On Wed, 19 May 2004 10:43:44 +0000, Eric B. Rakim eric_b_and_rakim@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear mailing list readers,
I don't know if this is the proper place to turn for help. If it isn't, then please tell me because the matter is urgent. Wikipedia is a fine resource and contains very much useful information. Reading Wikipedia is fun, and every day since I discovered it I've learnt a thing or two by reading it. But its coverage about programming and computer software is a little thin I think. Well, I'm quite knowledgeable when it comes to computer related topics and I love to write. So, therefore I took it upon me to fix this defiancy.
Big mistake it seems, some people didn't like that at all.
Especially not a user by the name RickK, who a few minutes after I had written an initial version of "XFree86 logfile" added it to a page "Votes for Deletion" on which he is currently holding a vote whether that page should be destroyed or not. Naturally, I protested strongly, because I couldn't and still cannot understand why he wants to delete that page. He didn't try to communicate with me and just wrote "Huh?" and then when I asked him why he thought that that page should be deleted he answered "It isn't discussing anything encyclopedic. I THINK it describes a file format, but I'm not really sure."
From that it became obvious to me that he hadn't even read
the article because it should be pretty damn obvious to anyone that an article titled "XFree86 logfile" is about the XFree86 logfile. And that I told him that, whereafter he listed all other six articles I had written:
glDrawElements, glVertexPointer, glDrawArrays, glEnable, GL_QUADS, fbdevhw
And wrote: "I'll ask again. Do we really want articles on subroutines?" Which is really funny since only the four first documents subroutines.
May I suggest that some of this sort of information might be better located on the Belios OpenFacts Wiki, which is a "free knowledge database about open source software", to quote its front page. You can find it at:
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Main_Page