Re: [Bug-gnupedia] My two "centimes"...

[Imran Ghory]

On 22 Jan 2001, at 0:09, Mehdi TIBOUCHI wrote:

> I'm very concerned about censorship issues as well. As most seem to
> agree by now, I am of the opinion that there should be as little as
> possible. Ideally, there should be none, i.e. any submitted material
> should be made available to the public at once, and classified and/or
> rated afterwards, but never rejected as long as it meets the required
> freeness criteria. Now even this is a problem. Who should be entrusted
> with checking whether some submitted article isn't plain rubbish and
> complies with our freeness standards? 

In the thread "A system of moderation" I suggested that it was 
done by a voting procedure by a review body. 

It could also work by having a large review body and for every 
article pick a random selection of people from the review body to 
review the article.

This will also hopefully stop a group trying to infiltrate the review 
group and damage the system. (Also we could have the ability to 
vote in/out people of the review body, only allowing "older" 
members to vote out "younger" members, this would mean as long 
as we are reasonably balanced at the start we'll be able to recover 
if the review body is infitrated).

>* someone might
> send non-free material by lack of knowledge (or even
>   mischieviously). This shouldn't be a problem if we reject any
>   article not licensed under GFDL or not containing appropriate
>   disclaimers, but I'm not a lawyer, and even less an international
>   one (and laws seem to benefit to people with money rather than
>   people with ideals).

GPG signatures will also means if someone has entered dodgy 
articles then every article by that entity could be pulled from the 
encyclopedia.

> * you don't want an author to classify his article himself or have
>   it reviewed by some friend. That's always an issue though.
> * probably more.

(What do you mean by classify ?)

If it's done by a group then it will filter out that sort of problem. 

Imran Ghory