Talk:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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bad link as of 25sep2002
- If you mean the external link, I've made it point to a working mirror. There may be a better one out there, I don't know, but this is better than nought. --Camembert 18:44 Sep 25, 2002 (UTC)
This page needs encyclopedising, and the Wikipedia-specific stuff moved to the Wikipedia: namespace. I'll do it myself when I have time, but I'm officially not here right now ;-) (Also, I'm not so sure FOLDOC is under the FDL, in general, it's just that Denis let us relicence it thus; which is a subtle difference, but one that will need to be checked in making this into a proper encyclopedia article...) IMSoP 19:36, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
- FOLDOC is under the FDL: http://foldoc.org/?foldoc
Delete all unexplained terms
What's the point of keeping these long lists of bare acronyms? I got to one of these pages because I searched for a term, and was at first happy to find it in here. I had to scroll way down only to find that there was absolutely nothing about it here. This is very annoying and a waste of every user's time! I vote for deleting all entries that do not have a link or an explanation. — Sebastian 00:31, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)
- If you're still around, could you clarify what long lists of bare acronyms you were talking about? The Wikipedia article "Free On-line Dictionary of Computing", which this page is intended for discussing does not, nor ever has as far as I can tell, contained such a list. Did you mean somewhere else on Wikipedia? Or maybe on FOLDOC itself - in which case mentionning it here will not gain anything, as this page has nothing to do with the organisation of that largely unrelated website. - IMSoP 19:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Notability
I am obviously slightly biased :-) but I would say that FOLDOC is notable as one of the earliest free computing reference resources on the Internet. Though it has been entirely eclipsed by Wikipedia, it is still up and running and I even update it regularly.
- The primary concern there, though, is that the notability of the site isn't clearly established in the article proper and (just as importantly) isn't backed up by "multiple verifiable sources". MrZaiustalk 09:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)