On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Peter Gervai <grin...@gmail.com> wrote: .. > Wouldn't be nice. First, it's an attitude thing: we want (and have to) > promote open stuff. > Second, it isn't nice to show something to the users they cannot use > themselves. It's kind of against or basic principle of "you can do > what we do, you're free to do it, we just do it better" :-) >
It will be a good idea to pass the memo to the guys that design the notability rules. http://ioquake3.org/2009/02/20/ioquake3-entry-deleted-from-wikipedia/ Since most (all?) opensource proyects are webonly, and don't get in the press, are on some "obscure" area of the web where something can be wildly popular for these in-the-know, and invisible for these that edit and delete articles. I mean, I can write a bot to nominate *all* opensource projects articles on wikipedia for speedy deletion, and few ones (maybe 6) will survive that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ioquake3 <<<<<< Keep no matter how loud people and guidlines scream for reliable sources, many, many people use it and work on it and that makes it notable. If the press is not able to reliably represent this reality it's not a fault of the project and reality is a higher standard than reliable press. What do you need press for an Open Source project? Just looking at the SVN log proves more than any article could ever do. -- ioquake3 maintainer for the FreeBSD project >>>>>> -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
