This is a proposal for an informational MEP. Reference: http://www.mozart-oz.org/pipermail/mozart-hackers/2004/002119.html
"It began as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia on January 15, 2001." ... "The status of Wikipedia as a reference work has been controversial, and it is both praised for its free distribution, free editing and wide range of topics and criticized for alleged systemic biases, preference of consensus to credentials, deficiencies in some topics, and lack of accountability and authority when compared with traditional encyclopedias." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia "Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer-review process designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars to volunteer content for free." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia The discussion http://www.vendian.org/oz/wiki/index.cgi?Governance illustrates the problem nicely. The discussion itself presumes that what is needed is a system not unlike Nupedia. That is, where changes are governed, managed, controlled, released, pr oven, etc. The posting of the discussion on a wiki illustrates one reason why that level of control is important (the link was vandalized (I rolled it back)). The problem is that very few (any?) MEP have been submitted. ======================= The Proposal: Create a distributed change management system where: - each 'patch' is independently and multiply certified. - each 'system' is that collection of patches meeting specific certification requirements ======================= Preliminary Discussion/Explanation: This system would be created separately from the current system. For detail on what constitutes a patch see http://www.darcs.net/manual/node8.html There would be different types of patch certification: 1) Committee (mozart-oz board, iso, ansii, etc.) 2) Submitter (anonymous or signed) 3) Distribution (debian, red hat, windows, os/X, etc.) 4) Optimization (i386, Pentium, cell, etc.) 5) Management (notify when child patch created) 6) Organizational (business, colleges, governments, etc.) The default patch set would be mozart-oz board certified patches. A patch set would be composed of other patch sets, composed of patches selected by their certifications. There is currently a similar activity going on with WikiMedia: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_validation_feature Peace _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-hackers
