Re: [Geary] Wikipedia entry update needed

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I can have a look at it later today.

On 02.04.19 06:49, Michael Gratton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone interested in updating Geary's Wikipedia entry[0]? It's 
> pretty woefully out of date, has a screenshot from years ago, still 
> has the old logo, and still reads mostly like an entry for 
> Elementary's Mail app, from back in the days before they re-wrote 
> their fork from scratch.
> It would be good to make the entry talk more about Geary's benefits as 
> well as it's features, make it much less technical (nobody reading a 
> Wikipedia article about an email app cares about the programming 
> language it is written in or which libraries it uses), talk a bit more 
> about the app's history and principals (e.g. starting as a Yorba GTK+ 
> app, being moved over to GNOME's infrastructure, now aiming to be a 
> first-class GNOME 3 app), and so on. You know, make the entry useful 
> for normal people rather than a Linux nerds like me.
> I'd suggest using Geary's home page[1] as a starting point, but it 
> doesn't have to be identical, in fact it can go in to a lot more 
> detail, since the wiki page is not supposed to be an advertisement for 
> the app. I'd do this myself, but I understand it's not the done thing 
> to edit articles that one is quite subjective about. :)
> So, anyone like to volunteer?
>
> Cheers!
> //Mike
>
> [0] - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_(e-mail_client)>
> [1] - <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary>