Today marks the official launch of dKosopedia, a wiki project that I’ve been working on the last few months along with some great members of the DailyKos community. Here’s how Kos is describing it in the “official” announcement :

I can almost hear you all thinking, “what the heck is a wiki?” It’s a collaborative website that will allow this community to build a political encyclopedia (from a liberal standpoint, of course). In short, anyone will be able to contribute encyclopedia entries on a variety of political subjects.

The best example of a wiki is the Wikipedia, which is an open source, collaborative encyclopedia with over 274,000 entries, all of them community submitted.

We hope the dKosopedia will become the progressive-political version of the Wikipedia, a political FAQ so to speak — a repository of answers to questions such as “how do I calculate a Margin of Error”, and “How are superdelegates selected?” and “What is a 527?”. It’s currently just a skeletal shell, but we hope it’ll grow into a main resource for community members and the general public at large. That’s where you guys come into play.

So head on over to the dKosopedia and look around. If you see something that’s missing or inaccurate, click on “Edit this page” at the bottom and you can update it yourself. That’s the beauty of the wiki concept : Anyone can change any page at any time.