Re: PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread Jon Kleiser
It’s best if others can come up with the ideas for improvement. For the most of the summer I will be concentrating on some JavaScript/TypeScript project of mine, when not enjoying outdoors activity. Have a nice, safe summer! /Jon > On 29 Jun 2020, at 16:07, Alexander Burger wrote: > > On

Re: PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:08:53AM -0400, r cs wrote: > Sure Alex, I would be happy to do that. Great! Thanks a lot! :) It would be really nice if you, Jon, and perhaps others, could improve that page. It is very bad as it is currently. Any ideas are welcome! ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread Jon Kleiser
es every half year, I also fix every time the "latest > release > version" and "latest release date" in the PicoLisp page in Wikipedia > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp > > > However, since quite sime time, Wikipedia complains: > > A

Re: PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread r cs
latest release date" in the PicoLisp page in Wikipedia > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp > > > However, since quite sime time, Wikipedia complains: > >A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection > with >its subject. It

Re: PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, cool, thanks a lot! > I can edit that page, if you tell me when and what to write. I see that the > “Stable release 20.6” is now in the box on the right. Yes, indeed, so it is adjusted already: | latest release version = 20.6 | latest release date = {{Start date and

PicoLisp in Wikipedia

2020-06-29 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, today I released picoLisp-20.6. During those releases every half year, I also fix every time the "latest release version" and "latest release date" in the PicoLisp page in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp However, since quite sime time,

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-09 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On 2019-01-09 07:58, Mattias Sundblad wrote: > Hi, > >> "IA-32" is not explicitly supported. It would rather be "C" for pil32 >> and "emu" >> on pil64. But this is probably too confusing for a Wikipedia article ;) > > Yes, most li

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-08 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi, >"IA-32" is not explicitly supported. It would rather be "C" for pil32 >and "emu" >on pil64. But this is probably too confusing for a Wikipedia article ;) Yes, most likely :) >Other supported architectures (besides "x86-64") are "

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-07 Thread Alexander Burger
org/wiki/ARM_architecture#AArch64 ? "IA-32" is not explicitly supported. It would rather be "C" for pil32 and "emu" on pil64. But this is probably too confusing for a Wikipedia article ;) Other supported architectures (besides "x86-64") are "arm64" and "ppc64" I would say. - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-07 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 09:58:33AM +0100, Jon Kleiser wrote: > I have now added a PilBox paragraph under “History”, and two PilBox links > under "External links”. Maybe the first PilBox link should have been under > “References”, but I didn’t know how to do that. >

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread George Orais
Hi Alex, > Better not. I was hoping that Geo (George Orais) would comment, he is still > working on it. Thanks!! Actually I did comment on this last Jan 2. :) > Should we perhaps also mention that PicoLisp is available as a package > on Termux (terminal app on Android)? > > ... > >

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread Alexander Burger
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 09:57:30AM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: > You could also check https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pilbox As this is only a community-internal link, we should also link to the Google Play Store page https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_lab.pilbox ☺/ A!ex

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread andreas
Am 2019-01-03 10:14, schrieb Alexander Burger: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:55:35PM +0100, Jon Kleiser wrote: Is there a milestone or two we (eg. I) could add in the History section? Should we perhaps also mention that PicoLisp is available as a package on Termux (terminal app on Android)?

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread Alexander Burger
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:55:35PM +0100, Jon Kleiser wrote: > Is there a milestone or two we (eg. I) could add in the History section? Should we perhaps also mention that PicoLisp is available as a package on Termux (terminal app on Android)? -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > Could you give me a complete sentence/paragraph describing the PilBox thing, > including month and year, and maybe a link? Something like this? PilBox ("PicoLisp Box") - a generic Android App allowing to write Apps in pure PicoLisp You could also check

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-03 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Could you give me a complete sentence/paragraph describing the PilBox thing, including month and year, and maybe a link? Shall I delete the paragraph that mentions the PilMCU project? /Jon > On 3. Jan, 2019, at 07:59, Alexander Burger wrote: > > Hi Jon, > >> Happy New Year! > >

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-02 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > Happy New Year! Happy New Year, to you and all! o/ > I did add a link “Software Preservation Group – PicoLisp and Other Lisps” to > the “External links” sections, Very good idea! > but that didn’t make the warning go away (not unexpected). I'm not sure if we have the permission to

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-02 Thread Jon Kleiser
t; > On 28 Dec 2018, at 08:35, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > >> I think the issue with the Wikipedia message is that not much is said of >> Picolisp outside of the Picolisp community :) Hence, if we can have a few >> articles about *anything* related to Picolisp then we c

Re: Wikipedia

2019-01-01 Thread George Orais
). Give me the text and I shall put it in. /Jon Sent from my iPhone On 28 Dec 2018, at 08:35, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: I think the issue with the Wikipedia message is that not much is said of Picolisp outside of the Picolisp community :) Hence, if we can have a few articles about

Re: Wikipedia

2018-12-28 Thread Jon Kleiser
the issue with the Wikipedia message is that not much is said of > Picolisp outside of the Picolisp community :) Hence, if we can have a few > articles about *anything* related to Picolisp then we can add a lot of > "neutral" contents and that doesn't have to be you who does the st

Re: Wikipedia

2018-12-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
I think the issue with the Wikipedia message is that not much is said of Picolisp outside of the Picolisp community :) Hence, if we can have a few articles about *anything* related to Picolisp then we can add a lot of "neutral" contents and that doesn't have to be you who does the

Re: Wikipedia

2018-12-27 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jean-Christophe, > Do you have a list of commercial applications that were developed in picolisp > and can be mentioned there? I could put together a list of all my projects during the last 30 years, but it would not be helpful as these are all custom applications, not visible in public. >

Re: Wikipedia

2018-12-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
a (late) Merry Christmas! > > > Today I released PicoLisp 18.12, and when updating the Wikipedia page > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp > > I got this note on top of the page: > > A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection wi

Re: Wikipedia

2018-12-27 Thread r cs
Thank you! On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 1:20 PM Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi all, > > first of all, a (late) Merry Christmas! > > > Today I released PicoLisp 18.12, and when updating the Wikipedia page > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp > > I go

Wikipedia

2018-12-27 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, first of all, a (late) Merry Christmas! Today I released PicoLisp 18.12, and when updating the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp I got this note on top of the page: A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject

Re: Citations for Wikipedia

2013-06-30 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: Hi Alex, recently the Wikipedia PicoLisp article was marked as lacking full citations and/or inline citations. I must say that I don't understand it. Reading the Wikipedia guidelines doesn't enlight me at all. What exactly needs to be done? Does

Re: Citations for Wikipedia

2013-06-30 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi, I ran the article through Wikipedia's reflinks tool ( https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py?page=Picolispciteweb=onoverwrite=simplelimit=200), which made a slight change to a url embedded in the page. I am not very involved with wikipedia either, but I can try and read up

Re: Citations for Wikipedia

2013-06-30 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hello, I made some further edits to the wikipedia page, hope things look good. best wishes, Mattias On 30 June 2013 16:42, Mattias Sundblad mattias@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ran the article through Wikipedia's reflinks tool ( https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py?page

Re: Citations for Wikipedia

2013-06-30 Thread Alexander Burger
involved with wikipedia either, but I can try and read up on what else needs to be done. Nice! I begin to understand what's meant, and I can see meaningful 'diff's in the WP page's history. Makes sense indeed! Again, many thanks! ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-11 Thread John Duncan
. I'm sure it happens more frequently in other areas that don't have pedants running the show, but I think it is important for people to write the article like an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia can be annoying in this way because there are some editors who are full of themselves

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-11 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Have you tried discussing the issue nicely on the talk (Diskussion) page? There hasn't been any talk in German, which is very strange for an article that has been marked for deletion. Well, there is one

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-10 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Henrik, So in the spirit of promoting the language I made the reply into its own post on my blog: http://www.prodevtips.com/2010/01/09/on-picolisps-wikipedia-woes-and-the-process-of-promoting-a-language/ Thanks Henrik! When it comes to secondary sources and references and such I propose

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-09 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Sorry it took so long for me to reply in this thread, I've been extremely busy. So in the spirit of promoting the language I made the reply into its own post on my blog: http://www.prodevtips.com/2010/01/09/on-picolisps-wikipedia-woes-and-the-process-of-promoting-a-language/ Sometimes the lisp

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-05 Thread Alexander Burger
Many thanks to all of you! I'm all right again. Your comments and opinions helped me a lot. And: Perhaps even the situation at the German site improved. At least there seems to be some trend in the discussions in favor of the article. Maybe it helped that Dexen pointed out the `reliable

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-05 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:21:36PM +0100, Henrik Sarvell wrote: My series starts here: http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/03/28/pico-lisp/ To be sure, I included them on the download page for a first step. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-04 Thread Jon Kleiser
just wish it wasn't Picolisp, lowercase l.) Let's try to make that article stick! If we succeed, I'll make another try at donating some money to Wikipedia. Keep up the good work! ;-) /Jon On 1/4/10 2:01 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:05:06PM +0100, dexen deVries wrote

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-04 Thread TC
I'm not donating a fucken cent to wikipedia after this. On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Robert Wörle wrote: Cheers All Here are my 5 cents to this. First about the spelling: The release version is named picoLisp. So i consider this the correct spelling coming from Alex directly. picolisp.org also uses

Wikipedia

2010-01-02 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi friends, a happy New Year! Now it looks I need some help or advice. I'm having trouble with Wikipedia. I wrote an article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp) around the 12th of November last year. Everything seemed all right, someone did minor changes, added links etc

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-02 Thread Henrik Sarvell
might lack, the code examples work like expected at least but the explaining texts might be wrong. /Henrik On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de wrote: Hi friends, a happy New Year! Now it looks I need some help or advice. I'm having trouble with Wikipedia

Re: Wikipedia

2010-01-02 Thread dexen deVries
Hello, On Saturday 02 of January 2010 21:21:36 you wrote: Well if you consider my series a reliable secondary source I would be honored but I don't feel like they are. I am afraid the `deletionists' on Wikipedia won't be pleased by a few blog= =20 posts :( Their point is, Wikipedia ought