Re: wikipedia: IBM_i article needs new content added automatically

Wikipedia politics support the organization of an interest group of
Wikipedia volunteers who decide to focus on a particular area.

They state the goals, invite people to sign-up, identify the articles that
need work, what the problems are with those articles, which need to be
combined, split, reach a consensus, then work on the projdect.

Perhaps there should be an article on the history of IBM renaming.
Perhaps there are articles on the history of computing that have short-
changed contributions made in some areas of computing.

This includes monitoring the targeted articles, so that if some other
volunteer edits at cross purposes, the project group deals with that person
in accordance with Wiki rules & Wiki politics.

There are both the spammers, who like to embed obscenities, and microscopic
links to porn sites, and those ipeople who have an editorial difference of
opinion, and don't work it out through the talk page or the Wiki politics.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:06:36 -0500, Mike wrote

No, Wikipedia editors like to remove things. I have heard many times
that someone adds a ligament article or entry and it gets removed
for one reason or another. Running our own wiki, we can control
information better and don't have to deal with the Wikipedia politics.

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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jde iSeries wrote:

wikipedia: IBM_i article needs new content added automatically

Too tedious to edit this manually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i

What content would you like to see added? Our own Wiki entry isn't much
more detailed... http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/OS/400

Bordering off-topic, a decent editor would help you edit a Wiki page
immensely. There are even Greasemonkey scripts and an Eclipse plug-in.

Slightly more on-topic, we already have a Midrange Wiki at
http://wiki.midrange.com. Should we abandon that and devote our updates
to the big Wikipedia?
--buck
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