Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Peer Review, Article Formats, (not)Censoring,

[Hector Facundo Arena]

El Miércoles 17 Enero 2001 14:58, escribiste:

> Now for some technicalities:
>
> 1) I feel that plain HTML is the format we want. GNUPedia can issue a
> template (example) article which authors then edit.  Many scientific
> journals issue similiar TeX templates for submissions to their journals.
> The complaint that HTML might be difficult to write in is mute.  If you
> want to submit an article, read up on how to do so.  That said, we should
> have some tutorials on article writing.  I think frames and layers should
> not be allowed (they will cause trouble with navigation around the
> encyclopedia).  MathML should be included if possible, although I have no
> idea what support for MathML is like.  Animated gifs would be fine (unless
> they gif license would cause a problem).  I'm uncertain as to what else to
> include.

We'll accept plain-text files, so that would be no problem.


> 2) Here's my list of meta-information which I feel should go into an
> article:
>       author's name, email address, homepage
>       date of last update, date of first writing
>       reviewer's name, email address, homepage, digital signature
>       date of review
>       copyleft information

It's ok to start.

> Multiple authors and reviewers should be allowed.  I don't think we need
> much more than this.  Keyword searching is not the way to go.  Google
> kicks butt.  I rest my case.

Totally agree. 

> 3) Linking to non-article content is going to be tricky.  The two cases
> I've thought of so far are linking to non-HTML content (images, applets,
> audio clips, movie clips) and linking to other webpages which are not part
> of the encyclopedia.  I think Richard Stallman's announcement suggested
> that GNUPedia not link to other webpages unless they either fall outside
> the scope of the encyclopedia (e.g. CNN.com website) or are part of the
> encyclopedia.  I would suggest that links to other GNUPedia articles be
> mark as such (with a little [*] or something next to the text being
> linked) while links to outside websites be left plain or separated out
> into a special reference section.  The problem with images, applets, etc.
> is that is difficult to make them an official part of the encyclopedia
> since we have little control over the format.  Reviewers might not be able
> to sign images or applets within an article, for instance.  Thus an author
> might alter an image without changing breaking the signing of an
> article.  At the very least the copyleft notice in the article should
> guarantee that all images, etc are included in the copyright.  Linking in
> general needs a lot of thought.  How do we stop links breaking?  Should
> links to articles on different servers be marked differently?

I think linking to other web pages is part of the freedom of the 
encyclopedia. We should add a note saying that the GNUPedia mantainers are 
not responsable for the content on that site. That's all.

Obviusly, someone's will check that site before posting the article.

> Lastly, I feel that censorship will be an issue with the
> encyclopedia.  Art, and most pornography falls into this category for some
> reasion, is not within the scope of an encyclopedia unless the artwork is
> particularly famous.  For instance Boticelli's (sp?) "Venus" would almost
> definitely make a showing, and the cover of Playboy's first issue might
> too.  The bunny-of-the-month from hamster.sex however is recent news and
> should be in the encyclopedia.  Historical issue's (Nazis,
> Apartheid) will be covered in their proper place.  So will medical issues.
>
> Ciao
> Simon Cross
>

When an article of that kind arrives, we will vote for it post.

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Hector Facundo Arena
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