That sure would be helpful. I imagine it will take some money. I've contributed twice my customary quarterly donation during this FReepathon, and I hope everyone else here will, too.
Whoops, I’m sorry, dalight—I messed up the italics html code in post 860, and appear to be taking credit for your idea on a FreeRepublic Wiki. Only the second paragraph in that post was mine.
You said: “What we need is a Free Republic Wiki that integrates with the threads so that we can access them and manage articles that summarize our understanding of each topic so that as new facts and info is added we don’t have to keep repeating ourselves in the threads to maintain a memory of what has already been established.
That sure would be helpful. I imagine it will take some money.”
You can start a free wiki at pbwiki. I don’t have time, but it’s ridiculously simple to set up and you can use WYSIWYG editor so that you don’t even have to remember various wiki editing commands. They let you set up any number of free ones, so the easiest thing would be to create 1 per issue (e.g. 1 for Obama’s birth certificate, as opposed to some huge wiki on all stuff related to Obama). That way, whoever sets it up could organize a basic outline of the site’s structure and people could add to it.
It would be helpful to have Jim Robinson create a section of links to such wikis, but once it’s set up and people have added some basic content, it will be a lot easier for people to find and point to relevant sections of the wiki rather than hunt through a bazillion posts etc. Moreover, by having everything all in one place, newbies to the issue will have a readily accessible way of getting up to speed and hopefully will be less prone to posting questions that have been asked and answered 10 times.