[SCC_Active_Members] RE: Wikipedia

[Bernard L. Peuto]

Ward

I am glad to hear that and hope that we can find a smart way to do it while
still avoiding some of the pitfalls mentioned by Henry.

We do need volunteers to help us get started on what should be done and do
it. Volunteer anyone?

Bernard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward Cunningham [mailto:ward at c2.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:24 PM
> To: Bernard L. Peuto
> Cc: 'Tim Shoppa'; SCC_active at computerhistory.org; 
> randall.neff at gmail.com; nassi at nassi.com; LMM at acm.org; 
> aek at bitsavers.org
> Subject: Wikipedia
> 
> 
> On Aug 13, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Bernard L. Peuto wrote:
> 
> > Concerning the Wikipedia. I think that we should provide a complete 
> > historical experience for our web site visitors and I would 
> not be too 
> > keen to point to other sites for the kind of content 
> commonly found in 
> > the Wikipedia. That information should be directly 
> accessible to our 
> > own visitors. Since duplicating their work would not make sense 
> > either, I would recommend that we cite them with permission.
> 
> I think it would be awesome for SCC and Wikipedia to be 
> feeding complementary content to each other on a regular 
> basis. -- Ward
> 
>