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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia


From: Bob Dodd
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:15:57 -0800 (PST)

--- Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:
> I agree. Nupedia to me seems like a missed
> opportunity, by going too far towards editorship and
> effectively making a slightly more free, web based
> version of britannica with no copyrights etc.

To be fair, it's a significant improvement on Britiannica: free to use,
free to copy, and potentially at least, more extensive.

> This is why I believe Gnupedia (or whatever it gets
> called) should be a seperate project sharing articles.
> This way those of us (like Bob and I) who want no
> editorship can have our own approach, and those who
> want some editorship go to Nupedia. Why merge them and
> complicate it unecessarily by having "off-shoot"
> projects. Why not just give each project equal,
> inepedent importance?

Well, it is in principal possible to combine the projects (butr not the
submission routes), I think Duncan has already suggested merging the
database side of things: it's certainly one of our strengths, and we
would both benefit from sharing articles (there's nothing Nupedia could
submit that we would reject, and the quality would generally be very
high...) and Nupedia would get a decent mirrored database out of it.
They would also have the opportunity to "take over" submissions from
our side of the fence where Nupedia were happy with the basic content,
and include them in their own peer-review process (assuming they can
get agreement from the authors to do so). Basically it would be
win-win.

What would be needed is an acceptance that there are two ways to submit
material, one through Nupedia, and one through Gnupedia (we really ahve
to change our name). We would need to ensure that Nupedia's material
was easy to identify so that their view of the database remained wholly
uncorrupted by anything we may add.

So, we would have a common repository, common "core" code to filter the
content, but have two (or more...) views of the same data.

Personally, I still wouldn't be interested in, say, just
fixing/improving the Nupedia database, or indeed submitting entries, if
the only input route was their editorial policy. But their editorial
policy *is* a valid view of the world, if not one I subscribe to, and
so long as it's not the only submission route, I don't have a problem
with it.



/Bob Dodd



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