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[osol-discuss] Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris
projects (fwd)
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Mar 17, 2007 11:04 PM
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Re: [osol-discuss] Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris
projects (fwd)
Posted:
Mar 17, 2007 11:04 PM
in response to: Guest
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I dunno, sounds an awful like link spamming, which is damned annoying
when they do it to the genunix wiki. Don't go overboard adding links
where they're not really relevant - wikipedia isn't intended to be a
web directory after all.
-alan-
Eric Boutilier wrote:
> Cross-posting to opensolaris-discuss from opensolaris-mktg. Please use
> opensolaris-mktg for any followups however. --Eric
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat Mar 17 07:11:24 2007
> Subject: [osol-mktg] Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris projects
> From: Eric Boutilier <Eric dot Boutilier at Sun dot COM>
>
> A while back I was reading a Wikipedia entry and decided to try making a
> change. The entry I was reading was for QEMU, and what I did (as you could
> probably guess) was simply add a reference to the QEMU OpenSolaris project
> page. It's really easy. You can even do it without logging in or
> registering. Since then, I've also done ones for Xfce and GCCfss. Not that
> I have a huge affinity for QEMU, Xfce, or GCC, but because I happened to be
> reading the Wikipedia pages for them and figured, what the heck, I've got a
> few minutes.
>
> So in case anyone is interested, I'm thinking there are tons of topics on
> Wikipedia lacking a reference to their corresponding OpenSolaris page.
> Basically all you do is click `Edit', add the link to the "External Links"
> bullet list, and save your change.
>
> Here's a step-by-step:
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> 1. Go to the pages you're interested in, scroll down to the `External
> Links' sub-header and click the `Edit' link directly to the right.
>
> 2. You'll see an edit window containing a simple bullet list. This text
> will be at the top:
> == External links ==
>
> 3. Go to the bottom of the list and insert your item (using Wikipedia
> syntax
> of course):
> * [<URL> <Link Text>]
>
> For example:
> * [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/xfce Xfce on OpenSolaris
> community project]
>
> 4. Review your edit by clicking the `Show Preview' button; then Click
> `Save Page'
>
> 5. You'll see an image showing distorted text (spam prevention). Type the
> word shown and click `Save Page' again.
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> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris dot org
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan dot coopersmith at sun dot com
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Re: Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris projects (fwd)
Posted:
Mar 18, 2007 12:16 AM
in response to: alanc
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I dunno, sounds an awful like link spamming,...
How is it spamming?
> which is damned annoying
> when they do it to the genunix wiki. Don't go overboard adding links
> where they're not really relevant - wikipedia isn't intended to be a
> web directory after all.
Look at the External Links section at the bottom of each entry. How would
this be going overboard? And it's not like the Wikipedians couldn't have
undone the edits I made to Xfce, QEMU, and GCC if they thought they were
inappropriate. They're really quick to do that.
Eric
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> -alan-
>
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> Cross-posting to opensolaris-discuss from opensolaris-mktg. Please use
>> opensolaris-mktg for any followups however. --Eric
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Sat Mar 17 07:11:24 2007
>> Subject: [osol-mktg] Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris projects
>> From: Eric Boutilier <Eric dot Boutilier at Sun dot COM>
>>
>> A while back I was reading a Wikipedia entry and decided to try making a
>> change. The entry I was reading was for QEMU, and what I did (as you could
>> probably guess) was simply add a reference to the QEMU OpenSolaris project
>> page. It's really easy. You can even do it without logging in or
>> registering. Since then, I've also done ones for Xfce and GCCfss. Not that
>> I have a huge affinity for QEMU, Xfce, or GCC, but because I happened to be
>> reading the Wikipedia pages for them and figured, what the heck, I've got a
>> few minutes.
>>
>> So in case anyone is interested, I'm thinking there are tons of topics on
>> Wikipedia lacking a reference to their corresponding OpenSolaris page.
>> Basically all you do is click `Edit', add the link to the "External Links"
>> bullet list, and save your change.
>>
>> Here's a step-by-step:
>>
>> 1. Go to the pages you're interested in, scroll down to the `External
>> Links' sub-header and click the `Edit' link directly to the right.
>>
>> 2. You'll see an edit window containing a simple bullet list. This text
>> will be at the top:
>> == External links ==
>>
>> 3. Go to the bottom of the list and insert your item (using Wikipedia
>> syntax
>> of course):
>> * [<URL> <Link Text>]
>>
>> For example:
>> * [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/xfce Xfce on OpenSolaris community
>> project]
>>
>> 4. Review your edit by clicking the `Show Preview' button; then Click `Save
>> Page'
>>
>> 5. You'll see an image showing distorted text (spam prevention). Type the
>> word shown and click `Save Page' again.
>> _______________________________________________
>> opensolaris-discuss mailing list
>> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris dot org
>
>
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan dot coopersmith at sun dot com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
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