I think the original proposer is suggesting that it has more to do with one of the many things we might be able to do to help to raise the perception of Perl in the wider world. WE all know what "Perl" is, but when someone does a specific search on the 'net, for instance relating to this Tiobe ranking, it's possible that having the wiki page entry, title/header/page/keywords, read "Perl (Programming Language)" might be more helpful.
This is what Tiobe says: The language should have an own entry on Wikipedia and it should clearly state that it concerns a programming language. This is the reason why (Ruby on) Rails, Excel, Android, Boost, Cocoa, ASP and AJAX are not considered programming languages for the index. ... The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is +"<language> programming" WE know Perl is a programming language, and yes, the important words are on the page, but they are NOT in the title, and they are NOT in the name of the page. These criteria are also used by Google for deciding how to rank search results by relevance. The knock-on effect of this omission could be inestimably high. Looking down our noses and saying "WE don't need to disambiguate because WE know what we mean", (capitals are mine), is all very well, and I for one understand that there is no NEED for us to disambiguate Perl the programming language. However, the question is probably better put as to whether we would like to explicitly associate "Perl" and "programming language" whenever Wikipedia and Google and Yahoo and Facebook and blablabla are searched, perhaps by stupid robots, or even by blissfully ignorant people. It's not about what we deem necessary to our usage of what is clearly the best programming language on the planet, it's about what we can do to raise Perl's profile "out there", right now, and for future generations. -- Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:19:33AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > Quoting Richard Foley <richard.fo...@rfi.net>: > > >We need people with voting facilities (accounts) on Wikipedia to vot up Perl. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Perl#Move_to_.22Perl_.28programming_language.29.22 > > The proposal here seems to be to rename the Wikipedia article "Perl" > to "Perl (Programming Language)". > > I don't agree with the proposal. If there's no need for > disambiguation then none should be used. > > Dave...