My wiki:About

This is a mediawiki project administered by Citizens for Balanced Growth http://citizensforbalancedgrowth.org

The idea came from the realization that crowdsourced information might be a great way for us to help fulfill our responsibility as a Educational 501(c)(3). In our effort to gather and disseminate relevant facts about complex development issues on the horizon, we realized that there are a great number of people who have extensive knowledge that they might eagerly share. Since the sharing of knowledge is the essence of education, the wiki approach may be of tremendous benefit.

Another recurring quandary (read:frustration) about community development is that it is typically arduous for concerned residents to sift through the mountains of government documents in order to easily conceptualize the heart of a given matter with confidence that crucial facts and figures have not been lost in the confusion. This format of the "editable encyclopedia" permits efficient information formatting and unlimited citations in a manner that leaves less room for doubts and obfuscations that can become commonplace in public discourse. We hope our community finds it useful.