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Therese Godefroy |
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www/encyclopedia free-encyclopedia.html |
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Tue, 31 Aug 2021 06:35:46 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/08/31 06:35:46
Modified files:
encyclopedia : free-encyclopedia.html
Log message:
Weed out uncopyrightable years; remove unused 'subheader' class;
http > https; comma/period inside quotes; boilerplate > 1.96.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.34&r2=1.35
Patches:
Index: free-encyclopedia.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/encyclopedia/free-encyclopedia.html,v
retrieving revision 1.34
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -b -r1.34 -r1.35
--- free-encyclopedia.html 12 Mar 2021 09:21:52 -0000 1.34
+++ free-encyclopedia.html 31 Aug 2021 10:35:46 -0000 1.35
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.95 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
<title>The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/encyclopedia/po/free-encyclopedia.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<div class="reduced-width">
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource</h2>
<img src="/encyclopedia/logo.png" alt=" [Encyclopedia logo] "
@@ -16,7 +17,6 @@
Project</a></p>
<div class="thin"></div>
-<div class="article">
<p>The World Wide Web has the potential to develop into a universal
encyclopedia covering all areas of knowledge, and a complete library
of instructional courses. This outcome could happen without any
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
needs to do, what sort of freedoms it needs to give the public, and
how we can get started on developing it.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">An encyclopedia located everywhere.</h3>
+<h3>An encyclopedia located everywhere.</h3>
<p>
In the past, encyclopedias have been written under the direction of a
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
organization will be in charge, because such centralization would be
incompatible with decentralized progress.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Who will write the encyclopedia?</h3>
+<h3>Who will write the encyclopedia?</h3>
<p>In principle, anyone is welcome to write articles for the
encyclopedia. But as we reach out for people to help, the most
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
For students, a major school paper could become an encyclopedia
article, if done especially well.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Small steps will do the job.</h3>
+<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
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
contribution that many can afford to make. Enough of these small
contributions can cover the whole range of knowledge.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Take the long view.</h3>
+<h3>Take the long view.</h3>
<p>The encyclopedia is a big job, and it won't be finished in a year. If
it takes twenty years to complete the free encyclopedia, that will be
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
that they will inspire a growing number of contributors to join and
finish the job.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Evangelize.</h3>
+<h3>Evangelize.</h3>
<p>Since we hope that teachers and students at many colleges around the
world will join in writing contributions to the free encyclopedia,
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
the academic community, show the vision of the free universal
encyclopedia, and invite others to join in writing it.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">What should the free encyclopedia contain?</h3>
+<h3>What should the free encyclopedia contain?</h3>
<p>The free encyclopedia should aim eventually to include one or more
articles for any topic you would expect to find in another
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@
amount of encyclopedic material that can be on the web, this
encyclopedia should eventually also cover the more advanced and
specialized topics you might expect to find in specialized
-encyclopedias, such as an “Encyclopedia of Physics”,
-“Encyclopedia of Medicine”, “Encyclopedia of
-Gardening”, or “Encyclopedia of Cooking”. It could
+encyclopedias, such as an “Encyclopedia of Physics,”
+“Encyclopedia of Medicine,” “Encyclopedia of
+Gardening,” or “Encyclopedia of Cooking.” It could
go even further; for example, bird watchers might eventually
contribute an article on each species of bird, along with pictures and
recordings of its calls.</p>
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
attempt to put artificial limits on either the scope or the free
status of the encyclopedia.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Criteria pages must meet.</h3>
+<h3>Criteria pages must meet.</h3>
<p>To ensure this encyclopedia is indeed a free and universal
encyclopedia, we must set criteria of freeness for encyclopedia
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
their own curriculum plans and teaching methods. Since courses will
typically be large (like a textbook today), it would be unacceptably
wasteful to tell teachers, “Write your own from scratch, if you
-want to change this”.</p>
+want to change this.”</p>
<p>Therefore, modifying an existing course must be permitted; each course
should carry a statement giving permission to publish a modified
@@ -320,14 +320,14 @@
ensure that the encyclopedia is indeed free, all software included in
articles and courses should meet the criteria
of <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
-and <a href="http://www.opensource.org";>open source software</a>.</p>
+and <a href="https://opensource.org/";>open source software</a>.</p>
<h4>No central control.</h4>
<p>People often suggest that “quality control” is essential
for an encyclopedia, and ask what sort of “governing
board” will decide which articles to accept as part of the free
-encyclopedia. The answer is, “no one”. We cannot afford
+encyclopedia. The answer is, “no one.” We cannot afford
to let anyone have such control.</p>
<p>If the free encyclopedia is a success, it will become so ubiquitous
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
<p>It will be up to professors to resist this tendency. But there is
more than one way to do so. The most obvious basis for objection is
to say, “I own this work, and I, not the university, have the
-right to sell it to a company if I wish”. But that places the
+right to sell it to a company if I wish.” But that places the
faculty on the same selfish moral level as the university, so that
neither side has a moral advantage in the argument.
</p>
@@ -488,20 +488,19 @@
business is likely to drive even the elite universities out of the
most lucrative parts of the field.</p>
-<h3 class="subheader">Spread the word.</h3>
+<h3>Spread the word.</h3>
<p>When you post a potential encyclopedia article or a course, you can
reference this plan if you wish, to help spread the word and inspire
others to help.</p>
<div class="column-limit"></div>
-</div>
<h3 class="footnote">Works in Progress</h3>
<p>Here is a small (and probably incomplete) list of free encyclopedias:</p>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/";>Wikipedia</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/";>Wikipedia</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
@@ -552,8 +551,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014,
2016, 2020, 2021
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1999, 2004, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -563,10 +561,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/03/12 09:21:52 $
+$Date: 2021/08/31 10:35:46 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
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