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> but even technologies with vibrant communities often lack a wikipedia page Do you mind mentioning some of them?

• ghaff 9y ago
  Real quick search but, for example, linkerd does not have a page and fluentd is little more than a stub. There is separately a list of Linux Foundation projects and one can argue that they don't need their own page. But it does point out that there's a lot of inconsistency about the quality and depth of articles. Lots of articles are pretty good but then I'll hit some important tech topic that has a pretty bad entry. Things like biographies are also wildly uneven depending upon how currently well-known a person is.
  • tonyztan 9y ago
    If the topic is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article, anyone is free to go ahead and improve the article. The Wikimedia Foundation doesn't write articles or decide what topics to include; the Wikipedia community does that, at no cost to the Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone who wants to contribute can join the community at any time. Also keep in mind that Wikipedia does not allow original research, so if a topic doesn't have much reliable third party coverage, then the article wouldn't be able to include a lot of details.