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contributing to Wikipedia, etc.contributing to Wikipedia, etc.Posted Jun 25, 2004 8:38 UTC (Fri) by ami.ganguli (guest, #9613)In reply to: 3rd party apps by coriordan Parent article: Singapore to be 'port of call' for Linux (ZDNet)
You might also tell your friend that he may in fact find himself contributing in some way. I was taking a Finance course a while ago and looked up some definitions on Wikipedia. One of them was incorrect and I fixed it. Not a huge contribution, be point is that I wasn't intending to contribute - I just saw a small detail that I could fix and I did. I'm sure there are thousands of other people who do the same thing, and the Wikipedia is better because of it. Same thing happened a few months ago with the Apache APR. I'm not really a contributer to the project, but I was using the library and realized I needed a small change. I coded it up and sent it to the maintainers. After a couple of small revisions it got in. Kind of cool. Now I can look at new versions of Apache and notice my tiny little bit of code is there.
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