[sustran] (Fwd) FWD : Help in compiling encyclopedia

Frank Montgomery fmontgom at its.leeds.ac.uk
Wed Mar 22 21:44:57 JST 2000


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Open content encyclopedia calls for submissions about transportation

A major new encyclopedia project, Nupedia.com, requests expert
help in constructing an "open content" encyclopedia, planned to
become the largest general encyclopedia in history.  The project
has significant financial support, and its leaders and owners
are committed to a years-long, intensive effort -- to founding
an open, public institution.

If you are an expert in any subject, your participation in the
project will be welcome.  We are in need of well-qualified
writers, editors, and peer reviewers, and will be doing searches
for subject area editors.  Moreover, if you are a good writer
and researcher, you may be interested in contributing short
biographies, descriptions of cities, and other brief entries.

What does it mean to say the encyclopedia is "open content"?
This means that anyone can use content taken from Nupedia
articles for almost any purpose, both for-profit or non-profit,
so long as Nupedia is credited as the source and so long as the
distributor of the information does not attempt to restrict
others from distributing the same information.  Nupedia will be
"open content" in the same way that Linux and the Open Directory
Project (dmoz.com) are "open source."  As has been the case with
those projects, we plan to attract a huge body of talented
contributors.

Since making our initial press release earlier this month, over 800
people from around the world have signed up as Nupedia members,
including some very highly-qualified people (including Ph.D.'s
in very many relevant subject areas).

Because Nupedia will be open content, it will be in a
freely-distributable public resource created by an international
public effort.  It is not an exaggeration to say that your
contributions would help to provide an international public a
free education.  We believe Nupedia is, thus, a project worthy
of your attention.

If you want to join us or stay apprised of the progress of
Nupedia, please take a minute to go to the Nupedia website at
http://www.nupedia.com/ and become a member.  (Becoming a member
is quick, easy, and free.)

Thank you very much for your attention.

Larry Sanger, Ph.D. expected May 2000 Philosophy, Ohio State
Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia.com
San Diego, California

P.S. If you wish to help promote this project -- something we
would greatly appreciate -- please do forward this announcement
to any *appropriate* forums and to colleagues you think may be
interested (including your local/departmental mailing lists and
newsgroups).  Or, if you would rather that Nupedia make the
announcement on a forum you frequent, please just give us a
pointer to the forum and we can take it from there.



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