[libreplanet-discuss] Fwd: New article for "libre" on Wikipedia is now live!

[Danny Piccirillo]

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From: "Chris Sakkas" <sanglorian@gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2012 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Last chance to look over Libre Wikipedia entry before I publish
To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular" <discuss@freeculture.org>

Phew, the Libre page is now live! Thanks for all your help, folks.

Matt: Thanks for your grammatical fixes and your suggestion to sort out the footnotes. I moved some non-citation material out of the footnotes and into the body.

Pharos: Thanks for the tip! I knew of the Gratis versus Libre page, but I used the Alternative Terms for Free Software page to add some extra content at the last minute.

Hopefully it'll stick around, grow and be a useful contribution to Wikipedia :)

Chris

Chris Sakkas
Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.

On 24 May 2012 01:04, Matthew Senate <mattsenate@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Richard!

Yes, indeed, you may want to check out the discussion pages on those articles and see if this topic has come up before about creating a new page outright for "Libre".

You could further help your case by seeing if there is any content that would not fit appropriately on these two articles (or any other for that matter) but would make sense to be posted on a "Libre" article.

If you find this to be the case, I'd even recommend adding an explanation and links to the "Discussion" page.

// Matt

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:

You also might want to keep these articles in mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software

Thanks,
Richard

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great work so far, I added some grammatical and clarification changes to the
> first paragraph, would love to continue the conversation on-wiki. Two
> meta-level thoughts:
>
> 1. Be bold! Posting content on Wikipedia and getting feedback from other
> wikipedians will help the article grow and provide opportunities to improve.
> Although it's hard to say what other folks might think or whether this issue
> has come up previously, I have a good feeling that the term "Libre" is
> notable enough to form an article as it both encapsulates a recognized gap
> in the English lexicon and has particular significance to particularly
> notable social movements (e.g. free/libre software/culture).
>
> 2. While the footnotes are great, it would be valuable to reserve <ref>'s
> for citations to reliable material. If we can find some more secondary
> resources, I think it will help this article stand up on its own legs and
> encourage the addition of further content and references down the line.
>
> Good work, keep up the editing!
>
> // Matt
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Chris Sakkas <sanglorian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> A couple of months ago I was drafting a Wikipedia page for 'libre', and I
>> finally returned to incorporate the remaining feedback I'd received. I'll
>> publish it in the next couple of days, but I thought I should give you a
>> chance to look over it before I do so:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanglorian/sandbox
>>
>> Feel free to make any edits you like to the article itself, or leave a
>> comment on the talk page and I'll incorporate it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Chris Sakkas
>> Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki and the Living Libre blog and Twitter feed.
>>
>>
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