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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">IMO, as long as you’re just stating facts, it shouldn’t matter who edits it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>William Woodall<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> User discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ros-users] improving ROS on wikipedia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for pointing that out Vincent, I agree that should be spruced up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe I am making this up, but is it considered bad form to modify "your own" wikipedia page? I guess what I am asking is, is it better to have the community write the ROS wikipedia page rather some of the core maintainers here at OSRF?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Vincent Rabaud <<a href="mailto:vincent.rabaud@gmail.com" target="_blank">vincent.rabaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had a look at the wikipedia page for ROS and it is fairly dull:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">(and it's not even on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics_middleware" target="_blank">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics_middleware</a> )<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing about :<br>
- the build system<br>
- the fact that parts of it are in distros now (urdfdom in Ubuntu)<br>
- about the companies that use it<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- no screenshots (about RViz, rQt, robotWebTools ...)<br>
- the latest stats (7k registered on <a href="http://answers.ros.org" target="_blank">
answers.ros.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- ROSCon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">So please, let's brainstorm here about what is needed and let's contribute to the page !<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="hoenzb"><span style="color:#888888">Vincent</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>
William Woodall<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ROS Development Team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:william@osrfoundation.org" target="_blank">william@osrfoundation.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://williamjwoodall.com/" target="_blank">http://williamjwoodall.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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