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Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation
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Tom Chance |
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Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation |
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Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:31:54 -0800 (PST) |
> > 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.
That they can, in the same was a Paul mentions below.
And I don't think a homepage is a fair comparison with
GNE, because those are made by people with enthusiasm
for a given topic (myself included). Professors,
teachers, and many other people both have little time
and have no particular wish. I don't think we're going
to have people knocking down our door to get their
article on GNE. We need to encourage them, make it
easy.
> > 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.
Indeed we can.
As for processing power, unless we use a single PII
450 to do the serving, I'm not sure processing power
is going to be much of a problem. Especially if we use
Perl, because then we can use a small bank of
interpreters to do the number crunching, and a main
computer to act as the "gateway", to hold the info
etc. We shouldn't offload our problems onto the users,
we should solve them all ourselves.
Tom Chance
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- [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Imran Ghory, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Bob Dodd, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Bob Dodd, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Bob Dodd, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Imran Ghory, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Tom Chance, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Imran Ghory, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Hook, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation,
Tom Chance <=
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Hook, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Tom Chance, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Hook, 2001/02/25
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Imran Ghory, 2001/02/26
- Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation, Tom Chance, 2001/02/27