Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Just a few issues

[Bob Dodd]

--- Toby Tremayne <address@hidden> wrote:
> The ability to update your article I think is a great idea.  If
> perhaps
> things could be set up to submit an article through a web interface
> rather
> than by email, then you could require a submitter to quickly
> reguister and
> log in.  From there a user would be able to update and correct an
> article
> later on - bearing in mind that there would have to be some
> notification of
> an update/edit to the moderators.

There is a problem with versioning here.  If we allow uncontrolled
changes, how would anyone be able to cite entries in the 'pedia in
their own work? If you allow updates (generally a good thing) it needs
to be versioned, and the old versions need to be still accessible.

There are lots of clever ways of doing this, but the easiest would be
simply to submit a new entry for each update and use XML tags to record
version numbers/sequencing. 

/Bob Dodd





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