On 2009 Mar 13, at 22:50, Frossie wrote:
> Frankly if people don't know they are running (or not running)
> Starlink software, I shudder to think how much they know about whether
> they are running "Astrogrid" or not.
Does the Starlink page on wikipedia[1] make this sufficiently clear?
It does imply it in the first paragraph -- "In the former respect at
least, it was analogous to the US IRAF project, with which it long
maintained a friendly rivalry" -- but the 'branding' might need to be
stronger than that, perhaps listing projects that Starlink is _not_ in
a 'relation to other projects' section. Perhaps there should even be
a separate 'astronomy software projects' page which distinguishes the
projects explicitly and emphatically.
Wikipedia is, after all, where people will probably go first to know
about the projects, before even the projects' own pages.
See you,
Norman
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_Project
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
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