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Any Wikipedia editors in our forums?

Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
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Hey there,

Was just doing a bit of research about Google's Blockly and came across the Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockly

Parallax isn't mentioned in this article, but we have several core products with Blockly support: S3 Robot (released); Hackable Electronic Badge (released, but Blocks are progressing) and BlocklyProp Starter Kit (October 24th release), a Propeller C Learning System kit with Blockly support.

If anybody has the time and knowledge to see that we are properly featured in this article we'd be appreciative.

Thanks,

Ken Gracey

Comments

  • whickerwhicker Posts: 749
    Do you have any magazine articles or news stories or reputable reviews where these ideas are featured?

    Without sources it's going to fail to meet the notability requirement and literally every sentence will receive "citation needed", and then eventually purged or the article reverted back to the earlier edition.

    I haven't done anything with Wikipedia for about 8 years, not really wanting to go back.
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    This is a major point where Wikipedia fails. My wife wrote a virally interesting article many years ago and so she has a Wikipedia page. But even though they got fundamental facts like her birth date wrong, she couldn't correct them because she was a "primary source." Well, yeah, it's kind of primary when it's YOUR BIRTH DATE. But they wouldn't take anything other than an article published by an unbiased third persone source as evidence. Which is totally stupid when you have an actual human being about whom the article is about waving multiple ID's. FAIL.
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    We have the actual product.

    What's better than that?

    http://learn.parallax.com/tutorials/robot/scribbler-robot/scribbler-3 is our published material.

    Ken Gracey
  • Martin HodgeMartin Hodge Posts: 1,246
    Wikipedia strictly prohibits self published materials as cited sources. You'll have to wait until the info makes it into reputable third-party publications before it will be accepted on Wikipedia.

    Although how hard you have to fight this process will depend on who decides to get involved in the issue. So... Politics...
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Okay, this is starting to make sense to me now. Thank you for all of the considerate replies to help me understand.

    We need to get others to publish now, so we will focus on that effort through our professor customers.

    Ken Gracey
  • geo_leemangeo_leeman Posts: 190
    If having it included in some of our course content for the techniques class would count as reputable, we could certainly do that. (See my recent post on our course)It's not peer reviewed in the strict sense though, so that may not be enough?
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    Sure, it would certainly help. I'll take a look at your other thread for the geo course with electronics.

    - Ken
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