Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation

[Imran Ghory]

On 25 Feb 2001, at 3:20, Tom Chance wrote:

> I think this is overcomplicating it. What we have to
> remember here is that 99% of the people contributing
> to this project won't be half as dedicated as us. Many
> will be people who have been very generous in donating
> the time to find/write the article, and go to our web
> site with it. 

The fact that millions of websites exist indicate that people are 
willing to put some effort in, think about it this way, a lot of people 
who are going to be writing articles for the Encyclopeda are going 
to be writing on toipics on which they already have webpages and 
thus can upload an encyclopedia article fairly easily.

Remember we can just have a client side program which does 
most of the work for the authors.

> For us, and the scripts that will process this
> material, we also want as little work as possible
> whilst still hosting all the material. I would have
> thought the idea of having GNE host it as we had said
> before, and then having no published version official
> to GNE (only people's classifications) so that we
> can't be sued as publishers, was great! 

But we would still face the issues of abuse of the hosting.

> If we could just have a list of all the
> articles, which you can search/broswe/etc. and add
> whole subjects or groups in, that (I think) will be
> fine.

That would still be viable in the alternate system I proposed.

It would also mean we would spread the resource demand, we can 
do processing on the client side to ensure the article is technically 
correct, only minimal processing on the server which lists all the 
articles, ditto for the indexes. The only heavy processing would 
need to be done by the front-end, but even their load would be 
reduced as they would only have to search the articles they hold.

Imran