I think the Wikipedia editing adventure did not have a good ending. That is to be expected.
I think that there is no point in attempting to edit Wikipedia in situations such as this. These things invariably end badly. On the other hand, there are level-headed folk out there, and you might find this heartening: <http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Apache-OpenOffice-Not-Dead-Yet>. There's a technical error, and I have provided correction in a comment. I have no interest in fact-checking any farther than that. It's an opinion peace and there's no reason to address that. What I did say, also by comment, was what I think matters. That is about our performance, and how we play nice with others, all in the spirit of producing software for the public good. I believe that what matters is how we conduct ourselves and deliver. That's it. Slow and steady as she goes. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Phillip Rhodes [mailto:motley.crue....@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 15:55 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Wrongful information on the Wikipedia Sorry, I missed the infobox when I looked at the page. You're right, having "Dormant" there is flat out wrong and very misleading. I changed it to "Active" just now and added a ref pointer to the 4.1.2 release schedule that Andrea just provided. I just hope there aren't certain parties with a vested interest in denigrating AOO sitting around planning to start a revert war over this. :-( Phil This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Max Merbald <max.merb...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > what I meant was the infobox at the top right. In that box it says that > AOO is dormat, which is not correct and which is not in the citations. The > presence of a citation does not necessry mean that the claimed info is in > the citation. If people read on the Wikipedia that AOO is "dormant" they'll > start looking for different office software. > > Max > > > > Am 03.09.2015 um 23:12 schrieb Phillip Rhodes: > >> I just looked at the Wikipedia page and don't see anything that's - >> strictly speaking - incorrect, or lacking citations. IOW, I don't see any >> supportable rationale for removing anything that's there, although one >> could question the motives of whoever made it a point to call out some >> concerns about lack of activity in the first paragaph of the article. >> Nonetheless, I think any attempt to modify that will face opposition. >> >> In a related vein, The Guardian recently ran this article titled "Should I >> Switch From Apache OpenOffice to LibreOffice or Microsoft Office". >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office >> >> I don't know if there's any easy way to counter this narrative that's >> spreading through the press, about AOO being dead/dormant/whatever, or how >> LO is clearly "the winner", but it's definitely unfortunate to see this >> kind of stuff spread around so widely. :-( >> >> >> Phil >> >> >> This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM >> >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Max, >>> >>> On 03 Sep 15, at 16:31, Max Merbald <max.merb...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> the Engish Wikipedia claims that AOO is dormant. I can't see where they >>>> >>> have the information from. The sources they use don't say so. I think >>> it's >>> definitely bad for OpenOffice when people think no more is done about it. >>> The problem is also that LibreOffice has just published its version 5.0 >>> and >>> is getting ahead of us. >>> >>> thanks for the alert. >>> >>> Wikipedia is composed by a crowd of editors, and you can change the entry >>> to reflect the facts. >>> >>> So can anyone on this list. Becoming an editor at Wikipedia is not >>> arduous. >>> >>> Louis >>> >>>> Max >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
