Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > How about setting up a TWiki, such as is at freebooks.myip.org?
> > This way, we can all post documents and commentary freely to the 
> > site, with no central webmaster to bottleneck things up.  
> 
> We would certainly welcome discussion of this on wikipedia.com, a
> side project we've been playing around with at Nupedia.
> 
> It's there for you to use.  :-)  Welcome!

Ah, perfect!  And potentially a sign of solidarity, I hope...

I've posted Imran's article there.

Guys, this is EXACTLY what we need right now.  Yes, it can be improved
on, but *right* *now* this gives a good 50% of what we need for an open
knowledge base.  The server is there, the software is installed, it is
outside the Nupedia editorial process that some people disagree with,
it uses open source software, it's topic indexing is totally organic 
like we want, and it closes rather than opens the gap between us and 
Nupedia.  

I say let's go ahead and start using it NOW.  

In fact, I have just posted an encyclopedia entry there, myself:
   http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?search=SpacecraftPropulsion

Visit www.wikipedia.com, browse to a topic that you know something
about, and write up a paragraph or two on it, so you can see how it
works.

Now, there are some improvements that can be made, but I'll list
those in the next email.

Bryce