Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Some ideas for GNU/Alexandria

[Tom Chance]

I personally think you're just the man for Nupedia. I
really don't think this project here is going to be an
encyclopedia. It makes more sense, and most people
(inc Hector and RMS) seem more interested in making
this a complete cultural + information resource. 

Tom Chance


--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > On 20
Jan 2001, at 13:43, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > > Richard Stallman suggested GNUcyclopedia
> > 
> > RMS should be the first to point out that allowing
> a project to shape
> > itself would be an important freedom... If it is
> "mandated" somehow
> > that the project be an "Encyclopedia" you are
> already limiting its
> > contributors. In many ways a library is a much
> more ambitious
> > undertaking, with broader scope and potential
> impact. 
> 
> I disagree, we risk just letting it turn into
> another web we have to 
> draw the line somewhere. Long articles are fine as
> long as they fit 
> into the criteria. But you wouldn't expect to find
> an article say 
> about Security on a Red Hat box in an encyclopedia.
> 
> If we run in the direction of an library we'll just
> end up like,
> 
> http://www.opentextproject.org/ 
> http://www.opencontent.org/
> http://www.gutenberg.net/
> 
> I think we should keep on the line of making an
> encyclopedia of all 
> views. Keep on the straight and narrow, keep our
> targets low(well 
> comparitively low), if in a years time we see a need
> for more of a 
> library then an encyclopedia it will be far easier
> to create a break-
> away open book project based on the encyclopedia.
> 
> Imran Ghory
> 
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