Philippe,

> Wikipedia is (supposed to be) an encyclopedia, not a marketing tool.

Perhaps my enthusiasm for Squeak is misplaced, but my use of the word  
"encyclopedic" was supposed to denote that.  The article there  
already is more marketing than useful information, as pointed out by  
Lukas, or whoever did the second part of that tag on the article.

Excuse me if my assumption was incorrect- I had thought Squeakers,  
but especially Seasiders, would like to see Wikipedia host a useful,  
informational, and relevant page on Seaside that explains what it is,  
what it does, how it does it, features comparisons with other similar  
systems, etc. Such an article benefits us and does all the  
"evangelizing" we need.  I apologize if you, Lukas and/or others  
think I was advocating for a piece of fluff full of word tricks to  
deceive people into thinking that Seaside is more worthwhile and  
interesting than it is.  I simply thought that the Squeak and Seaside  
communities would benefit from a decent, re-written Seaside article.

Regards,
Aaron


On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:

> 2007/3/11, Aaron Reichow <revaaron at bitquabit.com>:
>> Hey-
>>
>> This should prolly go to the Seaside list, but I'm not on there, so
>> please excuse the spamming...
>>
>> I just came across the Seaside article on Wikipedia:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_%28software%29
>>
>> I was wondering if some Seasider could go spiff it up to avoid
>> deletion? I think Seaside is worthy of staying on Wikipedia, as per
>> the guidelines and similar entries for similar webapps, but agree
>> that the article could use some beefing up.  Maybe someone itching to
>> do a little encyclopedic evangelizing for Squeak and Seaside would be
>> up to the task?
>
> Wikipedia is (supposed to be) an encyclopedia, not a marketing tool.
>
> Philippe
>