User:JenniferForUnity

Welcome Wikipedia Editors of Unity08

I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of what Wikipedia expects in terms of editors interacting with each other. The article on spam is so "wikipedia centric" it only has rules about mobilizing editors on internal wikipedia issues (calling it "canvassing") and this isn't that... Anyway, it occured to me that the Unity Movement could use some wiki people and there might be wikipedians who would be interested to know that there was a wikispace where they can write about Unity08 without worrying whether their tone and content is "encyclopedic" or not.

The following people (other than me) have edited the Unity08 article: Jersey Devil, Sludge, Rehpotsirhc, Nat Krause, Wknight94, Daneanderson, Jtalledo, Grumpyyoungman01, Mineralè, Onemanbandbjm, and Appraiser. Just after writing this I'll be putting something on each of your talk pages (except for Nat Krause who appears to have just gone on a wikibreak) pointing here.

I started the Unity Wiki and a Unity Supporters Web Forum with the idea that they'd be good place for non hierarchical interaction and political organizing. I'm comitted to civility, pragmatism, compromise, and doing my best to refuse to "see the enemy" in other politically involved people (my preferred orientation is "friendly discussion and issues clarification followed by negotiation"). I'm a rank amateur at wikis and slowly learning how to be sort of in charge of one but I'd love it if people with more knowledge and more wiki wisdom than me were involved.

If any of you have advice or comments or criticism or would be up for helping... pretty much any input... I'd really appreciate hearing it :-)

- JenniferForUnity 01:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

An Introduction

Hello to whoever is snooping on me :-)

JenniferForUnity is the net name I use for political stuff on the net. Unity08 is the "profesional arm" of the Unity Movement and I guess in a weird way I'm sort of the leader of the "net roots" arm. I just bounce around and try to direct normal people who bump into the idea of Unity and want to do something about it towards other people like them. My hope is that something cool grows out of lots of peer-to-peer interactions by political amateurs... like me :-)

My biggest issue is election reform, specifically things like Ranked Pairs Polling and the Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by the Single Transferable Vote (which can be implemented to accomplish a Proportional representation version of Ranked Pairs), and more general "international voting standards" stuff like secure balloting, giving "voting rights" status as a human right, and having elections oversight be non-partisan.

Other Places I Have A JenniferForUnity Account

• The Unity08 Forums
• The Unity Wiki
• Campaigns Wikia
• K5
• LiveJournal
• Digg

Response to your inquiry

Thanks for noticing my edits. I do quite a bit of spelling correction when my attention is divided. Otherwise I write about Minnesota history, places, or people. I've also spent time today working on the God-awful article Renewable fuels (I'm not done yet). I'll add you to my LJ friends if you'd like. I didn't find JenniferForUnity there; what do you go by? Appraiser 02:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC) aka bchbum_98.