Archive:What's Your Message?
This is a new initiative proposal. http://www.whatsyourmessage.org/
Your Messages
Listing format:
- <your name>, link to article (on subpage of your user page)
- One sentence expressing the main thesis or topic of your message.
No articles listed yet--this very recently proposed. Place most recent messages at the top of the page.
What's Your Message?
It seems that everyone has a blog these days. Everyone has a Message they want to get out to the world.
So the Citizendium has a challenge: sum up, in 5,000 words or less, what your One Message is. You want to change the world? Explain how. You want to enlighten people about vegetarianism, or Christianity, or the Iraq War, or war and peace generally? Have at it. You think you know the secret of happiness, or the purpose of life? Please tell us.
This is your open letter to the world, posted in a serious venue.
There are two basic rules, though. First, you and only you may write your message, and you can write only one piece, so make it good. Second, it cannot be abusive. You may calmly criticize political and religious figures to your heart's content, but you may not be abusive, even to them. We will have project moderators who will be empowered to de-link messages that are abusive.
Why post your Message here?
Probably the main reason to post your Message here is: it's a forum for the ages. It's not like your blog. It's not like a mailing list. It's a record of the essentials of what you want to say to the world--posted alongside other significant statements by many other people. The result is sure to be absolutely fascinating.
What if we gave people a forum in which they could lay their cards on the table? This is what I want the world to know; this is what we need to do, or how we need to change. There's a need for What's Your Message? There isn't a central--and credible--place where you can go where you can read and compare definitive statements from credible, identified people.
The Citizendium is organizing this project quite frankly as a way to promote the larger Citizendium project, no more and no less. We do not believe that these articles will constitute reference material, and it is not likely we will link to any of them from our main article space. But we feel that a lot of people will want to get on board to work on their Messages. We hope they will, once they have their Citizendium account, be moved to improve the world further--by working as part of a credible, innovative wiki reference project.
Essentials
- You can replace your article completely no more often than once every year (unless you get special permission from the project's management). You can make edits to the article as often as you like, but we don't want you to use your Message Page as your personal blog. That's not what this is about. Your message should be one that will stand the test of time--one that you'll be able to agree with, and which will be just as relevant, next year.
I'll finish this later. Some of the rules will be similar to those in What's Your Article? --Larry Sanger 02:48, 23 September 2007 (CDT)
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