[Bug-gnupedia] Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Editors or not

[Tom Chance]

I think the scope of this project is that you could
get many different views on the definition of
democracy. If you want a straight forward westernised
view of the world, go to Encarta or Brittanica. The
whole point is to allow lots of views on articles to
be put up all under one topic. So if you search for
"democracy" there would be an article with many
reviews giving alternative ideas, and then other
articles relevant to democracy. Sure it would take
longer to read and find out what democracy is, but
thats ok because you'll get a much, much better
definition!

Another problem actually is how do you decide when an
article is a new subject, or a subtext to a previous
one. Because you wouldn't want a miriad of articles on
the definition of democracy. But, for instance, if
there was already "democracy" and I added "capitalism"
some might say that's a component part of democracy
and so should be in the democracy definition (believe
me some would) but others believe is totally
different. Unless perhaps a search gave Primary
subjects (democracy) and Secondary articles
(capitalism perhaps).

Thom Chance


--- Jens Blanck <address@hidden> wrote: > Hi,
> 
> I think there is one important benefit of editors
> that have not been
> discussed so far. If a user looks up "democracy" he
> is most often only
> interested in *one* definition of the term and
> perhaps spelling and
> pronounciation. With a publicise all policy that
> several people seem to
> prefer we make it very hard to use the GNUpedia in
> this way. The GNUpedia
> will probably give any number of hits for
> "democracy" after a while and
> there is no guarantee that any sort of search engine
> could pick out a
> definition from any other discussion of "democracy".
> 
> What I'd like to see for any word is a short
> definition and a number of
> links to full articles, related notions, and so on.
> I believe that the
> only way to accomplish this is to have an editor
> with rather strong
> capabilities.
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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