[Mageia-marketing] Wikipedia wars

Fri May 18 15:37:12 CEST 2012

Hello everybody,
+
+As the suggestion of Patricia and Marja, I subscribed to this list. 
+
+I'm here to know how I can help on this subject, and specifically to discuss how 
+to help the situation about of the wikipedia page of mageia which was recently 
+excluded.
+
+The page of Mageia in wkipedia  (in english) has been deleted in May 13, 2012.
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia
+
+The report of the decision here:
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mageia
+
+I mentioned this in the Fórum Mageia, topic "Re: mageia information 
+(wikipedia):"
+https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2428#p18065
+
+I'm worried because  many people will look for information about mageia next 
+week, when the Mageia 2 is released, and I really like the wikipedia and I think 
+an important source of information for everyone who wants to learn more about 
+Mageia, 
+
+I suggest create a page "Mageia 2 Press" in Mageia Wiki: ( 
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Mageia_2 ) and I would like request the 
+reactivation of the page mageia in wikipedia.
+
+There are two pages with news about mageia:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Archive:Initial_press_release_on_the_Mageia_fork
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia1_Press
+
+In category of the "press":
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Press
+
+I think it is necessary to create a page about Mageia2_Press, or Mageia_2_Press.
+
+As As the suggestion of Romain:
+
+Em sex 18 mai 2012, às 09:59:10, Romain d'Alverny escreveu:
+> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Macxi <terraagua at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > I think it is necessary to create a category "Press" and create a page
+> > about Mageia2_Press
+> 
+> Just added the category. For the page, name it "Mageia 2 Press" or
+> "Mageia 2 Press Review" (with a space before the version).
+
+Cheers 
+Macxi
+
+Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself
+Postby macxi » May 24th, '11, 21:50 
+https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15&start=100#p1907
+
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+
+On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at 
+gmail.com>wrote:
+
+>
+>
+> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Romain d'Alverny <rda at mageia.org> wrote:
+>
+>> Hi!
+>>
+>> 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.
+>>
+>> >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.
+>>
+>> 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.
+>>
+>
+> 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.
+>
+> http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/02/eugeni-dodonov-even-while-i-was-at.html
+> http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2011/08/02/mageia-1/
+>
+
+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
+