A new undertaking

A parishioner asked me today if there was any one spot a person could go to find information about bills, representatives and events that are important to know as a citizen protecting life. I must admit I was unable to give any significant references.

This has gotten me to thinking that it might be time to create a pro-life wiki. For those of you who may not be aware, a wiki (Wikipedia is the most popularly known) is essentially an online database that is edited by the same group of people who use it. In the most open cases, it is open to anyone to edit.

In this case, contributors would need to be vetted and/or confirmed by people in real life, but we could use social networking to get contributors to help share the workload of building something like this.

I’m curious if you have any experience with wikis or know anyone who does & would be interested. I have a test wiki hosted at my site that you can see – its basically an empty wiki, but a start: http://www.acts24.com/prolifewiki.

While I like to think that I am fairly net-saavy, the reality is that I do not know nearly enough about wikis to go this alone. Moreover, I simply don’t have the time! But that is the joy of a community-supported wiki. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to involve as many pro-life groups as possible, so if you would like to let others know, please feel free!

So, lets go!

- Fr. Maurer

(No, the blog isn’t going anywhere…. though it could stand to be updated more frequently.)