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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Submissions


From: Bob Dodd
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Submissions
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:15:11 -0800 (PST)

--- Bryce Harrington <address@hidden> wrote:
[snip]
> 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

What's important to me, is to be able to uniquely identify an article
for citation/elaboration.  It's not that you need to know *who* they
are as such, but I'd like to know if the orginal author has updated an
article, or if it was someone else (ideally you would know the author's
name: one important aspect of an entry is knowing the background of the
author e.g. I would like to know *who* wrote an article on Marx, since
the author's own view of the world may color the article. You don't
have to have it, but it makes the material more useful).

If people could apply for an (anonyomous) digital signature to use in
submissions, that would be enough. Something easy enough to copy/paste
into e-mail submissions... i.e. not part of the content held in the
encyclopedia, but known to the submissions s/w.

/Bob Dodd


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