One solution is to write small but hopeful press releases of progress on the blog or otherwhere and have someone else update wikipedia.
Wolf Halton Atlanta Cloud Technology Broadening Your Vision to Broaden Your Reach 678-687-6104 -- Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc. > On Sep 3, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just looked at the Wikipedia page and don't see anything that's - > strictly speaking - incorrect, or lacking citations. IOW, I don't see any > supportable rationale for removing anything that's there, although one > could question the motives of whoever made it a point to call out some > concerns about lack of activity in the first paragaph of the article. > Nonetheless, I think any attempt to modify that will face opposition. > > In a related vein, The Guardian recently ran this article titled "Should I > Switch From Apache OpenOffice to LibreOffice or Microsoft Office". > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office > > I don't know if there's any easy way to counter this narrative that's > spreading through the press, about AOO being dead/dormant/whatever, or how > LO is clearly "the winner", but it's definitely unfortunate to see this > kind of stuff spread around so widely. :-( > > > Phil > > > This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM > >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Max, >> >>> On 03 Sep 15, at 16:31, Max Merbald <max.merb...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> the Engish Wikipedia claims that AOO is dormant. I can't see where they >> have the information from. The sources they use don't say so. I think it's >> definitely bad for OpenOffice when people think no more is done about it. >> The problem is also that LibreOffice has just published its version 5.0 and >> is getting ahead of us. >> >> thanks for the alert. >> >> Wikipedia is composed by a crowd of editors, and you can change the entry >> to reflect the facts. >> >> So can anyone on this list. Becoming an editor at Wikipedia is not arduous. >> >> Louis >>> >>> Max >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
