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


From: Tom Chance
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:46:48 -0800 (PST)

But GNE really isn't about being a web index. The
thing about the web is that it is full of so much
useless info, people's tacky homepages and corporate
adverts, that finding information on any topic is
impossible, even with the best of the search engines
and web directories available.

GNE would become a directory of information, all with
the same layout etc. and all carefully presented in an
easy to access way, and easy to search. The articles
themselves will obviously pass an "acceptance stage"
whereby they will need at least 1 or 2 people to vote
"yes" for an article to be submitted (with either no
"reject" option, or a very limited one). So you won't
get complete drivel, but they will not be edited and
so the whole resource will hopefully over time carry
no central bias. If people aren't sure about the
quality of their writing etc. we can offer helpers, so
you send the work to them, they send back to you an
ammended copy, and you submit your ammended copy
taking into account the suggestions of the helper. But
this is quite different from actually editing the
work, as here the author gets the final say and the
"helper" won't get to rework the direction of the
article.

Tom Chance

--- Jean-Daniel Fekete <address@hidden>
wrote: > Hector Facundo Arena wrote:
> 
> > We have to stop thinking on editorial issues. GNE
> will *not* have any kind
> > of elite selecting the articles of the
> encyclopedia. That's part of the
> > freedom and the spirit of this project. So, If it
> has good content, it'll
> > be part of GNE.
> 
> "Good content" is an editorial issue.
> I have to say I have strong objections againts the
> GNE project as it seems to
> evolve.
> I don't see how GNE differs from the WEB + Yahoo +
> <name your favorite indexer>.
> Why having GNE organize it if Yahoo does it already?
>  Why setting up server space
> if people are already connected?
> I have all my articles reachable from my web page
> and already indexed.  Why would
> I do something special to move them to GNE?
> Building a large corpus is more than colleting a
> buch of  articles.  The main
> point is the logical organization of the whole, not
> the number of items in it.
> 
> --
>   Jean-Daniel Fekete
>   Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 4 rue Alfred Kastler,
> La Chantrerie,
>   BP 20722, 44307 Nantes Cedex 03, France
>   Voice: +33-2-51-85-82-08  | Fax: +33-2-51-85-82-49
>   address@hidden |
> http://www.emn.fr/fekete/
> 
> 
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