Re: [Geary] Wikipedia entry update needed

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 06:51, step21 <step21 devtal de> wrote:
> I can have a look at it later today.

Thanks heaps!

I'm also CC'ing William Gathoye since he was also updating it a while 
back and may be interested in helping out as well.

//Mike


> 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 pretty woefully out of date, has a screenshot from years ago, still 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>


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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 06:51, step21 <step21 devtal de> wrote:
> 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 pretty woefully out of date, has a screenshot from years ago, still 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>