Re: [Bug-gnupedia]More on article persistence

[Rajarshi Guha]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bob Dodd wrote:

> Are we planning to ensure article persistence i.e. ensuring than an
> article once accepted into GNE never dissapears?
> I'm not asking about physically *where* it will be stored, just how
> persistent that storage will be.


This is an interesting point. Additionally the question that arises is
what extent of persistence. GNE supports the concept of collaborative
editing - does this mean that after successive generations of editing, the
final document might have no resemblance to the opriginal -in this case
it would only be the idea of the document (or subject topic) that is
persistant.


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