Here’s a very nice example of an advocate using the wiki function to make his or her case about a bill.
H.R. 1676, the PACT Act, would prevent tobacco smuggling and ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, according to its authors.
But a WashingtonWatch.com user points out in the wiki article for the bill, “Honest, law-abiding [...]
People have looked more than 1,000 times at the wiki article about H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009.
If you know a little more about the bill than the average person, and you want others to know what you know, you should be editing that wiki article. Here’s how.
An enthusiastic welcome to everyone visiting H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009 this week.
By your numbers, you have toppled the equine cruelty issue from the top of the “active bills” list. Bills float to the top of this list based on the number of visits, and the horse people have kept [...]
Soon, you’ll start to see a little counter on each bill page with the number of times that a wiki article has been viewed.
We put it there to measure how many times wiki articles are viewed, and perhaps to encourage potential wiki editors by showing them that a lot of people look there [...]
Happy Fourth of July!
What better way to celebrate the founding of our nation than . . . um, by . . . blogging?
But seriously, today is a great day to introduce the WashingtonWatch.com blog because, in a way, we try to deliver on the ideals for which this country was founded every day.
WashingtonWatch.com is meant [...]