wikipedia

[Tom_Davies]

Hi
I found a page about Calc in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc
but it's heavily branded as the OpenOffice version. Writer has 2 pages. One
for OpenOffice and 1 for LibreOffice.

Would it be better to move towards having just 1 page for each application and
then link to OpenOffice, LibreOffice or NeoOffice when appropriate? Specific
pages such as the OpenOffice Calc page could then be extremely short and very
specific since most of the stuff would already be either in the main
cross-product page for Calc or in Apache's documentation?

I imagine each of the 2 lists will diverge in particular points but i don't
think everything needs to be repeated on both lists.
Regards from
Tom

[David_Nelson]

Hi Tom,

Hi
I found a page about Calc in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc
but it's heavily branded as the OpenOffice version.  Writer has 2 pages.  One
for OpenOffice and 1 for LibreOffice.

Would it be better to move towards having just 1 page for each application and
then link to OpenOffice, LibreOffice or NeoOffice when appropriate?  Specific
pages such as the OpenOffice Calc page could then be extremely short and very
specific since most of the stuff would already be either in  the main
cross-product page for Calc or in Apache's documentation?

I imagine each of the 2 lists will diverge in particular points but i don't
think everything needs to be repeated on both lists.
Regards from
Tom

My humble 2 cents would be that there should be an equivalent page to
this one that covers LibreOffice Calc alone. I know that people often
seem to refer to LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as kind-of twin
products, but I'm betting that this will be less and less the case as
time goes by and differences between them accumulate.

Would someone (maybe yourself?) feel like tackling that task on Wikipedia?

[planas]

David

Hi Tom,

> Hi
> I found a page about Calc in Wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc
> but it's heavily branded as the OpenOffice version. Writer has 2 pages. One
> for OpenOffice and 1 for LibreOffice.
>
> Would it be better to move towards having just 1 page for each application and
> then link to OpenOffice, LibreOffice or NeoOffice when appropriate? Specific
> pages such as the OpenOffice Calc page could then be extremely short and very
> specific since most of the stuff would already be either in the main
> cross-product page for Calc or in Apache's documentation?
>
> I imagine each of the 2 lists will diverge in particular points but i don't
> think everything needs to be repeated on both lists.
> Regards from
> Tom

My humble 2 cents would be that there should be an equivalent page to
this one that covers LibreOffice Calc alone. I know that people often
seem to refer to LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as kind-of twin
products, but I'm betting that this will be less and less the case as
time goes by and differences between them accumulate.

Would someone (maybe yourself?) feel like tackling that task on Wikipedia?

--
David Nelson

I have Wikipedia account and if can get something together this
week(end) I can get it posted this weekend.

[David_Nelson]

Hi Jay,

I have Wikipedia account and if can get something together this
week(end) I can get it posted this weekend.

That would be cool, thanks if so.

[Tom_Davies]

Hi
I think our main focus needs to be official documentation. I was just curious
about how people feel about the wikipedia thing. I think i am still fairly
stuck on the idea of a shared page but i agree with David's points. I think the
OpenOffice page about Calc goes into too much detail which inevitably gets
out-dated too easily. I think an equivalent page for LibreOffice should mainly
just point people to specific wiki pages within LibreOffice and to documentation
or even better just avoid most of that detail.

Regards from
Tom

[Rainer_Bielefeld]

Tom Davies schrieb:

[...] of a shared page but i agree with David's points. I think the
OpenOffice page about Calc goes into too much detail which inevitably gets
out-dated too easily.

Yes,

there is a tendency in English Wikipedia to have an article concerning every potato in the world, and such descriptions have to be very detailed by definition, and they are interesting for no one (I was a Wikipedia admin for a while, I know what we are speaking about).

There is no need to have separate articles for LibO Calc, Writer, if someone needs detailed information, he should follow a link to the LibO documentation).

But still information is missing what makes LibO unique, that should be added to the Wikipedia article.

CU

Rainer