I doubt it will have any impact at all; but as it does appear
discriminatory to me, I have posted a brief rant:
http://jasonwryan.com/post/409379904/wikipedia
Thayer Williams wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Jason Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
It points to a deficiency in the way Wikipedia views notability: it is quite
at odds with the notion of influence and derivation that powers free and
open source software...
Agreed. I said as much too. Under the current Wikipedia guidelines,
the vast majority of FOSS (and some proprietary) articles should be
deleted. It's unfortunate and more than little ironic that a
community-based 'open' encyclopedia would undermine the exposure of
other community-oriented projects.
