Chris Sakkas <[email protected]> writes: >Phew, the Libre page is now live! Thanks for all your help, folks. > >Matt: Thanks for your grammatical fixes and your suggestion to sort >out the footnotes. I moved some non-citation material out of the >footnotes and into the body. > >Pharos: Thanks for the tip! I knew of the Gratis versus Libre page, >but I used the Alternative Terms for Free Software page to add some >extra content at the last minute. > >Hopefully it'll stick around, grow and be a useful contribution to >Wikipedia :)
Really nice job, Chris. I'm looking forward to finally having a canonical place to point for this increasingly important word! -K >Chris > >Chris Sakkas >Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter >feed. > > > >On 24 May 2012 01:04, Matthew Senate <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Richard! > > Yes, indeed, you may want to check out the discussion pages on > those articles and see if this topic has come up before about > creating a new page outright for "Libre". > > You could further help your case by seeing if there is any content > that would not fit appropriately on these two articles (or any > other for that matter) but would make sense to be posted on a > "Libre" article. > > If you find this to be the case, I'd even recommend adding an > explanation and links to the "Discussion" page. > > // Matt > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Pharos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > You also might want to keep these articles in mind: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software > > Thanks, > Richard > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Senate > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great work so far, I added some grammatical and > clarification changes to the > > first paragraph, would love to continue the conversation > on-wiki. Two > > meta-level thoughts: > > > > 1. Be bold! Posting content on Wikipedia and getting > feedback from other > > wikipedians will help the article grow and provide > opportunities to improve. > > Although it's hard to say what other folks might think or > whether this issue > > has come up previously, I have a good feeling that the term > "Libre" is > > notable enough to form an article as it both encapsulates a > recognized gap > > in the English lexicon and has particular significance to > particularly > > notable social movements (e.g. free/libre software/culture). > > > > 2. While the footnotes are great, it would be valuable to > reserve <ref>'s > > for citations to reliable material. If we can find some more > secondary > > resources, I think it will help this article stand up on its > own legs and > > encourage the addition of further content and references > down the line. > > > > Good work, keep up the editing! > > > > // Matt > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Chris Sakkas > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> A couple of months ago I was drafting a Wikipedia page for > 'libre', and I > >> finally returned to incorporate the remaining feedback I'd > received. I'll > >> publish it in the next couple of days, but I thought I > should give you a > >> chance to look over it before I do so: > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanglorian/sandbox > >> > >> Feel free to make any edits you like to the article itself, > or leave a > >> comment on the talk page and I'll incorporate it. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> Chris Sakkas > >> Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and > Twitter feed. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
