fading into obscurity
Wikipedia, has been in turmoil, more than once over the seriousness of their project. recently they decided to delete the biography of Rob Levin founder and former project leader of PDPC and Open Projects aka. freenode. an internet relay chat communications network, used by a massive amount of open source projects.
This is because of him not being notable enough, which to me, is unreal. the man built and offered up a communications infrastructure for the betterment of the open source movement, this is a big milestone, it helped people to communicate, it also helped the various projects to pool their efforts.
it’s been said he’s not notable enough, but is really the latest internet meme notable enough? by what criteria should we judge people. by what they’ve done? by who they know? or by what they’ve done for others?
Rob did something, that no-one else did, prior to the freenode project. obviously a lot of people feel that they could’ve done it just as easily, this where i grew up, is called “hyperbole” either you deliver or just shut up.
freenode isnt just yet another irc network, freenode is an institution, and one that Rob Levin, was instrumental in forming.
i’d say that this could be seen as a failiure of Wikipedia, to prove it’s worthyness to knowledge.
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