RE: SDW BP Glossary Meta-issue

For now, I will link to the persistent URI of the current version of Wikipedia articles, to be on the safe side. 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Little, Chris [mailto:chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk] 
Verzonden: donderdag 4 mei 2017 18:45
Aan: Svensson, Lars; Phil Archer
CC: public-sdw-wg@w3.org; Linda van den Brink; Tandy, Jeremy; Simon.Cox@csiro.au
Onderwerp: RE: SDW BP Glossary Meta-issue

Lars,

Thank you for a good point. 

Maybe we should be guided by the W3C policy? If they have one.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svensson, Lars [mailto:L.Svensson@dnb.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 5:16 PM
> To: Little, Chris
> Cc: public-sdw-wg@w3.org; Linda van den Brink; Tandy, Jeremy; 
> Simon.Cox@csiro.au
> Subject: RE: SDW BP Glossary Meta-issue
> 
> Hello Chris, all,
> 
> On Thursday, May 04, 2017 4:55 PM, Little, Chris 
> [mailto:chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk] wrote:
> 
> > As I work through the highlighted issues in the Glossary, I have 
> > been using a limited number of online resources:
> >
> > 1. Wikipedia articles. These have reasonably persistent URLs to 
> > human
> readable pages.
> 
> A meta-meta-issue: Do we cite the Wikipedia article using the "general"
> URL (e. g. [1]) or do we cite a specific version of the article (e. g.
> [2])? The latter is generally considered the better practice since the 
> article contents might change and the cited text might not be 
> contained any more (although that is probably not the case for this 
> kind of information).
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash

> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geohash&oldid=773640793

> 
> Best,
> 
> Lars

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