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The Textop project will be put in a "back burner" state until 2007 or 2008 by project director Larry Sanger, who has decided that his energies are better spent on a new project.
This is the pilot project wiki for the Text Outline Project (Textop for short), a project associated with the Digital Universe Foundation. We do not intend to use this wiki long-term. Our plan with Textop is to create brand new software, but we are making prototypes using this wiki.
Textop is developing into a set of four subprojects: the Collation Project (now being prototyped), the Debate Guide Project (now being prototyped), the Analytical Dictionary Project (pre-prototype), and the Event Summary Project (pre-prototype). These projects will be managed by a strong collaboration among a global group of scholars, with the aim of organizing the information contained in books, dictionaries, opinionated essays, and news articles — and perhaps other sources — into a single outline of human knowledge. Built by volunteers, the result will be free and noncommercial, with any financial support of staff managed by non-profits.
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Textop Pilot Projects
General notes on using this wiki for pilot projects
- Why a pilot project
- Using the wiki to prototype of other Textop subprojects
- Pilot project management
Debate Guide Project pilot
- How to construct a debate summary — tutorial — how-to guide for individuals to get started — read this if you want to get involved!
- Textop mailing list — at least for now, we'll use this list for general Debate Guide Project discussion
Collation Project pilot
- How to collate a text — tutorial — how-to guide for individuals to get started — read this if you want to get involved!
- Tutorial videos
- Textop English Language Philosophy list - most of the organization of the pilot project will take place here, so if you're interested, subscribe.
- The Outline — originally drawn from Hobbes' Leviathan
Collated texts
Archived (outdated) documents
- How to start up the Collation Project pilot — initial start-up, already done
- How to use the wiki for the Collation Project pilot — general introduction, now outdated
- Collation Project pilot launch plan — now outdated
- Some suggested rules — rough draft — superceded by how to collate a text
Alternative pilot projects and associated documents
WebKB — Structured Discussions
- Towards a semi-formal and sentence-based approach (instead of paragraph-based approach, see the 4 emails with subject "not fine-grained and structured enough"):
TipTop — Exploring a complementary Indexing Project
- Traditional texts have a linear outline in front and a nonlinear index in back. In general, indexes merge more easily between texts. This Alternative Project will explore the possibility of scaffolding TextOP with a "TextIP".
Digital Universe-related material
Background
Note: If you wish to contribute to this wiki, please create an account and log in using your own real name.
Please consult the Textop summary, the Collation Project summary, and the summaries of the other three projects for essential background. These are all available from the Textop home page.
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software. See also the MediaWiki FAQ.
About this wiki
This wiki's primary purpose is to serve as the venue for Textop-related pilot projects. We are also open to using this wiki to demonstrate alternative proposals for close variant projects. This wiki may also be used for some well-defined collaborative document-creation, but the final versions of the project's documents will live at textop.org. For discussion, as opposed to collaborative work on co-authored documents, please use the Textop mailing list.
