Re: [Bug-gnupedia]More on article persistence

[Tom Chance]

--- Rajarshi Guha <address@hidden> wrote: >
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.

Nupedia supports that. GNE supports NO editing, and
(when we sort out a preliminary system) only a very
open moderation system to weed out binary bombs,
adverts and articles like "hi mum!". The content of an
article should never be changed by anyone! That
defeats the whole idea of the GNE part of the project.

Tom Chance

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