Cocoapedia

[Oliver Drobnik]

Hi,

Yesterday we relaunched the Cocoapedia, a free, open and non-profit wiki.

It's goal is to be the place to put any facts related to people, events, tools, apps and anything else that one would want to search for in a Cocoa-centric encyclopedia. The aim is to provide concise information for example for journalists who want to check their facts if they mention you, your company, your services or apps.

It is not supposed to compete with other existing sites like StackOverflow, any Forum or this Google Group. Just the facts about what makes up our Cocoa Universe. Anything you would expect in a socially edited encyclopedia, but that does not mange to take the relevance criteria hurdle to make it into Wikipedia. For example most of us have not published two books to be deemed 'relevant' for inclusion. On Cocoapedia you ARE relevant because you are a member of the ever growing Cocoa family.

The first time we tried out Cocoapedia it failed because of lack of direction, focus and contributors. One problem was that we feared vandalism and thus closed it down too much, which in turn prevented Google from indexing it.

Not this time. Now the restrictions are the same as Wikipedia.

Please feel encouraged to add an entry for yourself and your development company. Or somebody else will...

Kind regards
Oliver Drobnik

[Caius Durling]

On 13 Oct 2010, at 07:54, Oliver Drobnik wrote:

> Yesterday we relaunched the Cocoapedia, a free, open and non-profit wiki.

Link?

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[Felix Holmgren]

www.cocoapedia.com

2010/10/13 Caius Durling <ca...@caius.name>:

[Rafael Bugajewski]

And what is the difference between Cocoapedia and www.cocoadev.com?

I’m pretty happy with the resources on the latter site and I think that focusing and improving one resource is better than splitting the knowledge up. That’s just me of course and we live in a free world, so good luck with the Cocoapedia.

Rafael

[Eimantas Vaičiūnas]

cocoadev.com is dead.

[Rafael Bugajewski]

Yeah,

when I look at the Recent Changes page (http://cocoadev.com/index.pl?RecentChanges) it looks fucking dead to me.

Rafael

[Patryk Doliński]

Yeah, link please? ;)

Pozdrawiam,

Patryk Doliński

mail: self...@me.com
web: selfcode.pl
mobile: +48 509 850 975

[lord anubis]

So, you can do something about it. :-)

On Oct 13, 10:16 am, Rafael Bugajewski <raf...@juicycocktail.com>
wrote:

[drops]

The focus of Cocoapedia is on encyclopedic knowledge and facts. This
it does not aim to compete with any other sites, like StackOverflow
for questions or a free-form thing like CocoaDev. (apart from this,
CocoaDev displays a 503 HTTP error on most links)

It's basically a who-is-who of Developers, Companies, Apps, Software
Components etc.

The idea is to have a central place, just like Wikipedia, to collect
facts about the Cocoa Universe. It's NOT about having a forum or
asking questions or solving problems. Down the road your entry on
Cocoapedia will be third or forth on Google when somebody is searching
for info about you or your company. It is meant to be a resource that
a journalist could use if he wants to state some facts about you
without having to interview you.

We hope to have an every growing staff of volunteers who create
entries for companies and people we come across.

Since this is purely non-profit I changed the domain to cocoapedia.org
(.com being redirected).

So, you are cordially invited.

kind regards
Oliver Drobnik

[Rafael Bugajewski]

Probably I should start with improving my irony.

Rafael

[Michael Kaye]

Alas in this brave new world you'll have to revert to the use if smileys. And just for good measure :-)

[funk_e]

Lol!

Don't worry... I got it. I actually followed the link ;-)