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A '''GFDL corpus access provider''' or '''GFDLcap''' is a [[web service]] or other [[net media]], or potentially even [[email]] or [[CD-ROM]] distributor, that provides access to a large portion of the [[GFDL corpus]] [[open content]]. ''If it also has [[wikitext standard]] editing facilities then it is often referred to generically as '''a wikipedia''', because:'' == current options == The best known of these is [[Wikipedia]]. There is often some confusion between that project and the corpus, and this is often facilitated by[[Wikimedia]] which finds this confusion to be [[conflict of interest|in its own interest]]. ''This leads to some [[GFDL]] issues: notably the technical barriers to retrieval of text from some [[IP address]]es, and failure to clearly publish, or even [[XML export]], the complete list of contributors. Also, Wikimedia makes spurious demands for links even of other GFDLcap - these are not required by the GFDL and are effectively ads for [[Wikimedia itself]].'' [[Wikinfo]] and [[Recyclopedia]] are lesser known '''access provider'''s, in stricter compliance with the GFDL, to the degree that is possible given that it relies on [[XML export]] by [[Wikipedia]] for most content, and this export itself is not in compliance. ''Unfortunately, [[Wikimedia]] sysops choose to deal with this by engaging in [[vandalbot]] activity and [[denial of service attack]]s against [[Recyclopedia]], and threatening legal action against [[Wikinfo]] or [[GetWiki]]. This is likely due to commercial [[conflict of interest]] that is threatened by the evolution of these more democratic projects.'' [[Wikinfo]] takes a [[sympathetic point of view]], refusing to mix critical and sympathetic views in an article. ''This is a direct challenge to the [[neutral point of view]] [[wiki ideology]] that is promoted by Wikimedia [[usurper]]s, since that view gives maximum power to those who claim to be 'neutral' but are in a position of technologically granted power.'' Other corpus access providers focus on particular subsets of the material, and do not have facilities to automatically import via the Wikipedia interface: *[[Consumerpedia]] *[[Disinfopedia]] *[[Consumerium]] *[[Metaweb]] ''Presumably, if they adopt such facilities, they too will be attacked by Wikimedia.'' == challenges == There are several challenges common to all '''GFDL corpus access provider'''s: *agreeing on a [[wikitext standard]] and priorities to guide [[wiki code]] changes to accomodate it; ''[[GetWiki]] and [[MediaWiki]] are so far the only options.'' *meeting the rigid terms of the [[GFDL]] itself, especially with regard to [[attribution]] and [[source access]], i.e. to the original text written in the [[wikitext standard]], not the [[HTML]] form into which it is rendered for [[printable page|print]]s or presentation. ::lack of [[interwiki identity standard]] makes attribution quite unreliable ::having one [[standard wiki URI]] from which to retrieve the source, that can be easily predicted and made permanent ::[[interwiki link standard]]s so that differently-purposed or POV'd [[large public wiki]]s can link to each other *resolving [[point of view]] differences, to which there are several approaches: ::[[neutral point of view]] tries to do this always within one article, attributing disputed claims, but of course, a [[systemic bias]] then applies ::[[multiple point of view]] tries to separate views into articles of their own, e.g. as at [[Metaweb]] or via the "faction" system proposed at some wikis ::[[sympathetic point of view]] tries to separate positive and negative views, whatever that means *dealing with [[server load]], especially for [[full text search]] *inadequate PHP-based software like [[MediaWiki]] and [[GetWiki]] - a concern [[Metaweb]]'s supporters are paying particular attention to *compiling and [[collaborative filter]]ing to present adapted articles - a concern [[Consumerium]] takes very seriously *[[governance]] problems in deal with a very large group of editors, ''see [[rule of 150]] for one possible limit to this'' *Tracking with change to the [[GFDL corpus]] as a whole, so that the best material can be copied into those services interested in presenting it to their users. == future integration == There are proposals extant to track all changes to the GFDL corpus in any of the known '''access providers''', and perhaps simplify signup for [[jabber]] or other services that could serve as basis for [[interwiki identity standard]]. Such proposals are simplified by an [[interwiki link standard]] and [[standard wiki URI]], though they are not strictly required simply for tracking. There are also proposals to work with [[FSF]] and [[Creative Commons]] much more closely to ensure that abuses of the [[GFDL]]'s terms and spirit, end. The [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] will probably need to take some strong interest in this process, in order to make free use of freely edited texts.
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