Editing Text corpus

A '''text corpus''' is a body of text following certain standards, e.g. [[markup standard]]s such as a [[wikitext standard]] or an [[XML DTD]], or even just using a common [[glossary]].  The entire [[World Wide Web]] can be thought of as a single text corpus divided by languages, and by [[documentation license]]s.  There are tools specific to [[large text corpus]] analysis that are increasingly available for public use.

The [[public domain text corpus]] is quite large including all the US federal government material, [[Project Gutenberg]], and almost anything published prior to the [[20th century]].  Most of this is actually visible and searchable now.

There is a lot of material under ambiguous copyright in [[Netnews]] posted over the 1980s and 1990s.  Most of it is copyright the original author, but some is in the public domain explicitly.

The [[GFDL text corpus]] is also quite large and somewhat more robust, although under the influence of several [[enemy projects]] it is becoming less robust, and more likely to reflect the viewpoints of those projects, and not those who actually understand the subjects.  Contributions to the [[R&D wiki]] are part of this corpus, but, that does not mean that other contributions to the GFDL corpus, notably not those to [[Wikipedia]] or [[Disinfopedia]], should be taken as equivalently credible to those that are made via the Consumerium interface.  As it stands, this is the most credible of the various [[mediawiki]] front ends as it has the least autocratic and overtly politically biased editorial policy - most likely due to its [[value system]] which promotes [[transparency]] and [[accountability]], as opposed to being a "hobby" or "lobbying" project.  In time, the standards of the GFDL text corpus will likely be set here, not in the larger/other projects, which will become less trustworthy over time.

The [[Creative Commons text corpus]] is also quite large, and some think it may eventually eclipse the GFDL - if so it is the editorial standards of the CC, not those of the GFDL, that should succeed, as the latter are rigorously defined by [[Lawrence Lessig]] and others with some integrity that the operators of GFDL editing sites simply cannot claim.  [[Wikitravel]] for instance uses both the [[mediawiki]] user interface and the CC license.