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 <gwe...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l