Re: [Geary] Wikipedia entry update needed
- From: Michael Gratton <mike vee net>
- To: step21 <step21 devtal de>
- Cc: Geary <geary-list gnome org>, William Gathoye <william gathoye be>
- Subject: Re: [Geary] Wikipedia entry update needed
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:59:48 +1100
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pretty woefully out of date, has a screenshot from years ago, still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pretty woefully out of date, has a screenshot from years ago, still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>
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