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Improving Standards and Specifications with WikiPedia

From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@----------.--->
To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@-----.---.--->
Date: 9/1/2005 2:50:00 PM
In a recent discussion about sensor specifications, I pointed 
out to one editor that it would be useful if the glossary 
definitions in the spec were copied into WikiPedia where 
they would instantly be available to interested parties.

Since a considerable number of editors hang out in these 
parts, what say you?  Sometimes we don't always know which 
definitions are being promulgated in standards or specs 
that don't directly affect us but are consonant or dissonant 
with work we are doing.  Wikipedia is neat way to find 
out about the conceptual overlaps and to correct and 
converge, or at least, expose the conflicts and determine 
when bifurcation is warranted.  

The answers.com widget is a very handy one to have, and 
as each spec or standard contributes it's definitions to 
wikipedia, the overall value of the webAsLibrary goes up.

len


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