Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal

[Tom Chance]

> > I say let's go ahead and start using it NOW.   
> > In fact, I have just posted an encyclopedia entry
> there, myself:

Um, what have people like Hector and RMS been warning
about over and over? Jumping at the first thing we see
that we like, and not thinking about it. Bob is quite
right... its not what we want, it does a half arsed
job. We can make a far better system ourselves. You
may as well see Windows and think "yes! thats great,
lets use it" instead of spending years steadily
developing Linux, BSD, Solaris etc.


Tom Chance



> 
> I know what you mean, but it's not usable for an
> encyclopedia in its
> present form. For one thing, not only is there no
> editorial control,
> there is now way of *really* knowing *who* has
> modified articles
> (although you can tell that they have been). Being
> able to add your own
> entries/subjects is fine, but you should not be able
> to modify other
> articles without the author's permission e.g. I've
> added "[xxx]" to
> your article, just to make the point (you're welcome
> to remove it).
> 
> There are also big problems in terms of organisation
> of information in
> this sort of Wiki (e.g. properly handling synonyms).
> I'm not saying
> these sort of tools don't provide a good reference
> model in many ways,
> but they aren't even 20&% of what we need.
> 
> /Bob Dodd
> 
> 
> 
> 
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