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RE: prune inactive topics?
The links to the ERC section was removed from the main page. Now there is a
change show as * fix erc docs link* and the link to the ERC area now appears
at the bottom of the main page. It used to be in the main menu.
Under *SiteNavigation* That link now says:
*Also on this site are the proceedings of the Boulder County
ElectionReviewCommittee (unrelated to CVV).*
The timestamping shows that this was done on Nov 17th, but my last visit to
the recent changes page didn't show list entry at all. The last entry for
Nov17 was the *prune inactive topics* and *move inactive topics from
frontpage to here* which is when the ERC link was moved to the Resources
page.
Someone with far more Wiki know how and access than mere mortals like me
just added the ERC link back to the bottom of the main menu and then
readjusted the history. Most of those involved during the work of the ERC
understand the difficulties that I had in getting this information on the
CVV website. The whole business just seemed counter-intuitive to me. I can
hand code HTML and java, but this is some sort of *user friendly* text
processor that is neither user friendly nor well documented. I found it to
be a giant pain in the ass.
A look at the wayback machine confirms that revisionist history is afoot.
Whoever did this could have just fessed up and said *oops* instead of fixing
it and pretending it never happened, or making denials of wrongdoing. I
accepted it as simple loss of forethought. No reason to hide and change
records. ... Geez
I'm broadcasting this here for the simple reason that ANYONE could have done
this. Anyone can modify the CVV site. You don't have to have any kind of
special clearance or passwords or anything. It's a community project.
I'm sure that my priorities are skewed in that I was an ERC member and
consider the work that we did very important. That work has been almost
entirely ignored by the clerk and her staff (exactly as Ralph said it would
be).
The commissioners haven't been as disrespectful. It's fairly obvious from
their comments and actions concerning the clerk's budget that they aren't as
willing to screw the voters and taxpayers as the clerk is.
The problem that arose in the past few days was that ERC members and other
election activists wanted to refer the BoCC and staff to the ERC reports
online, but couldn't navigate the site to find them. Yep - as Joe points
out - the content hasn't moved, but if we can't easily navigate to find the
content then it is hard to make references to it.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:30 PM
To: CVV
Subject: Re: prune inactive topics?
I don't see this change. The ERC report is still downloadable at:
http://coloradovoter.net/moin.cgi/ElectionReviewCommittee
Last change appears to have been 11/17 to update or fix some links,
the IP address is listed on the changes page (it's not mine).
Joe