[WikiEN-l] Notability for FLOSS - the public's reaction

[Carcharoth]

Hopefully someone will write a proper history of the FLOSS
(free/libre/open source software) movement someday. As someone who has
sometimes tried to find sources on early 20th century stuff where it
seems no-one wrote a history, I certainly hope the FLOSS history
doesn't end up the same way.

Carcharoth

PS. But (having had to find out something about swings) at least we have these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_boarding

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The [[dwm]] deletion discussion has caught the interest of some of the
> more nerdy online communities:
>
> - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b8s29/the_wikipedia_deletionists_are_at_it_again_this/
> - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163884
>
> It's interesting to see the general levels of disgust and how few
> current editors there are in comparison to former, and read the
> dislike of WP:N.
>
> I certainly hope the usability initiatives bear fruit and entice
> regular people into becoming editors, because we're burning our
> bridges among our original techy contributor base.
>
> ([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwm (2nd nomination)]] is trending
> keep, but many FLOSS articles have been deleted lately, and many will
> yet feel the axe.)
>
> --
> gwern
>
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