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Despite noticing that an Expressionengine entry attempt had previously been deleted, I created it [again] (I took the Nike approach). I think EE deserves it.

It is extremely basic. I based it on the Movable Type entry.

Needs work…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionengine

Hopefully someone knowledgable will make it look useful before it gets deleted again.

This is probably the fifth attempt at a Wikipedia page for ExpressionEngine, and I do not hold too high of hopes for this one surviving.  And while the most knowledgeable people about ExpressionEngine are the employees of EllisLab, it seems it is forbidden for us to actually edit such an entry about one of our products.  I live Wikipedia…I really do….

Yeah, I know. I can understand the reasoning. they have to keep spam out of it, but I think the principle should supercede the law. I think they can be a bit bloody-minded.

If you want to email me some content, i would be happy to post it. Especially the history stuff…

I made a minor modification this morning, you had the current version set as 4.01 which I think was from MT, I set it to 1.6.0.  I was planning on adding some history to it, but then realized that I’d need to go back and verify dates and stuff. So maybe later, but my morning is already kicking me in the @.

I made a minor modification this morning, you had the current version set as 4.01 which I think was from MT, I set it to 1.6.0.  I was planning on adding some history to it, but then realized that I’d need to go back and verify dates and stuff. So maybe later, but my morning is already kicking me in the @.

Thanks. Yeah I copied MT and ripped out a bunch of stuff but obviously missed something. Yeah there’s always work effort involved. If any staff want to PM or email me, I will “parse” it for spam 😉 and own it for publication. I think that is legit.

If they remove it again, I will write to them with a “please explain”.

I will see what we can do about the history stuff (although so much of it is shrouded in darkness).  Wikipedia tends to want references and citations, and the most recent review of EE on a non-blog is Travis’ CMS Wire.

Why does Wikipedia not want EE on there?  I see many less notable things such as Half-Life mods that aren’t even in development and never made it big.  What’s the reasoning behind this?  I love Wikipedia yet it often pisses me off because of things like this.

I worked on getting Tempur-Pedic’s wikipedia page on there.  They rejected the text we had written over ten times.  Our submissions were pretty un-biased, I thought.  Eventually, another person submitted one that stuck.  It’s not completely accurate and Tempur-Pedic would like to change much of it, but it finally got on there.

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Hm, I see that the EE Wikipedia page was deleted once again in mid-December.  By some British fellow who is really into birds.  Why do we even try?

Looks like it’s back again.

Maybe this time it’ll last the summer. 😊

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressionEngine

Hope that it stays there and gets expanded….