Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia

[Jimmy Wales]

I think this is a valuable suggestion, yes.

Our current software is good for our purposes, but not much use to others, I'm
afraid.  The only reason for this is that we have worried first about getting
our article production process in order.  The code is not general, etc.

We would be happy to host a more general effort to generate "encyclopedia tools"
software, or even more general "content management" tools.  And of course our 
existing
code (such as it is) is available as a (possible) foundation for such a project.

I *love* to see energy flowing in many directions at once.

Duncan Lock wrote:

> Hi,
>       Thanks Jimmy for some very useful points. Nice to hear from some
> nupedia people. 
>       Anyway, I've been thinking about your remarks and those made by
> others on this list. Given that:
> 
> > Absolutely!  Needed and most desired.  We have a strength in
> > content-people (academic professors who are writing and reviewing
> > and editing), but we could use technical help.
> 
> as you say you'd appreciate technical type help it seems to me that a case
> could be made for GNUPedia to be a software framework/ platform for
> creating/hosting/mirroring/running Open Content digital Encyclopaedia.
> nupedia.org to be an instance of a GNUPedia 'compatible' (using the GNUPedia
> framework) encyclopaedia.
> 
>       I.E. the GNUPedia project (people on this list, for the sake or
> argument) take the software and process you put together and expand it into
> a 'best it can be' general free software framework for free content 'pedias.
> You would then use this framework for running your nupedia.org site and
> serving your content.
> 
>       This is just a suggestion, an idea. What do you think?
> 
> Dunc
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