Re: Keeping external resources updated

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 24 August 2015 at 18:48, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:45 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 17:18 +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > > 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GNOME_Project - is out of date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_Con
> > > ference
> > > is… well, dull and outdated
> >
> > Remember that it's best for people external to the core GNOME project
> > to update those (to avoid astro-turfing accusations), and make sure to
> > include external references when making updates (not only links to
> > gnome.org websites).
>
> Yes, that's what I remember.. that we ourselves can't update it, but
> external contributors.  That's why I was suggesting Sumana or someone else
> so we don't get accused of putting our own agenda in the Wikipedia entry.

Going by that logic, if we ask anyone to update it, they're in the
same situation that we are in. Having said that, afaik, it's not a
problem for updates to be made as long as they are factually correct
(for example, next GUADEC location, current board list and so on). The
issue only arises if adding new information or removing existing parts
of the text as that can be interpreted as trying to make the article
read in a certain light.

> sri
>
> > Cheers
> >
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