Create Cylc Wikipedia article

[kinow]

Hi,

When searching for Cylc on search engines, some of the top results (with privacy filters) include Cylc links. But Google and other search engines give Wikipedia articles a high rank in the result hits.

Other tools such as Emacs, PBS, SLURM, have already pages. And when searching for some terms, Google - for instance - will display extra information retrieved from Wikipedia.

I started a draft for Cylc some time ago, and had another go at it now over these long holidays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brunodepaulak/sandbox. It's normal to use a sandbox when preparing a new page. If we decide to go ahead with it, myself or somebody else would have to submit it to review/approval, before it gets published.

After that, searching for Cylc should bring our results with a slight advantage. Plus, personally I like Wikipedia articles for its flatness, so that I can check information about a project without having to dig into its website (guess that was the idea of DOAP).

Cheers
Bruno

[hjoliver]

Good idea @kinow

At a minimum, I think the article should explain how "cycling" is different from real time scheduling, and how Cylc treats cycling workflows as never-ending single workflows (without loops/cycles) in which the tasks repeat; and it should mention production forecasting use at NIWA and Met Office etc. Presumably I can't edit in your sandbox?

[hjoliver]

(huh, maybe I can edit your draft).

[kinow]

(huh, maybe I can edit your draft).

That would be great if you can. You would probably be the best to explain the history, and its features :) And if you prefer to write down in some word/opendocument/txt/markdown/gist/etc I can grab it and convert to Wikipedia's syntax 👍

[oliver-sanders]

(we should do this once 8.0.0 has been released)

[hjoliver]

(I see Bruno's sandbox page still exists).