Re: Wiki clarification

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 27 February 2011 08:09, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>> Not sure why the wiki can't have it as well. It's not like there is a
>> limit on the number of pages. Also, would this apply only to
>> *commercial* third-party software? Because we have things like this:
>>
> ...
>>
>> In short, I'd like to see more on the wiki, commerical or no, I think we're
>> a mature enough community to be able to self-police any blatant commercial
>> abuse of the wiki.
>
> For what it's worth, guys, it would be trivially easy to create a
> little boilerplate-style wiki template that says "This page describes
> a commerical product, and does not necessarily reflect a view or
> endorsement by the PostgreSQL community", or whatever other wording
> that might help to allay concerns.  It's then just a matter of
> mandating that these commercial pages include the template.
>
> From my own point of view, I'm not even sure what a "commercial abuse"
> of the wiki would consist of.  If a company wants to
> advertise/brag/hype/promote a product which is based on Postgres on
> the wiki, how is that a detriment to the project, exactly?

Yeah, good point.

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