Metaweb:Projects
From the Quicksilver Metaweb.
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Beg Neal Stephenson to release Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from Diamond Age under GFDL or (better) dual GFDL and Creative Commons by-sa, so that we can complete it, and release it to real girls lacking primary school education access in real India and real China. It might also be of use to children in western countries, given the disintegration the quality of public education in the US particularly, to provide home schooling to children in inner cities. Stephenson better go patent the idea, though, if he wants to keep it in the public domain. With cell phone/pda technology today, we have the capability now of a fully ractive primer, where ractors would bid on work via an eBay/eLance type system and interact with children and their primers via the cellular networks.
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Form a consortium to better manage the GFDL text corpus as a whole. It may be wisest to work with Internet Encyclopedia on this, as it is English-only but also supports multiple point of view (like Metaweb). Also, Consumerium is intent on developing a fair formal system of resolving multiple views into one version that an individual consumer can trust, based on their own personal values. This may be useful in our content management too, if we actually care about the user seeing things they consider trustworthy to be a priority.
editing
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Difference, if any, between a Stephenson phyle and a Metaweb:phyle, and comparing with related concepts elsewhere, e.g. Consumerium concept of faction, OurAnswer.org's concept of faction, Wikipedia attempt at generic arbitrarion model without factions or phyles (failing badly, it seems), and Recyclopedia's more anarchist "direct democracy with faction fallback"
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Comparing Metaweb:intermediate page format with related projects elsewhere, e.g. Consumerium's format
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A real wikitext standard
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Surveying alternate technologies to suck in intermediate pages and manage editing, which do more than mediawiki, but might require custom coding; Consider replacing mediawiki with the much more functional GetWiki - see http://internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki
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Making pages accessible from mobile devices, e.g. using Python which is now supported by Nokia and PalmOS
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Define some Metaweb:public library and Metaweb:bookstore interfaces useful in these locations where people consult books and may have mobile devices on hand, or where computers may be accessible to provide additional information; Consider working more closely with Consumerium on such problems as book buying, possibly extending them to support Metaweb:public library functions for books one is not about to buy, but is consulting or about to read.