Posting bulb photos elsewhere
Peter Taggart (Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:20:10 PST)
Many articles on wikipedia are erroneous anyway. I tried to modify a couple
but have not mastered it. Too many people on wikipedia have their facts
wrong when they write up plant articles.
I think that Roland and others in favour of using face book are talking of
chit-chat with snapshots, which is not meant to compete with the library
qualities of the wiki as it exists now, and do not need to be search able.
Peter (UK)
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Rodger Whitlock <totototo@telus.net> wrote:
to start using Facebook is a balkanization of "where to find bulb photos
on the web".
It's quite one thing for PBS to set up a Facebook account and point it to
the
PBS wiki, but that's as far as I would go. Remember, Google indexes the PBS
wiki so someone searching for information on bulbs can find the PBS wiki
easily
enough.
One thing that could be done to improve things is to make sure that
Wikipedia
articles on specific bulbs include links to relevant articles on the PBS
wiki.
Those who are easy with their photos going into the public domain can also
beef
up Wikipedia with suitable photos; many articles lack good photos of the
most
obvious subjects (though I think the horticultural articles are not the
sinners
in chief).