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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/encyclopedia free-encyclopedia-1998-draft.html |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:45:22 -0500 (EST) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/01/04 08:45:22
Modified files:
encyclopedia : free-encyclopedia-1998-draft.html
Log message:
Fix the translist; update to boilerplate 1.95; restyle.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia-1998-draft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
Patches:
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@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.95 -->
<title>The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource (1998 draft)
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-<!--#include virtual="/encyclopedia/po/free-encyclopedia.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<h2>The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource - (1998 draft)</h2>
+<h2>The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource (1998 draft)</h2>
-<img src="/encyclopedia/logo.png" alt=" [Encyclopedia logo] " class="imgright"
style="width:10.6em" />
-
-<h3><a href="/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html">Latest Version</a></h3>
-
-<p>by <strong>Richard Stallman</strong></p>
+<img src="/encyclopedia/logo.png" alt=" [Encyclopedia logo] "
+ class="imgright" style="width:8em; max-width:20%" />
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+<p><strong><a href="/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html">Latest
Version</a></strong></p>
+<div class="thin"></div>
<p><i>This is a 1998 version of my plan for a free universal encyclopedia
plus learning resource. I sent it to the organizer of an ACM SIGCSE
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
there; I assumed that they were publishing something about my talk,
such as the text below, but in fact they did not. Crossed signals, I
guess.</i></p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
+<div class="article">
<p>The World Wide Web has the potential to develop into a universal
encyclopedia and a library of interactive self-teaching materials,
covering all subjects at all levels, all freely accessible for
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@
to learn. How can we ensure that progress continues towards this best
and most natural outcome? Here are some ideas.</p>
-<h4>Evangelize.</h4>
+<h3>Evangelize.</h3>
<p>Since we hope that professors and students at many universities around
the US and the world will join in writing articles for the free
encyclopedia, let's not leave this to chance. There are already
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@
systematically to the academic community, show the vision of the free
universal encyclopedia, and invite for others to join in writing it.</p>
-<h4>Small steps will do the job.</h4>
+<h3>Small steps will do the job.</h3>
<p>When a project is exciting, it is easy to imagine a big contribution
that you would like to make, bite off more than you can chew, and
ultimately give up with nothing to show for it.</p>
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@
job, and many of these small maps can survey the whole world of
knowledge.</p>
-<h4>Don't limit the scope.</h4>
+<h3>Don't limit the scope.</h3>
<p>The free encyclopedia has the potential to provide articles and
self-teaching materials on every imaginable topic. It should cover
all academic subjects from mathematics to art history, and practical
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@
back of our minds the vision of an free encyclopedia that is universal
in scope, and firmly reject any attempt to limit it.</p>
-<h4>Access for everyone.</h4>
+<h3>Access for everyone.</h3>
<p>The universal encyclopedia should be open to public access by everyone
who can access the web. There are some who seek to gain control over
educational materials, so they can profit by restricting access to
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@
access. Here we must stand firm.
</p>
-<h4>Permit mirror sites.</h4>
+<h3>Permit mirror sites.</h3>
<p>When information is available on the web only at one site, its
availability is vulnerable. Any sort of local problem--a computer
crash, an earthquake or flood, a budget cut, a change in policy of the
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@
But there is no need to make plans for this now. It is sufficient to
keep door open for people to do it later.</p>
-<h4>Permit translation into other languages.</h4>
+<h3>Permit translation into other languages.</h3>
<p>People will have a use for encyclopedia articles on each topic in any
and all human languages. But the primary language of the Internet--as
of the world of commerce and science today--is English. So it may
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@
publish a translation should not be in question as long as the
requested corrections are made.</p>
-<h4>Take the long view.</h4>
+<h3>Take the long view.</h3>
<p>If it takes twenty years to complete the free encyclopedia, we should
not feel impatient. That will be a blink of the eye in comparison
with the history of literature, a moment in the history of
@@ -139,9 +141,7 @@
job, we should think of them as examples, and have confidence that
they will inspire more and more contributors to join and finish the
job.</p>
-
-<p>Copyright 1998 Richard Stallman<br />
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -163,13 +163,13 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -190,8 +190,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014,
2016, 2020, 2021
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1998 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -201,10 +200,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2021/01/01 15:25:38 $
+$Date: 2021/01/04 13:45:22 $
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