Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Just a few issues

[Tom Chance]

True. I definitely think we need to let authors update
their work as they will most likely think of
additions, find new useful links,and find their old
links/information are now out of date. The ability to
correct spelling, grammar, and dialect to improve
understanding should be one in which the author puts
up the final version, so perhaps if you find errors in
a piece of work you can send an ammendment to the
author, and the author will be notified by email. He
can then update it as he wishes. This would also mean
people couldn't change the emphasis of the article, or
take undue credit.

What might be quite cool is if you signed up before
you added an article or reviewd one, and so that would
be a mechanism for notification of reviews, and you
could set preferences for that. There could also be a
link at the bottom of each article along the lines of
"more articles by this author".

Thom Chance
--- Bob Dodd <address@hidden> wrote: > 
> --- 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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