Parallax Inc. on Wikipedia

Maddie the Intern

Hey Everybody!

To further Parallax Inc.'s presence in the public eye, I've been editing Parallax's Wikipedia page.
I then clicked the link for the page on the Boe Bot, and it was marked for seven-day deletion. I caught it on the fifth day, two days·before it was to be deleted, and noticed why it was going to be deleted: there were no references to verify the Boe Bot's notable impact on robotics education!

I found references for it, but·the page (and other pages about Parallax)·needs your help!
If you have a couple minutes, please expand any pages related to Parallax Inc, giving them links to articles, references, and sources.

I'm still learning PBASIC code, and SPIN is a mystery to me, but there are·members on the forum who I know can add to the Wiki articles and expand upon articles about those codes, Parallax robots, and microcontrollers.

There's no pages on the SumoBot, Stingray, or discontinued bots like the Toddler.
The Penguin Robot Wiki·is not linked to Parallax's Wiki Page either!
If you know how to edit Wikipedia articles, please edit them, if you've never edited on Wikipedia before, there's lots of help for beginners (like me!)
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Please help out if you have a minute-

Thank you!

Maddie the Intern

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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..." -The Muppets

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RossH

@maddie,

You'll have a full time job at Parallax just keeping up with the number of "marketing" related threads in the Propeller forum alone!

Of course a lot of what we say is undoutedly complete nonsense, but we have lots of fun arguing about it anyway

I try and visit the sandbox occasionally, but (probably like most of us) I often don't have time to keep up with all the forums.

I did notice that the Propeller is not mentioned on the wikipediea "Symmetric Multiprocessing" (SMP) page, and it should be - perhaps adding a new section specifically on SMP microcontrollers. I'll try and find some time to edit it.

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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina

LoopyByteloose

I enjoy Wikipedia and very often use it for a first reference search to get up to speed about a new item or topic, but trying to keep a presence up-to-date can be a challenge. Like all computer automated information sources, they decide whether or not to delete something by their own in-house criteria, including the number of search hits it gets. And also, by how dedicated contributors are. It is all a bit of voodoo.

What I appreciate more is that Parallax does so well at providing documentation for discontinued products as I have a few that are still working fine (including a Toddler robot and a BS2p40 board). At first I would misplace printed documentation, but now I rely nearly entirely on digital files. It really is helpful that Parallax is the archive of last resort.

I suppose that if Parallax offered a short list of Wikipedia headings that they want to maintain, some of us might be interested in keeping those items up-to-date and active.

These days, I keep a watchful and worried eye on the SXes as they are at end-of-life but I am far from being done with them. But at some point, Wikipedia is going to be unknowing or at odds with Parallax's idea of what its important. And Parallax will always have better information as it is in its interest.

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Ain't gadetry a wonderful thing?

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