WikiCandidate

{{Orphan|date=September 2016}}

{{Infobox website

| name = WikiCandidate

| logo = WikiCandidiate.png

| url = [http://www.wikicandidate08.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page WikiCandidate08.com]

| type = wiki

| language = English

| owner =

| author = Cornell University students and faculty

| registration = required (to edit)

}}

WikiCandidate was a wiki designed to collaboratively create a virtual political campaign for a fictional U.S. presidential candidate. Begun by students and faculty at the Cornell University Department of Communication, its content was intended to be a tool for understanding what characteristics the ideal candidate would have, as determined through a consensus among the community of users. For the university, the endeavor was a research project investigating online civic participation. The site was run on MediaWiki and registering an account was required to edit. All content on the site was published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.