31 Dec
2007
31 Dec
'07
4:32 p.m.
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
Guillaume, don't you think that your message could
entirely go to the
XWiki entry in Wikipedia? Or, perhaps better, it could be advisable to
substitute the whole content of that article with a brief summary and
a
link to a page in the new XWiki site. I must recognize
that I have not
a
clear idea about that is the role of an iniciative
like Wikipedia when
hosting information about another wiki. Wikipedia is a wiki, XWiki is
a
wiki, it makes more sense to use XWiki wiki to write
down XWiki's
history!
Unfortunately, while interesting, the bulk of the information in
Guillaume's post would be considered Original Research
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OR), which is not welcome to Wikipedia.
Content on WP is ideally from secondary sources. So if this information
exists in good independent sources, it can be sited and used, but you
can't say things like "according to a Google search". The WP page for
XWiki appropriately describes it as an Application Wiki. If an
independent source can be found that says XWiki coined the term "second
generation wiki", then it would be appropriate, and probably a good idea
to mention it there.
If xwiki.org has a page defining the term "second generation wiki", it
might be nice to add this information there. Or maybe have a history
article on xwiki.org.
-Paul D. Grodt