On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:38:38 AM -0400, Tim Deaton wrote: >> It's useless to waste time on Wikipedia. >> > It may be "useless" if your only market is techies.
"techies" know better than trust Wikipedia without checking the sources anyway. This said, I *never* referred to "techies" in my earlier posts, and I wasn't even talking only about OOo and/or ODF. I was always speaking in general, sorry if it wasn't clear. I should have written "Whatever the subject is, it's useless to waste time publishing it and trying to keep it clean on Wikipedia". In a sense, this post is almost offtopic here, because everything I said is general, it isn't limited to OOo/ODF: it's true for any "sensitive" topic, from religion to history to anything which (like ODF) directly impacts a multi-million Euro market. In all those cases, you'll always find somebody who knows less than you, but has more time to "fix" what you wrote or money to hire somebody who does it. In the long term, the only solution to this problem is never to link to any wikipedia page, thus decreasing the chances that they come up on top of searches even whey they haven't the best possible information on some topic. > But it IS ADVERTISING. it's still absolutely useless, as far as I'm concerned. Would you waste money on an advertising billboard that anybody can rewrite as they please the second you turn your head? I know that most people will only see that billboard, but I have a life. Unless somebody **pays** me to do just that full time, I won't spend one minute writing stuff that anybody could rewrite one minute later to match their agenda. I also think that, in this specific case: > OO's biggest market isn't techies. just because you're right, that's another reason to not waste efforts on Wikipedia. Because those people won't even go to Wikipedia. They look at advertising in printed magazines or TVs, or will just type OpenOffice in Google. In the latter case, they'll see as first result OpenOffice.org, so it's better to figure out what can be improved in that website. Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
