Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal

[Tom Chance]

Nice to see somebody else clarifying their ideas with
a web site :) Made it easy to follow your ideas!
I like the idea of having the optional proxy/editor
group. Certainly for spelling, grammar etc (or spag
;)) it would be needed. In terms of the editorial
role, I can see a difficulty. You would need to trust
the editors a lot not to remove stuff they just don't
like via voting. It comes back to the old "edison
didn't invent the light bulb" article or the "tianemen
square was a counter-revolutionary triumph" article.
If it came down the the vote, some may think "that's
factually innacurate" and vote no, some might just
think "what a horrible article" and vote to reject it,
even if thats not a valid reason (there's no way of
guaranteeing their reason is valid!). As such I would
have thought a positive voting mechanism would be
better (you can only vote "yes" for an article, one or
two yes votes gets it in, moderators are people who
have cotributed a lot to the project so they won't
want ot sabotage it). This will filter out most of the
"bad" articles, because if after ten days they're not
voted for, they dissappear. It will let some in
admittedly, but will give a greater chance for those
that might be worthy.


As the "Nupedia Integration", I think Nupedia is still
too strong a word to use. I think that if you went to
visit the project, you could enter EITHER Nupedia OR
Gnupedia (or whatever it gets called). We can share
alllll the articles we want, and keep in close
contact, but I think it would be beneficial to keep
the two projects slightly seperate, simply from the
point of view of technological and policy approaches.

Tom Chance



--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > I've
taken the ideas I posted about moderation and
> shown it 
> diagramatically and add details it's available at,
> 
> http://redrival.com/btifaq/mod.htm
> 
> It discussess my ideas on how we could have a system
> of 
> moderation, without having censorship.
> 
> I've also discussed how Nupedia could become
> integrated into 
> such as system without having to change a great deal
> while at the 
> same time not compromising the ideals of the GNU
> Encyclopedia.
> 
> BTW. Any chance of someone making some webspace
> available 
> where we can put all these possible design documents
> together ?
> 
> Imran Ghory
> 
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