[OLPC library] style guide: avoid "currently", and date "will"
S Page
info at skierpage.com
Tue Aug 26 07:16:48 EDT 2008
Take http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_Release_Notes, please:
"The software and interfaces for creation are still in alpha test
stages, and we are just forming links "
but I think that statement dates from *2007*. There are 2000 pages on
wiki.laptop.org using the word "currently". There are 6000 with the word
"will". Any mention of the present or future on a wiki page is DEADLY.
I added “Write for posterity: avoid "currently", and date "will" ” to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Style_guide
I think this guideline is self-evident and uncontroversial, but edit
away. And force yourself to date statements about the present and future.
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=S Page user:skierpage
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