On Dec 31, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Paul Grodt wrote: > > Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: >> Guillaume, don't you think that your message could entirely go to the >> XWiki entry in Wikipedia? Or, perhaps better, it could be advisable >> to >> substitute the whole content of that article with a brief summary and > a >> link to a page in the new XWiki site. I must recognize that I have >> not > a >> clear idea about that is the role of an iniciative like Wikipedia >> when >> hosting information about another wiki. Wikipedia is a wiki, XWiki is > a >> wiki, it makes more sense to use XWiki wiki to write down XWiki's > history! > > Unfortunately, while interesting, the bulk of the information in > Guillaume's post would be considered Original Research > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OR), which is not welcome to > Wikipedia. > Content on WP is ideally from secondary sources. So if this > information > exists in good independent sources, it can be sited and used, but you > can't say things like "according to a Google search". The WP page for > XWiki appropriately describes it as an Application Wiki. If an > independent source can be found that says XWiki coined the term > "second > generation wiki", then it would be appropriate, and probably a good > idea > to mention it there. > > If xwiki.org has a page defining the term "second generation wiki", it > might be nice to add this information there. Or maybe have a history > article on xwiki.org.
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