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Here's a proposed moderation design for the GNU Encyclopedia, by Imran Ghory.<br><br>

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Nupedia in this way could become a factually reliable front for the encyclopedia which provides a strong moderation style. Nupedia could also have people searching through the articles to find articles which would pass Nupedia's style of filtering, Nupedia could contact the authors of these articles and request the author resubmit the article via the Nupedia proxy group. Most authors would be likely to accept such an offer as Nupedia reputation as a reliable factual source would make it more likely that the article will be accepted by other indexes.

I think this would provide the best combination of the <nowiki>GNU Encyclopedia/Nupedia</nowiki> as it would emphasis the strengths of both without comprimising either.

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Comments appreciated, preferably via the bug-gnupedia mailing list, but I can also be contacted directly at <nowiki>ImranG</nowiki>@btinternet.com. Or list below:

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I added Imran's article above. I'm uncertain about the classification approach ("mainstream" seems hard to define, to me). I would advocate simply advertising a list of preferred classification tags, and let the author decide for herself where they'd like to be classified (if at all). Look at www.indymedia.org for an example of a system where they must balance the need to be open to all, yet filter out blather. Their approach is, rather than vote on each item, to use a traditional editor, but keep the process open (anyone can look behind the scenes to see what was not accepted.)

Also, as a *great* example of how indexes can be constructed dynamically and collaboratively, look at the front page

of THIS site. :-) The Nupedia folks laid out their idea of how to hierarchically index the material here, but anyone

coming to this page can generate their own unique index. E.g., I could say I want my encyclopedia to have this set

of topics be my index:

AlaskA -- AlTruism -- PhysicalScience -- TransporT

--Bryce