[Wikipedia-l] Easton's Bible Dictionary

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu
Sat Aug 10 06:48:10 UTC 2002


Neil Harris wrote in part:

>How about, as was suggested before by someone else, a new namespace: 
>something like "PDresource:" that can be used by auto-uploaders to get 
>PD info into a Wikified format without polluting the main namespace, but 
>can then be used as source material for the 'pedia by human contributors.

Something like this would be a good idea.

There's a difference between a direct upload
and the ordinary draft status of most of Wikipedia,
where at least the contributor thinks that the article is good,
at least to the extent that it's been written
(and hopefully leaves notes about the gaps).


-- Toby Bartels
   <toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu>



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