Re: [Bug-gnupedia] External Links

[Tom Chance]

We can't have external links as articles themselves.
We're not a web diretory! The idea is to have a
coherent collection of information, not a slightly
more controlled Google search engine! All articles
must be written for and put onto GNE. 
In terms of external references, the danger is that
the link becomes broken (I like the idea of the
redirection utility checking and flagging a link), or
that the page changes its content to either something
irrelevant or non-free. We don't have the manpower or
will to go around checking thousands of links to make
sure they conform to the GNU policy. So I think any
references should be internal, or names of
books/companys/web sites (with no links).

Tom Chance 


--- Dan Geiser <address@hidden> wrote: > Hey,
Josh!
> Thanks for participating in the discussion.  We need
> some more voices.
> 
> > > NO external links! Not until we can insure we
> won't
> > > have broken links and links to sites that
> violate (or
> > > in future change and violate) our own policies.
> >
> >Just to be stubborn and pound my own idea again:
> >
> >I feel (agree?) that we shouldn't have external
> links as primary
> >resources.  I think it would be appropriate to
> allow external links as
> >references in articles, so long as we clearly
> distinguish between >internal 
> >links and external links.  We could then make it
> clear that >external links 
> >are in no way cared-for or under the umbrella of
> the >GNUPedia.
> >
> >But, hey, even that may be a bit too liberal. 
> Dunno.  A thought, >anyway.
> 
> I guess it depends on what you mean by primary
> resources.  My own thinking 
> on the subject is that any hyperlinks in the body of
> any articles would only 
> link to other topics within GNE.  It would be nice
> if we could GNE to 
> auto-index itself and create these internal links on
> the fly.
> 
> I would think that any external links would have to
> be clearly marked as 
> such and the user would know that they were leaving
> the site (or opening 
> another) window if they clicked on them.
> 
> I would like Articles and External Links to be
> considered as types of 
> resources.  I didn't want them to be the sum of the
> resources.  I'd rather 
> if the resource list be extensible so when we come
> up with new ideas for 
> resources.
> 
> On the front end users could be given the option to
> enable different types 
> of resources, i.e. just articler or articles and
> external links or articles 
> and pictures or sounds and articles, etc.  I'm
> trying to conceptualize a 
> taxonomy for the different items that would be of
> interested to a GNE user 
> and/or contributor.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan Geiser <address@hidden>
> 
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