On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Andre Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently found myself at the english Wikipedia page for "Twip" (a unit of > length). Nothing unexpected there except the following sentence: > > They are also used in Rich Text Format from Microsoft for platform- > independent exchange and they are the base length unit in > LibreOffice. > > While technically wrong (twip is *a* unit used in Writer but (almost) not in > the other applications) the exclusive mentioning of LibreOffice caught my > eye. The original use of the word OpenOffice.org was changed on June 1st > 2011 to LibreOffice. >
You can see other attempts to write OpenOffice out of history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kerning&diff=471493120&oldid=459579375 Good tools to find and investigate such issues: Search Google for: "LibreOffice site:wikipedia.org" and to find who made the change: http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php > I don't care much about this replacement on this very page. I have no plan > to simply change it back. I rather wonder how a good and fair solution > could look like for situations where you want to make a reference to the > family of OpenOffice suites, both the original and its forks. When > searching for the term OpenOffice in the english Wikipedia then I am > forwarded to OpenOffice.org. There, Apache OpenOffice are the first words in > the main text. > > Could/should there be some sort of a disambiguation page like "OpenOffice > family" that mentions the different members of the family? > Or even a section in the OpenOffice.org article that lists derivatives of that code base. > Andre
