Parallax on Wikipedia

piguy101

I am a little reluctant to post this, be here goes: This may have been discussed before, but the entry for Parallax on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax,_Inc._(company) is in dire need of improvement. Currently, it has a point of view tag and is out of date. The page could use major improvements, but all new material needs to be sourced! I am an active wikipedian, but am not familiar enough with Parallax to make sweeping changes. If you do contribute to the page, the edit must not be promotional or be an advertisement. Wikipedia's policy is "Be Bold," so let's see if we can update the page. Thanks

kwinn

Perhaps we could use this thread to post contributions so the forumista's can review them for accuracy and suggest changes before posting updates to Wikipedia. What do you think?

piguy101

Yes, we could do that. Hopefully collaboration will create a general consensus. However, Wikipedia keeps every edit archived. If you click on the "view history" tab at the top, you can see what others have done. If someone vandalizes a page or simply makes a mistake, it can easily be reverted.

Ken Gracey

We would also very much appreciate an accurate, up to date Wikipedia listing of Parallax. Where we're headed with Propeller 2 warrants explanation about Propeller 1, the very open Propeller 2 design cycle and the FPGA releases, the C compilers, and the step by step opening of our tools to run on every platform. There's also the company capabilities, the staff, etc.

I would be glad to offer anything you want to know in this thread, if that helps the authoring of accurate content.

Ken Gracey

piguy101

I have made some modest changes recently. For Parallax's website, should I put http://parallax.com/ or http://www.parallaxsemiconductor.com/?

piguy101

According to http://parallax.com/company/meet-our-team, Ken is the president. However, http://www.parallaxsemiconductor.com/corporate/biographies says that Chip is the president. Which site is correct? Are they both correct as Parallax Semiconductor is a subsidiary of Parallax? This is confusing.

localroger

Wikipedia's attitude toward corrections can be bizzarre. My wife has written a couple of notable articles over the years and has a very small stub Wikipedia entry. For a couple of years she was helpless to get them to alter their misstatement of her birthplace, because as the topic of the article her input was "original research." While there is obviously good reason to bar people from editing their own biographies, when those edits are noncontroversial matters of fact which can't be sourced elsewhere it doesn't seem to make much sense to reject them. Wikipedia is amazingly useful considering what it is but it has spawned a really strange and off-putting culture in the process.

Ken Gracey

Use www.parallax.com. Ken Gracey is CEO and Chip Gracey is Director of R&D and the primary owner of Parallax. We are R&D driven so the titles don't imply any kind of hierarchy.

LoopyByteloose

We all know that the internet has matured and the biggest fortunes to be made are likely to have already been achieved.

But as the internet matures, the amount of abandoned websites and broken links are increasing. People can't seem to keep up. But in some cases, they don't even know how to monitor what they need to keep up with and what they might want to let go of.

So it seems that a robotic search and monitoring of out-dated links and broken links might actually be a very lucrative startup for some network mavens out there. At some point, you might even sell out to Google or Yahoo.

Companies that re active and dependent on internet sales would love to minimize misinformation about the current status of their products. There is a genuine demand for providing this monitoring service if you can just figure out how to do so.