>yes, I asked LoneRifle to remove the reference because I was preparing much
>better information (which has just been released yesterday) and
>didn't want people to read old incomplete info. So from now on you could use
>this information in our wikipedia article.
If that was the case, that makes sense. Removing the information from the
article outright, as opposed to simply waiting and updating the article
with more detailed information when it was available might have been a better
way of doing things so no red flags pop up, in my mind
or the mind of others. Alternately, you, LoneRifle, or whoever is the one most
in charge of maintaining the Wikipedia page should have at least
noted that the information was going to be replaced with updated information so
no other Wikipedia editors were left to assume that the information
was simply going to disappear. Probably the only reason I didn't revert the
changes immediately was because I wanted to ask the devs about it
first to see if there was a misunderstanding. My desire to see ReactOS succeed
was tempering my natural instinct to assume the worst about the
situation.
Betov already made accusations of ReactOS fans tampering with Wikipedia a while
back, and while I don't believe that his claims are true, a
random person reading Betov's accusations and then seeing that kind of a
statement in the article's revision history might be more apt to be
apprehensive about the project. Because of the bad rap ReactOS has gotten in
the past, we have to be more careful to avoid feeding into any
misinformation that has been spread about ReactOS. Hopefully you can see why I
was concerned. It's cool now, we'll just have to do things a bit
differently in the future.
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Since that's cleared up, now I can sit around and get excited about Arwinss
again. When should us testers expect to see a working Arwinss in the
trunk builds to test?
-Joshua Bailey
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