Re: Keeping external resources updated

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 23 August 2015 at 15:44, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> Thanks for bringing this up Kat. I was suggested by Sri that Sumana
> was possibly going to be our contact for helping us out managing our
> external resources at Wikipedia. Unfortunately I tried to reach her
> out about this back in April with no responses so far.
>
> The various wiki pages you mentioned are definitely out of date (they
> don't even mention the Groupon trademark dispute at all) and so is the
> italian page at [1]. Is there anything we can do on this side? do we
> have any other contact at Wikipedia other than Sumana?

The magic of Wikipedia is that it can be edited by anyone so I don't
think that we need a contact from Wikimedia to help us on this! :) So
I would say that on this side, the pages can be updated and kept
up-to-date regularly.

> [1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation
>
> 2015-08-20 17:18 GMT+02:00 Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > there are a number of external resources about GNOME which are used by
> > people for information. I am specifically thinking about the pages on
> > Wikipedia here, but I'm sure that there is other stuff as well. It
> > would look more professional if GNOME's public-facing resources are at
> > least correct.
> >
> > Is the engagement team willing to maintain at least the most prominent
> > of these resources? Would it help to have a list of them with
> > frequencies on how often they should be checked?
> >
> > For example:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation - had an old list of
> > board members (fixed now) and doesn't have up-to-date information
> > about the Foundation
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GNOME_Project - is out of date
> > (apparently next GUADEC is in A Coruña)
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Users_And_Developers_European_Conference
> > is… well, dull and outdated
> > _______________________________________________
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>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
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>
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