[WikiEN-l] [[Ecma Office Open XML]] and [[OpenDocument]] - good editors needed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecma_Office_Open_XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ecma_Office_Open_XML

I've spent this evening working on press stuff relating to this. The article is now at a much better (IMO) title. (I compare it to [[JavaScript]] being the article about the Netscape/Mozilla version of the language, but [[ECMAScript]] being the article about the standardised version.)

Now it needs clueful editors who both know the subject area and understand NPOV to keep it in order. We need to recover it from advocates and anti-advocates and make it something informative for the readers. You know how it is.

Mathias Schindler and I have been doing press about this, and also talking to the Microsoft OOXML guys. Doug Mahugh from MS is on the talk page, and does understand that editing the article himself would be a conflict of interest and the talk page is the right place to edit from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument also needs a similar degree of attention.

With the amount of press attention this is getting, I expect both articles to be features in a month ;-)

- d.