Re: Recent Wikipedia edits

Markus Slopianka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've changed it into "K Desktop Environment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the 
K Desktop Environment (now called KDE Software Compilation)" and also tried to get rid of 
"KDE" as description for the software, replacing it with "K Desktop Environment" -- 
hopefully that'll increase the awareness of KDE being an organization.

Am Samstag 18 September 2010, 22:03:14 schrieb Troy Unrau:
> Suggested:
> 
> "KDE 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the KDE Software
> Compilation" -> "KDE 1 was the inaugural series of releases now known
> as the KDE Software Compilation, then known as the K Desktop
> Environment"
> 
> Problem solved; there's no need to be revisionist when talking about
> the historical elements of KDE software, it just needs to be
> consistent. Additionally, I'd like to really get away from using "KDE
> Software Compiliation" everywhere - if wording is revisionist, perhaps
> the article should have been called "K Desktop Environment" (pre 4.0)
> and "KDE Software Compilation 4" (current stuff).
> 
> My head hurts. If I had more time, I'd go try to find the right
> wording myself, but I've got a report due elsewhere. Have fun folks.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On 18 September 2010 09:55, Markus Slopianka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I just noticed that someone did a pretty large restructuring of the
> > English Wikipedia articles surrounding KDE in the past few days.
> > We now have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation as well
> > as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation_4
> > 
> > While I find the idea to split the history of major releases off into a
> > separate article good, reading the sentence "KDE 1 was the inaugural
> > series of releases of the KDE Software Compilation" seems so wrong.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
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