greenrd:
Is anyone else interested in forming a Haskell WikiProject on Wikipedia, to collaborate on improving and maintaining the coverage and quality of articles on Haskell-related software and topics (broadly defined)? Not just programming topics specific to Haskell, but also ones of interest to the Haskell community.
Some of you might already be doing this from time to time, but forming an explicit WikiProject might help to:
* Highlight things that could use some attention * Divide up tasks (based on expertise or interest) * Recruit more editors (sticking a banner on article Talk pages can let editors know the WikiProject exists) * Eventually (something for the future, maybe!) work together on a Wikipedia Haskell Portal * And of course, improve the visibility of Haskell on Wikipedia, which should help our community
Here's a good example to start with. The article on Eager evaluation could do with some improvement - and possibly should be merged into the Lazy evaluation article, I'm not sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation
We could also probably create some more articles on projects written in Haskell, and add more references to Haskell research papers. Software projects don't have to be polished to be covered in Wikipedia - or even working! - they essentially just have to be "notable", as the Wikipedia guidelines define it.
By the way (getting a bit offtopic here) an annoying limitation of the Wikipedia category system, that you couldn't run queries like "Give me all the articles in the Haskell category that are also in the Unreferenced category" has now been partially addressed by the experimental prototype of Category Intersection:
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/intersection/
This is slightly better than Googling, because crucially, it searches *recursively* through categories. That means it will turn up articles that are in a subcategory of "Category:Haskell programming language" but don't explicitly mention Haskell. Don't know if there any such articles yet, but it's worth bearing in mind that you can do this. I think it will, in principle, make topic-specific maintenance a bit more convenient - and it's what I've been waiting for before getting involved in topic-specific maintenance.
If you want to just express interest in signing up for such a WikiProject (no commitment required whatsoever!), please reply privately via email or publicly on my User Talk page (User talk:Greenrd) - to avoid clogging up this mailing list.
Yes! Also, we have many good writers who've written extensively on topics on blogs who I'm sure would be happy to donate content. -- Don