Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Submissions

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Christopher Mahan wrote:

> Which brings me to another point.
> 
> Do we need a login/username system?
> 
> Can submissions/modifications be verified through email?
> 
> How much information is required of the authors?


Back up and ask the following question:  Why do you need to pin down who
the author is?  Possible answers:  Giving credit, copyright ownership,
passing along legal issues, borrowing credentials, preventing or
controlling collaboration...  Then for each ask, are there more than one
way to do it?  Will everyone wish to do it one way, or will some wish
for a different way?  If GnuPedia can only support a single way of doing
it, can they afford losing those articles that cannot comply?  What is
gained from verification?  If someone works around your verification
system, how badly does that compromise things?  Is it important to
maintain a one-to-one author-article relationship, or is it acceptable
to have community ownership of the articles, and not worry as much about
the author?

Bryce