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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia


From: Hector Facundo Arena
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Nupedia
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:06:52 +0000

El Viernes 19 Enero 2001 17:38, escribiste:
> Bob, I acknowledge this difference, but I have two responses:
>
> First, I don't think that the difference is irreconcilable at all.
> Many people seem to think that Nupedia has a "set way of doing things".
> But, we are an open community with the freedom to experiment and
> the freedom to change things.  It is true that we have started out
> with a strong focus on _quality_.
>
> Second, if 'gnupedia' (and that name will change soon, Hector has
> assured me) wants to be a general repository for unfiltered/uncensored
> FDL texts, that's great.  I think that's a good idea for a project.
> But it isn't an _encyclopedia_; it's more of an _open library_.
>
> --Jimbo

I agree with Jimmy, when he say that theres no need to have to projects with 
the same ideological base (the idea of a free encyclopedia is just the same 
in the two projects).

If you want my personal opinion, I think we should change the title of 'free 
encyclopedia'  to something different beacuse *now* this project wants to be 
more than that. We can be a repository of free information. Other people 
could make projects of small/big/thematical encyclopedias using our database.

But as you may know, I'm not the only one who decides the things here. I have 
to talk with Richard Stallman to coordinate all this thing. Perhaps Nupedia 
could become the official GNU Encyclopedia and this project (still untitled) 
the official GNU Free Information Repository.

Please, be patient. RMS answers his mails one or two days after he receives 
them. So, we'll have to wait.

I just want to say that I'm happy of all this issue. We have one problem: we 
have lot of things to do and lot of people who wants to help, and that's 
great. So, we just have to coordinate efforts. 

-- 
Hector Facundo Arena
Home Page: www.arena.org.ar
e-mail: address@hidden

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