U.S. Congress: Congresspedia
…the “citizen’s encyclopedia on Congress” that anyone—including you—can edit. Congresspedia is a not-for-profit, collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org) and the Sunlight Foundation (http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/) and is overseen by an editor to help ensure fairness and accuracy. Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a wiki-based website documenting the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.
Congresspedia is a subset of the SourceWatch wiki, which both operate similarly to Wikipedia, the best-known wiki Congresspedia and Sourcewatch are different, however, in that they have paid editors. The editors’ job is not to monitor and control all of the daily progress on the wiki, but to be a resource to the users, an arbiter of disputes and serve as one of the many fact-checkers and editors on the site…
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:57 am
[...] Think of this as your bonus Resource of the Week. With the elections less than a week away, we would be remiss if we failed to call your attention to a truly unique, helpful and informative website. We did mention Congresspedia — the “citizen’s encyclopedia on Congress” — here back in August. Right now is a good time to give it another look. [...]
October 9th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
[...] the “related” Congresspedia and other sites and tools from the Congresspedia team. We first mentioned Congresspedia over a year ago and then featured it as a Resource of the Week in November, 2006 . [...]