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I agree with the above. However, from my experience in CAD, Wikipedia's notability and importance ratings are strongly skewed towards open-source and against c
by delhanty 10y ago
I agree with the above.
However, from my experience in CAD, Wikipedia's notability and importance ratings are strongly skewed towards open-source and against commercial systems.
High-importance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FreeCAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FreeCAD
Low-importance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SolidWorks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SolidWorks
No disrespect meant to the FreeCAD folks, but that is definitely back-to-front! The article on Solidworks lists 165,000 companies using the product as of 2013. How is that low-importance?
The skew tends to be even worse against enterprise class systems.
- razwall 10y agoThose importance ratings are utterly unimportant. In the vast majority of cases, they are just the opinion of a single editor who looked at the article for 10 seconds, and they only affect how the article is listed in some automated report that nobody ever looks at.