RE: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia

[Christopher Mahan]

There's a difference between the GNE of the future with 12 million articles 
in it and Usenet: You can't link to other Usenet articles.
The whole point of GNE is that the articles with value to an author can be 
permanently linked by that author in his/her article.

There has been ample discussion on how to establish these links on this 
list, such as ID numbers stored in a central DB.

So while there may be some of everything, the articles that best reflect the 
"though of the day" would be linked more often, and the fringe ones would be 
linked less.

The classifiers, who would be independent of the articles themselves, could 
make whatever word lists or directory systems they want, linking to the 
articles they prefer. Someone doing an eastern religion directory would 
certainly include links to articles that are very different than those 
included by a space-exploration specialist.

The idea is that either of these people would find articles relating to 
their entries, of various level of value and quality, to be sure, yet in 
abundance.

As far as GNE being a social experiment, I doubt that not. As far as its 
ending up like usenet, I'd like to know what usenet has ended up being, 
exactly.

Chris Mahan




> From: "Hector Facundo Arena" <address@hidden>
>
> > Then it's not going to be an encyclopedia, is it?  It's going to be a
> > library concentrating on electronic submissions with the mandate
> > that anyone
> > who cares to put finger to keyboard has the right to add work to the
> > repository, with a few minor exceptions (as discussed - spam, mail
> > bombs/viruses and copyrighted work).
>
> Call it however you want. The project is called GNE :)
>
> > It's undoubtedly going to be one of the biggest and best social
> > experiments
> > going, and will probably end up like usenet.
>
> Well, I can't agree with that cos I don't see the future...

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