As we get further away from the legislative reset in June 2016, the more Atlasian law has diverged from real life law. Thus it becomes more and more important, especially so that newbies can find out what is different and be able to get their bearings, that the statute pages on the wiki be updated and be kept up to date. Along with the main page, the Constitution, and the Election Index, the statute pages are the four most important pages on the wiki.
And these four were always kept up to date pre-reset. Even in the depths of the 2015 deluge, just days before Sh@$T hit the fan, none other than Attorney General Al, updated the statute pages on the
wiki. Probably why he tried to destroy me a month later... Also the thread name for that was taken from a similar one in 2010.
Several things are different now. For one thing the Attorney General is no longer tasked with this. Second of all, we have a cabinet level position dedicated to updating the wiki.
Lastly, updating it has never been easier since virtually all bills passed since March 2017 have the links for both the Senate and House debates contained within the text of the bill itself. These were advantages that the pre-reset updaters like Bgwah, Nix, Al and Scott (among many others) never had.
And yet the statute pages are almost a year out of date, during which we have had some of the most productive Congressional Sessions since the reset. And the longer this is delayed the harder it is going to get. Now I am not trying to point fingers at anyone in particular. When Transit took over the roll of Archivist, we are already six months behind and he has done good work with his by request updates.
That being said we cannot continue to let the statute pages, Amendments (which have been partially updated by LT), and the Election Index (Doesn't even have April in it, yet April has a page) fall by the wayside. If we do, it will in short order become necessary to engage in yet another legislative reset, lest the game become impenetrable to new members in terms of understanding the state of law, especially since there are great differences on big issues like Healthcare and the tax code, to a multitude of small things (the bazillion regulations Mr. R is axing).
Therefore as part of the transition, I am considering all options for how to approach the task of updating and keeping the wiki updated.
I also ask that all those with wiki access who are available/willing to assist in catching up to PM myself and DFW. One thing I will say is that despite years of working on the wiki, I am by far not an expert at it and the last thing I want to do is to turn an outdated section into an unreadable mess. So as opposed to a stampede of people doing their own thing, I would rather have a controlled effort, that is dedicated to quality control as much as it is quantity of updates. This will be separate from the application process in the transition office thread and these will not be positions that exist beyond the task at hand.
https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Statute_(post-reset)Also Relevant:
Amendments
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=288476.0White House Threads (since Reset)
Fhtagn
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=272198.0Goldwater
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=271303.msg5796614#msg5796614dfw
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=260024.0Yankee
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=256019.0Blair
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=253504.0Truman
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=251007.0 Leinad
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=239985.0
