--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Would it not have been more useful if we had first
found that there is
ALREADY an existing wikipedia link to ilugd, made it
more useful in
terms of broader activities we do and then have a
specific mention of
freedel / freed. As it is now, there
On 8/18/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 18-Aug-07, at 8:32 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
[rest of rather weak justification for rant snipped]
my opinion is that wikipedia is not the place to advertise
forthcoming events.
Sorry for being late in this discussion:
Would it not
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 08:12, Anand Shankar wrote:
On 8/18/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 18-Aug-07, at 8:32 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
[rest of rather weak justification for rant snipped]
my opinion is that wikipedia is not the place to advertise
forthcoming events.
On 22-Aug-07, at 10:03 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
of freedel / freed. As it is now, there are three entries on
wikipedia one with ilugd, second one with freedel and the third on
freed.in.
I've made changes to all three pages with cross-references. Please
check if it looks OK now.
looks ok to
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
--
Freed.in http://freed.in
Freedome In Technology Software
Experience the freedom, excitement, and fun on September 28-29, 2007 at the
School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Honey Singh
On 8/17/07, Honey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
great idea !
the entry needs to talk about freed.in the overall event, and then the
sep2k7 instance of the event.
therefore, freed.in the event, should be represented by the
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:39 PM, Honey wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
omg - you cant do this - please remove it
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
On Friday 17 August 2007 14:54, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:39 PM, Honey wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
omg - you cant do this - please remove it
Of course he can, he already did! Is there an issue with letting
Wikipedia
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:05 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2007 14:54, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:39 PM, Honey wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
omg - you cant do this - please remove it
Of course he can, he already did!
On 8/17/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:05 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2007 14:54, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:39 PM, Honey wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
omg - you cant
On Friday 17 August 2007 15:11, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:05 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
Of course he can, he already did! Is there an issue with letting
Wikipedia users know about the existence of freed.in?
yes there is - please read guidelines for articles in wikipedia.
On 8/17/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:51 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
Freed page on wikipedia is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed
great idea !
wikipedia is not the place to advertise events - only jerks publicise
themselves there - please
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:24 PM, Saleem Ansari wrote:
Please try to understand what wikipedia is all about.
There should be no issues! at all ;-)
If there are then do remove these too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS.IN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Reilly_Open_Source_Convention
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:27 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
yes there is - please read guidelines for articles in wikipedia.
Please try to understand what wikipedia is all about.
I have read the guidelines. Can you be more specific about which
one(s)
the article is violating?
i have answered in the
On 8/17/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:27 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
yes there is - please read guidelines for articles in wikipedia.
Please try to understand what wikipedia is all about.
I have read the guidelines. Can you be more specific about which
The point is not to remove it,
((
omg - you cant do this - please remove it
))
but to improve it! right?
((
quote
This article does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable
sources. (help, get involved!)
Unverifiable material may be
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:36, Anupam Jain wrote:
[snip]
My sentiments exactly. Also, why isn't the entry Freed.in instead
of Freed? (Grabbing the most popular keywords huh, forget about
accuracy!) This is certainly not the way to promote Freed.in.
And the editing has been done shabbily,
On 8/17/07, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:36, Anupam Jain wrote:
[snip]
My sentiments exactly. Also, why isn't the entry Freed.in instead
of Freed? (Grabbing the most popular keywords huh, forget about
accuracy!) This is certainly not the way to
On Friday 17 August 2007 15:41, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Aug-07, at 3:24 PM, Saleem Ansari wrote:
Please try to understand what wikipedia is all about.
There should be no issues! at all ;-)
If there are then do remove these too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS.IN
On Friday 17 August 2007 18:49, Anupam Jain wrote:
[snip]
Agreed totally. I *could* have fixed it but I am not the one with
appropriate content on Freed.in.. I was just giving the person who
originally made the entry a chance to fix things. If that doesn't
happen, I'll fix it myself when I
do any of the other articles have these comments attached? Instead of
sounding off - try to understand that wikipedia insists that all
materials on wikipedia *must* be secondary information and not
primary information. Wikipedia strongly opposes original material.
And this blatant
Good LORD!
Gotta love discussions on issues which require about
15 minutes to fix, and perhaps double that typing out
philosophies on why not to.
Kenneth - your opinions on this matter, imho, are
rather baseless. Wikipedia does have issues against
original research, but NOT articles which cite
Oh, and did I mention the updated article now lives at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed.in, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed is a disambiguation
page, which points to the former, amongst other
things?
Right, I just did.
--- Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good LORD!
Gotta love
On 8/18/07, Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and did I mention the updated article now lives at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed.in, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freed is a disambiguation
page, which points to the former, amongst other
things?
Right, I just did.
Good Work
On 17-Aug-07, at 6:52 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
OK, since you appear to be most concerned about India's image, why
don't
you fix issues with the article (and thereby improve the global
perception of India and Indians)?
seems that someone has fixed it
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Aug-07, at 11:34 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
i agree with raj's comment below, to what kenneth says in the para
above.
look forward to kenneth making a positive contribution to wikipedia,
i have no material at hand to make any positive contribution to this
particular subject - but
On 18-Aug-07, at 1:32 AM, Viksit Gaur wrote:
Gotta love discussions on issues which require about
15 minutes to fix, and perhaps double that typing out
philosophies on why not to.
there are three ways to fix something broken in wikipedia:
1. fix it in wikipedia - given that you have the
On 18-Aug-07, at 8:32 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
[rest of rather weak justification for rant snipped]
my opinion is that wikipedia is not the place to advertise
forthcoming events.
I call it making information about the event available to a wider
audience; you call it advertising. In the
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