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GNUPedia Project Starting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-use-of-gnu dept.

Hector Facundo Arena writes: "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource (GNUPedia) Web page is online today. GNUPedia is a project for the development of a free encyclopedia. You can read more in the Richard Stallman's project announcement document. We invite you to participate in the project and join the mailing lists"

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  1. Re:Spelling 'mistakes' by istartedi · · Score: 5

    Perhaps someone could write an American English to Brittish English translator.

    Maybe they will add one to Babelfish, so that you can type in "I was smoking a cigarrette while pushing the pram" and get back "I was burning a fag at the prom"

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  2. Control by THB · · Score: 5

    Real encyclopedias are controlled by editorial boards that provide unbiased, fair and reasonable content. Judging from slashdot, and RMS' personal opinions I would conclude that is encyclodepia would be quite biased. In order to be of any use, it will have to be unbiased. If stallman is any judge of why people write free software, contributors will not want to write for it unless they can influence others opinions. We can see this right on the page with the comment about the "GNU system", sometimes called linux.

    Is this really the type of encyclopedia that you would want?