Suggestions for clarifying the goals or scope of this project, or for organizing the concurrency articles, are most welcome. --Allan McInnes 21:27, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Allan: Good luck with this. I am happy to keep an eye on it and perhaps contribute in a small way. --Jonathan Bowen 14:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
After a little more thinking about Rudy's comments about the potential overlap with Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science, and the need for critical mass, I have decided that it probably makes more sense to join (and attempt to revitalize) the CS project rather than starting a new project. In the worst case, assuming that revitalization fails, the CS project can just get taken over by the concurrency crowd :-) Best case, the CS project starts rolling again (let's face it, a lot of CS articles on Wikipedia need work), and we get a lot more people working in concurrency too.
That said, I will be leaving the Concurrency project page up (possibly with some edits to make it read less like a project proposal) as a point of reference. Depending on how things go over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science I may eventually look at spinning it off into a CS child project. In the mean time, lets try to use the CS wikiproject as a venue for concurrency discussions. --Allan McInnes 05:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Allan, When Wikipedia started many people collaborated, with your enthusiasm and good spirit. And, like you people that know what their are talking about. I was too busy to write entire articles but helped with small changes, because I reviewed articles before recommending to my students.
What discouraged me, to do a more active collaboration is the change in the attitude of Wikipedians. It seems to exist a boycott against Wikipedia or maybe just the product of the way it works.
The problem is that many articles are controlled by kids with no formal education in the subjects that they pretend to write about. They even insulted Bertrand Meyer when he fixed the article about Eiffel. I don't know him but he took it with good attitude understanding the immaturity of those who insulted him.
Those kids gain control of Wikipedia because they have time to spend in learning how to write boots to advice them when changes are made in the articles they control. They believe that they know about many subjects, but many times is what they learned in high school repeating their lessons. With a very arrogant attitude they censor everything that don't match with their school notebooks, using a lot of pretexts to delete changes that they don't understand, for example "that is original work". or "Wikipedia is not ...", "need more references".
Concurrency is a tough subject, I don't know if those controllers had irrupted in those articles, because the main changes that they do are in things they studied in high school or general introductory undergraduate courses. With that criteria they ruin many articles. But they have all the time to spend hours doing that, earning more points to get more privileges to gain more control.
There are more serious alternatives to Wikipedia, maybe you should move there if you are still motivated in this task. You have a very good panorama of the subject, perhaps you want to write a collaborative book in a git repository. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:106E:B:50B6:44D1:9C42:AC2A:EE80 (talk) 06:46, 25 February 2022 (UTC)