Nick Bradbury recently posted on his blog about his products' Wikipedia entries. There are entries for FeedDemon and a very good one for Homesite.
This got me wondering whether there was an entry for Pretty Good Solitaire. The last time I had checked, there wasn't one.
But I checked again and now there is one: Pretty Good Solitaire Wikipedia Entry.
Like Nick's FeedDemon entry, this is just a stub. It's missing a lot of things - of course the latest version is not mentioned (only being a couple of days old), the new 2006 Shareware Industry Award is not listed in the Awards area, I'm never mentioned anywhere (boo! hiss!), it doesn't mention anything about all of the original games that I invented for the program, and there's no link to this blog.
Like Nick, I can't edit this entry (because of Wikipedia's policy that the person who knows the most about a subject can't contribute). But hopefully over time some people will come along and edit it and make it better (hint, hint).
Thomas,
I amended the Wikipedia entry to include most the points you brought up that they forgot to mention.
Least I could do for being an inspiration to all small software business owners and indie game developers.
- Cheers
Posted by: Andrey Butov | January 21, 2007 at 03:34 PM
"Like Nick, I can't edit this entry (because of Wikipedia's policy that the person who knows the most about a subject can't contribute)."
Also the person who is very likely to have a NPOV.
Posted by: | January 22, 2007 at 03:55 AM
Thanks, Andrey.
To whomever: what's a NPOV? Can I park it in my driveway?
Tom
Posted by: Thomas Warfield | January 22, 2007 at 09:27 AM
Just looked at the Wikipedia page - looks good, but it leads me to one question:
Is the bit about the cheat codes true???
Posted by: baird | January 22, 2007 at 11:11 PM
Baird,
No, that cheat code stuff is just wrong. I have no idea what that stuff is, it looks like it must have been copied from something else. Clearly some sort of bad edit of the article happened.
Posted by: Tom | January 23, 2007 at 09:39 AM