[Textop] How to put the Debate Guide Project into The Outline

[Larry Sanger]

All,

Here's how I see the Debate Guide being integrated into The Outline under
construction for the Collation Project on the wiki.  (Again, the use of a
wiki is temporary: this would be pursued as part of the more general Textop
pilot project.)

(1) A debate summary is started on a wiki page.  E.g., 
http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Does_God_exist%3F
This means that at least two people (one on each side of the question) and
perhaps a "moderator" (?) are willing to get started; they put their names
down on the page with suitable titles for their roles (e.g., "Affirmative
lead," "agnosticism lead").  This means that "sides" need to be designated
in advance.  As a convention, to distinguish the CP and DGP, we say that all
debate summary page titles are in the form of question, while no Collation
Project outline nodes are in the form of a question.

(2) The lead debaters (and anyone else who shows up) proceed to lay out
arguments on their sides.

(3) As this gets started, someone places, in a special font, color, and/or
text background, the question directly into The Outline, here:

http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Outline

For instance, part of the outline right now (woefully underdeveloped) looks
like this:

* Divinity

	* The Judeo-Christian God

		* Arguments for the existence of God

			* Best argument for the existence of God 

			* The cosmological argument for the existence of God


	* God personified


What I would propose is adding a line to the outline, like this:


* Divinity

	* <formatting>Debate guide: [[Does God exist?]]</formatting>

	* The Judeo-Christian God

		* Arguments for the existence of God

			* Best argument for the existence of God 

			* The cosmological argument for the existence of God


	* God personified


What do you think?  Is anyone game for actually getting such a thing
started?

Well, I'm just going to make a proposal on the wiki!  I'll link to it from
the main page.

--Larry