Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Various issues

[Justin Zeigler]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:00:23PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Imran Ghory wrote:
> 
> > Are we going to just have long articles (as now appears traditional 
> > in computer encyclopedia) , or are we going to allow smaller "quick 
> > shot" entries as well (as is more common in small book 
> > encyclopedias) which don't bother with bibliographies and the like.
> 
> Very good question...
> 
> Hmm, I'd imagine that for each topic, we'd want one of each, such that
> cataloguers can pick and choose whatever's most appropriate.  E.g.,
> Nupedia might wish to only accept long bio's on medieval kings, whereas
> someone assembling The Encyclopedia of Architecture might prefer having
> the "quick shots" versions of the bio's.
> 
> Bryce

hrm...
Why worry about duplicate content entry's? what if I want to create 
an encyclopedia for children age 5-7? My entry's on aeronautics would
not be the same as those in a "physics" encyclopedia. 

Essential my view is that a GNU/Alexandria project would be an index
or catalog of all GFDL documents. In my opinion this would offer the
greatest value to the rest of the world. This project has the ability
to be the keystone in ALL information becoming GFDL.

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