> In a sense, this post is almost offtopic here, because everything I Yea, this has wondered pretty far from home. I'm signing off of this thread now. :)
> said is general, it isn't limited to OOo/ODF: it's true for any > "sensitive" topic, from religion to history to anything which (like > ODF) directly impacts a multi-million Euro market. In all those cases, > you'll always find somebody who knows less than you, but has more time > to "fix" what you wrote or money to hire somebody who does it. Ditto, anyone reasonable well versed in any topic will realize this about Wikipedia fairly quickly. Your mention of religion and history is spot on - many of there articles on such things border on propaganda [usually anti, as Wikipedia people tend to be anti-everything]. > In the long term, the only solution to this problem is never to link > to any wikipedia page, thus decreasing the chances that they come up > on top of searches even whey they haven't the best possible > information on some topic. Yep. > > But it IS ADVERTISING. > it's still absolutely useless, as far as I'm concerned. Would you > waste money on an advertising billboard that anybody can rewrite as > they please the second you turn your head? I know that most people > will only see that billboard, but I have a life. Unless somebody > **pays** me to do just that full time, I won't spend one minute > writing stuff that anybody could rewrite one minute later to match > their agenda. Ditto. > I also think that, in this specific case: > > OO's biggest market isn't techies. > just because you're right, that's another reason to not waste efforts > on Wikipedia. Because those people won't even go to Wikipedia. They > look at advertising in printed magazines or TVs, or will just type > OpenOffice in Google. In the latter case, they'll see as first result > OpenOffice.org, so it's better to figure out what can be improved in > that website. Yep. The 'masses' are never going to bother looking up and reading about a software package, let alone a file format. The only real offenders here are "journalists" (the tech coverage, even in IT journals, is really really bad IMO). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
