Wikipedia Strawberry English version

ank99

I have been using Strawberry for a few weeks now and frankly I found what I missed for a long time. A full featured player with excellent playback. Thank you. I just joined this forum....

I have done a lot of work on Wikipedia in the past, mostly on the Greek version, so I took the liberty or reviving the draft English version for Strawberry, There is still some work to fix errors and things before we submit it for review to be generally published. I would appreciate anyone pointing any errors or maybe new things to include. You can find the article Here. Of course anyone can contribute directly if you wish.

jonas

@ank99

Since I'm the author/maintainer of the software I shouldn't edit directly, but I see the following:

"MacOS" should be "macOS"
"fork of the Clementine program in its version 1.3.1". This isn't actually correct, Strawberry wasn't actually forked from a specific release version of clementine, but various git revisions.
"Qt toolkit" should probably be "Qt framework", that's what it's officially called from the Qt Company and on Wikipedia.

Under differences:

"compatible with Qt 5 and Qt 6"

Qt 5 is no longer supported, only Qt 6.

Under References:

Points to the source code for about.cpp, an older version from 2016 for Clementine, this is probably not relevant, the authors/contributors are listed in the same file in Strawberry.
4-5. lists the same URL.
Contains a broken URL to "differences from Clementine", this URL hasn't worked for many years, the correct URL is https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Differences_from_Clementine
Links to the Privacy Policy on the Clementine website, this isn't relevant for Strawberry as far as I can see.
Links to a Clementine issue where some users claim it collects data, even though this is a connection, and no data is leaked/collected. In any case it isn't relevant for Strawberry since it does not use the songkick service at all.

ank99

@jonas
Thanks for the pointers. I believe I have made all the changes. The article is now published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_(Software). Please take a look.

jonas

@ank99

Looks like the article is marked for deletion: "An editor has nominated this article for deletion.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software)

With the reason "Fails WP:GNG The only references are to Github and other hosting sites. It does not demonstrate any sort of notability. My searches have come up empty on anything more substantial".

I don't understand the reasoning, but if someone who's not heard of it attempt to google "Strawberry" to find anything, that's obviously too generic word to return anything about "Strawberry Music Player". even "strawberry software" just returns the official website. For some reason there is no mention of the official full name of Strawberry in the Wikipedia article.
Maybe the article should use the the full official name "Strawberry Music Player" instead of just "Strawberry"? That's what's done for Guayadeque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software), although Wikipedia mostly have articles for old discontinued players.
But I don't know the reason why it's listed as simply "Strawberry (Software)" in the first place

jonhd

@ank99 I had one experience of attempting to create a Wikipedia page (it was for a UK local radio station - broadcasting on both FM and DAB - all official stuff - attracts plenty of advertising - basically pretty successful). Once a moderator (or whatever they're called) gets their teeth into your submission, it becomes a labyrinthine nightmare. After months of to'ing & fro'ing, I gave up. Never returned to editing - it was a daunting, hostile, unhelpful experience.

jonas

@jonhd

That's my impression too. Over half of the music/audio players that actually have a Wikipedia have been abandoned/discontinued for many years, also if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software, it's almost as they do not want updates.

But it might be worth to address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Strawberry_(software), if someone can comment on it, maybe it's enough to rename the article, or add more references to other articles on the web. I probably shouldn't do it as I'm directly associated