greenrd: > Is anyone else interested in forming a Haskell WikiProject on Wikipedia, > to collaborate on improving and maintaining the coverage and quality of > articles on Haskell-related software and topics (broadly defined)? Not > just programming topics specific to Haskell, but also ones of interest > to the Haskell community. > > Some of you might already be doing this from time to time, but forming > an explicit WikiProject might help to: > > * Highlight things that could use some attention > * Divide up tasks (based on expertise or interest) > * Recruit more editors (sticking a banner on article Talk pages can let > editors know the WikiProject exists) > * Eventually (something for the future, maybe!) work together on a > Wikipedia Haskell Portal > * And of course, improve the visibility of Haskell on Wikipedia, which > should help our community > > Here's a good example to start with. The article on Eager evaluation > could do with some improvement - and possibly should be merged into the > Lazy evaluation article, I'm not sure: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation > > We could also probably create some more articles on projects written > in Haskell, and add more references to Haskell research papers. > Software projects don't have to be polished to be covered in Wikipedia - > or even working! - they essentially just have to be "notable", as the > Wikipedia guidelines define it. > > By the way (getting a bit offtopic here) an annoying limitation of the > Wikipedia category system, that you couldn't run queries like "Give me > all the articles in the Haskell category that are also in the > Unreferenced category" has now been partially addressed by the > experimental prototype of Category Intersection: > > http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/intersection/ > > This is slightly better than Googling, because crucially, it searches > *recursively* through categories. That means it will turn up articles > that are in a subcategory of "Category:Haskell programming language" but > don't explicitly mention Haskell. Don't know if there any such articles > yet, but it's worth bearing in mind that you can do this. I think it > will, in principle, make topic-specific maintenance a bit more > convenient - and it's what I've been waiting for before getting > involved in topic-specific maintenance. > > If you want to just express interest in signing up for such a > WikiProject (no commitment required whatsoever!), please reply > privately via email or publicly on my User Talk page (User talk:Greenrd) > - to avoid clogging up this mailing list.
Yes! Also, we have many good writers who've written extensively on topics on blogs who I'm sure would be happy to donate content. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe