clarity when mixing proposals and amendments on a page | * Clarity when mixing proposals and amendments on a page | ||
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* Decision system | * Decision system | ||
* User-friendliness if your are not a fan of the Wiki tool | * User-friendliness if your are not a fan of the Wiki tool | ||
* Seing amendments/questions/discussions in the page flow can be tricky | |||
Revision as of 07:47, 28 July 2014
Liste d'outils existants
- MediaWiki (libre & open source GPL) - example : Events/EGA:2014-08/Amendments
- GetOpinionated : http://opinion.pirateparty.be (libre & open source GPL)
- AT4AM : http://www.at4am.org tool developped for EU (libre & open source EUPL)
- Wirite : http://main.wirite.org/ (proprietary, source not available at this time)
- Git
- German Laws on GitHub : https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
- Pads (etherpad-lite)
Standards et formats de fichier
- http://www.akomantoso.org/ : "Akoma Ntoso (“linked hearts” in Akan language of West Africa) defines a “machine readable” set of simple technology-neutral electronic representations (in XML format) of parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents."
Analysis of existing tools
Template :
Tool name
Good for
Lacks of
MediaWiki
The Wiki has been used for the Amendments for the August 2014 GA
Good for
- Collaborative editing
- Versioning and history
- Easy to use if you now how to use the Wiki
- Flexible
Lacks of
The main issue with the Wiki is that it's a generalistic tool. It can do nearly anything, but it's not specialized in anything. So using it to do something alse than creating a collaborative web site can be tricky or take a lot of time to enforce structural conventions. In addition, it requires a good communication on how the structuration has to be done by the end users.
- Clarity when mixing proposals and amendments on a page
- Support for translations
- History on sections of a page (i.e. Amendments and Proposals)
- Easier way to debate/discuss on amendments and proposals
- Parliamentary/Legislative/Judiciary specific structures of documents
- Decision system
- User-friendliness if your are not a fan of the Wiki tool
- Seing amendments/questions/discussions in the page flow can be tricky