Talk:Aaron Swartz/Archive 7
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Was Aaron the creator of Markdown?
According to the link in the page itself (first paragraph) he was not, this should be correctly stated.
PS: My bad, it just says it helped develop, which seems congruent with information elsewhere.
80.189.38.208 (talk) 11:58, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- The following sources indicate that Swartz co-created Markdown with Gruber, and I've cited them in the article:
- Hendler, James (10 November 2022). "Foreword by James Hendler". Aaron Swartz’s A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work (PDF). Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. ix. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-79444-5 – via Wikisource.
This document was originally produced in "markdown" format, a simplified HTML/Wiki format that Aaron co-designed with John Gruber ca. 2004.
- Krewinkel, Albert; Winkler, Robert (8 May 2017). "Formatting Open Science: agilely creating multiple document formats for academic manuscripts with Pandoc Scholar" (PDF). PeerJ Computer Science. p. 6. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.112. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017.
Markdown was originally developed by John Gruber in collaboration with Aaron Swartz, with the goal to simplify the writing of HTML documents
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- Hendler, James (10 November 2022). "Foreword by James Hendler". Aaron Swartz’s A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work (PDF). Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. ix. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-79444-5 – via Wikisource.
- — Newslinger talk 03:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm going to suggest that this is potentially an instance of citogenesis, with the the sources you have added getting their info directly from Wikipedia itself. The wikipedia articles stated for many years that the two were co-creators.
- John Gruber has stated on multiple occasions over the last decade that he is the sole creator:
- > 2014: I am Markdown’s sole creator, not co-creator. I assume, you’re thinking of Aaron Swartz, whose feedback was instrumental...
- > 2014: A huge help. My muse. And sole beta tester/feedback giver. But he wasn’t a co-creator.
- > 2016: Probably referring to Aaron Swartz, whom Wikipedia incorrectly credited as co-creator for years.
- > 2023: Wikipedia is wrong on that. I created Markdown. Aaron was my original muse and beta tester. He was a friend and his feedback was remarkably helpful, but he was not co-creator.
- I appreciate your addition of WP:INDEPENDENT sources to verify the claims, however they appear to be incorrect on Swartz's involvement. Citing Gruber's self-published WP:ABOUTSELF statements should be enough to credit him on Wikipedia as the sole creator of markdown.
- PK-WIKI (talk) 04:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- WP:ABOUTSELF does not allow self-published sources to be used for claims that are "unduly self-serving" (such as the claim that Gruber has sole authorship of a language that reliable sources describe as jointly created by both individuals) or "claims about third parties" (such as Gruber's claims about Swartz). The first source is editor James Hendler's foreword in the posthumous publication of Swartz's manuscript, which I find unlikely to be a case of citogenesis. Citogenesis can be used as an argument to cast doubt on any reliable source cited on Wikipedia that was published after the Wikipedia article was written, so I don't find that to be a compelling reason to ignore these sources. — Newslinger talk 04:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Change the year Aaron enrolled at Stanford from 2005 to 2004 in the "Early Life" section, as the cited source states he enrolled in 2004. CosmosStarlightt (talk) 03:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Done —Sirdog (talk) 04:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
