[Mageia-marketing] Wikipedia wars

Thu May 17 22:32:06 CEST 2012

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com>wrote:
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+> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Romain d'Alverny <rda at mageia.org> wrote:
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+>> Hi!
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+>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Patricia Fraser <trish at thefrasers.org>
+>> wrote:
+>> > I think it's unlikely that we'll get it undeleted, but we can try for a
+>> > new Mageia page; I'm on it.
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+>> >From the discussion and deletion decision, recreating it is completely
+>> open. Funny things is, it's been 3 votes for deletion, 2 against, so
+>> it's not like it's a big deal either, it's been only one person needed
+>> to make it go - and Mageia pages in other languages are not much
+>> different either.
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+>> But, for the new page, sources will be needed to sustain each stance,
+>> and - I'm not sure how this can be included, maybe as
+>> sources/references actually - hints to existing coverage (relevant,
+>> independant articles and reviews) will be needed.
+>>
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+> Yeah. I don't think we can quote our own site as a good source.
+> The 'about' Mageia on Distrowatch is pretty OK.
+> Here are a couple of articles I remember seeing, there are probably more.
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+> http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/02/eugeni-dodonov-even-while-i-was-at.html
+> http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2011/08/02/mageia-1/
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+A quick Google search also turned up these gems:
+http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spotlight-linux-mageia-1
+http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255498/six_key_features_coming_in_mageia_linux_20.html
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