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Re: [Bug-gne]How Nupedia solves this


From: Mike Warren
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]How Nupedia solves this
Date: 20 Feb 2001 10:24:23 -0700
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Jimmy Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> This solution is not of much use to GNE, of course.

If it was, there'd be no point in having two different projects. I
certainly can't see the use of a ``competing'' free-encyclopedia
project...

> GNE wants to be something different.  (Something useless, I think,
> at least if some people have their way, but that's a different
> story.)  GNE is not concerned with truth, accuracy, or objectivity.
> GNE wants to achieve lack of bias through embracing all bias.

I think that unless GNE is more or less a repository of
appropriately-licensed (i.e. open) texts, then there is no point in
duplicating the quite-successful efforts of Nupedia; the projects
should just merge.

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