Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation

[Hook]

Imran Ghory wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure we need even that. A web form which uploads a file from the
users' PC is trivial. The file arrives mime encoded, and a one-stop Perl
function decodes it. Works for images, text files, WAV's and anything else.

Paul