[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Presence On Wikipedia

[Lester Caine]

Landon Blake wrote:
> We could set up a wiki page to coordinate Wikipedia entries we help to 
> maintain, and I could start by migrating some of the appropriate 
> definition entries from the dictionary to Wikipedia.
> 
> Any thoughts or comments? Is anyone else interested in this? (Is it a 
> good idea?)

You would think the idea is good, but Wikipedia has a major problem with 
arrogance :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages#Geographic_information_system 
is a starting point for references to software, but if the package is not 
'notable' it will be killed as will probably happen with 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapnik

And more critically
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary
PREVENTS using it as a repository of terms :(

So perhaps we need a Openpedia to store all the useful information.

( And I admit to being pissed off with wikipedia because they just culled an 
article I wrote on an open source CMS package, while several other 
'advertisements' remain - if you LIST open source projects then they should 
all be listed - mapnik and other packages should ALL be present ? )

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