Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Bias and formatting

[Hector Facundo Arena]

El Miércoles 17 Enero 2001 14:35, escribiste:
> Right, I think the peer review system is good but how
> do you account for viewpoints and bias? For instance,
> trying to get an unbiased article on the Bolshevik
> Revolution of 1917, or the first test tube baby, would
> be a nightmare as everyone has a different view. And
> its increadibly hard not to bring your views into your
> writing. So if an article is submitted and somebody
> has a view to the contrary, surely a system by which
> that view of the subject is made as much a part of the
> article as the original itself... as opposed to a
> review, which would be little more than a subtext.

I agree, but please don't miss the point. Peer review is something we can 
implement in the future.

> In terms of formatting, I think its obvious that every
> page has to have a similar format. A collection of
> pages in different layouts, colours and with different
> technologies behind them, would just be a big mess. If
> you just submit every article as a simple text file,
> and then make the site with a cgi script or something
> similar that would format the text file into the page,
> you would solve the problems of the same format and of
> knowledge in formatting in one. Plus it would help
> structure the 'pedia. Servers that host/mirror
> articles will have a database of text files and then a
> series of cgi scripts and html files. This will stop
> disperate articles being hosted on geocities and then
> soon dissappearing. And an upload page would be VERY
> simple to make if the articles were text files! Plus I
> think XML might be a abd move because we'll start
> evolving it into a 'pedia that's incompatible with
> certain browsers and OSs, which is exactly the sort of
> thing an open project should avoid.

I've received 50 mails from people suggesting to use XML for the documents. 
I'm not sure with that. We need something easier... common people doesn't 
know hot to use XML so we would have to translate it...

I think we should do a little HTML sheet for a basic encyclopedia article. So 
every article would initially look similar.

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