Wikipedia preparation for 2.4 release

Stephanie Das Gupta stephaniedasgupta at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 15:40:35 BST 2012


On 04/11/2012 06:19 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:42:55 schrieb Markus:
>> Am Mittwoch 11 April 2012, 13:19:49 schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau:
>>> So this is how Wikipedia works these days, everyone writes articles about
>>> their own stuff?
>> Well, I'm not a Calligra author (in fact I'm longer a Wikipedian than a KDE
>> member).
> Ah, okay, sorry, do not yet have a complete picture of all the people involved
> in Calligra, so misassumed here.
>
>> The best way for official members is to publish a blog post about
>> fact that Wikipedia authors can use as reference. Eg. I have to admit that I
>> called Words a fork of KWord on WP because the early Calligra website
>> called Words "a word processor created from KWord" or something like that.
>> It required a blog post by Boemann to get that straight.
> :)
>
>>> * Sometimes only half of the program names are used, like just "Words" or
>>> "Sheets". But that should be always "Calligra Words" or "Calligra Sheets",
>>> as this is the official full name.
>> IMO that's part of editorial judgment for better readability. In their
>> dedicated articles the actual names are explained, eg. "Calligra Words" is
>> one article but another is "Karbon (software)".
>> LibreOffice has something similar:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Included_applications
>> That table calls the word processor Writer but its article states that the
>> full name is LibreOffice Writer.
> Hm. Just that this blurs the real name a little. If I had to decide, I would
> insist in the full name everywhere, no made up short forms.
>
> After all the LibreOffice authors use the short forms you mention themselves,
> see e.g. http://www.libreoffice.org/features/writer/
>
> This is different in Calligra. Its e.g. always "Calligra Words". Oh wait, not.
> At least the urls are just calligra.org/words/, the icon on the first page
> have just a short form, and the big picture on e.g. calligra.org/words/ also
> has just "Words" in it. Leftovers, or still current state?
>
> And calligra.org/flow/ is unsure if the full name is "Calligra Flow" or
> "Flow". Same for "Calligra Plan".
>
> userbase.kde.org/Calligra also needs an update, in any case. Anyone working on
> this, and would coordinate what is updated by whom? I would spent some time on
> that, tonight.
I fixed most of userbase.kde.org/Calligra just now. Will finish looking 
through and seeing what needs to be still needs to be fixed tonight.
> In general, other real Calligra devs and especially the Calligra marketing
> people should better chime in here, while I chime out :)
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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