From: Tom Chance <address@hidden>
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Subject: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:53:03 -0800 (PST)
I agree with you entirely on the right/wrong point.
That is why I think the idea of a totally uncensored,
unedited resource as GNE will be is so exciting. But
there is a point behind having a "right/wrong"
encyclopedia as Jimmy and the Nupedia team are
building. It will be made obvious on Nupedia that
articles are edited. If you read an article, and think
that it is perhaps biased, you can go to GNE to read
up on a whole host of differing articles on the topic.
So you will be able to access a succint "definition"
of a subject, and an in-depth analysis that will
hopefully transcend all cultural and ideological
boundaries.
My only worry is that people often don't realise bias
(like the US press' bias towards US foreign policy).
So that if people go to Nupedia they might read an
article and not even think to go and look it up in GNE
too, and so GNE may be underused. I would have thought
it'd be helpful to, sometime in the future, work out a
system of linking in each article to relevant stuff in
GNE->Nupedia or Nupedia->GNE.
Tom Chance