[PD] Pdpedia and random generation

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Mar 31 03:22:03 CEST 2009


On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:46 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> Philip Potter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> First post to the list, very new to pd, hello to all. I have a few  
>> questions:
>> 1) Is pdpedia a serious project? It seems like there was a lot of
>> activity some time ago, but the people there got burned out and now  
>> is
>> a target for spammers (particularly the "myobject" and "help patch"
>> pages). I have done some updating of it but if noone else is doing
>> anything to it then maybe I should be looking for other pd resources.
>
> hi philip,
> afaik, pdpedia is poorly maintained at the moment. I think there  
> will be a better solution in the future to get rid of spam and  
> optimize searching and contributions. for now, your observation of  
> burnout seems correct.
> marius.

I think pdpedia has a lot of potential, but it needs someone to take  
ownership of it.  Its really open to anyone who wants to take it on.   
It is useful now for searching based on keywords.  I use it to find  
objects based on key words.

.hc

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