The time after Lotusphere is always interesting. Those of us that got to go get energized and then that energy ripples through the community including those that were not able to go. Since Lotusphere 2006, I've seen a lot more activity in the Domino blogging community, the creation of a new Anti-FUD blog at IBM, Show and Tell Thursdays, and DominoBlogs...the first (that I know of) attempt to create a central catalog of all known active Domino bloggers.
I thought of something that could use some more eyes: Wikipedia. Look at the following links for the Wikipedia entries (sorry, I'm English-centric) for Domino and Notes:
Wikipedia: IBM Lotus Domino
Wikipedia: Lotus Notes
The Domino server entry is a stub and the Notes client entry is almost a stub.
Compare:
Wikipedia: Microsoft Exchange Server
Not a whole lot more verbage, but definitely more up to date and arguable more useful.
Now I'm not advocating using Wikipedia for marketing the product, but a the same time, Domino tends to be on the losing end of FUD campaigns, and I think that the more useful information that is out there the better. I'm going to start looking into what I can contribute to the Notes and Domino entries in Wikipedia and I think that it would be a good thing if others in the community were willing and able to add to them as well.
Comments? Good idea? Bad?
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I've contributed to the Lotus Notes article and also to the Lotus Software article. I wasn't aware that someone had started an IBM Lotus Domino article, but it's a good idea. If you think there should be more in the Lotus Notes article, by all means go and add it! I've got it on my watch list, and I'll be glad to help. Bear in mind that Wikipedia aims to be "encyclopedic" -- whatever that means. My impression is that it means the topic is covered broadly, but not deeply, but I could be wrong.
The idea originally came to me on the Domino server entry. I thought to look at the Notes client entry part way through.
It's admittedly a partially baked idea. I hadn't thought it all out all the way yet. I couldn't figure out how to see the history of the document I was looking at either so I don't know when they were last updated.
Some of the other topics on Wikipedia are pretty deeply covered. Not so much on software sometimes but I'm no expert. My brain's been a little broken the last couple weeks. I hate to see the Domino server entry as a stub. I'll figure it out.
Near the top of each page, you should see four tabs: "Article", "Discussion", "Edit This Page", and
"History". On the History tab, you'll see a list of "cur" and "last" links followed by a link to a version. Click any version's link to see it as it was saved. Click "cur" for a particular version to see a comparison of that version to the current. Click "last" to see a comparison of that version to the one that immediately preceded it. Or you can compare any two arbitrary versions using the radio buttons and the "compare selected versions" button.
Gotcha. Thanks. Makes sense. I was too distracted by the left-hand links that I usually use.