Grasshopper on Wikipedia

Hi everyone,

What is Grasshopper?

A quite simple Question, but very difficult to answer. I tried to define it, but whatever I came up with, did not reflect the real power and greatness of this fabulous tool.

So today I opened a grasshopper 3d article at wikipedia with a minimal definition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3d

and would like to invite you all to help define this peace of software.

-Cheers

Karl

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Karl Wecker on February 1, 2011 at 12:06am

Hi Luis,

I added Jeffs references to the article.

Great job you did on that page!

When do you think it will be ready for "official" release? What is missing, if any for that?

-Martin

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 7, 2011 at 3:51pm

Karl I did not do anything to the page besides add some of the references. It was others that added all of the content. I just followed up on the deletion, etc...can others change the content on my user page?

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 7, 2011 at 4:20pm

Luis -

Can you combine your user page with the Grasshopper page that is online?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grasshopper_3d&oldid=...

I think between the two pages we will be ready to remove the delete tag off the page. Should this be so difficult?

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 7, 2011 at 5:05pm

Its not my page Scott, its the page which was originally there and got deleted. There was already a GH page on wikipedia and this user deleted it. I asked him to restore it, and he decided to put it on my user page. I recommend to not having the article 'live' until it meets the requirements.

I also did not think it would be so difficult, but the rules are clear, and make sense for the most part. If we have to dig up references, things should wait. I am confident there is more than enough out to make the case very clear. Putting it together, making it tidy, etc can take it even beyond the stub status that Rhino3d currently has.

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 7, 2011 at 5:12pm

Is there anything I can do to have it meet requirements?

The article that compares Grasshopper to other generative software is good, since the other software mensioned have wikipedia pages. We also could add links to books and tutorials if that is helpful.

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on February 7, 2011 at 5:17pm

I think the thing which would make the most difference would be how built examples and projects have benefited from using the tool. This would make it notable not just in a small circle of specialized applications, but it would imply the general public who use the buildings / projects.

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 7, 2011 at 5:45pm

This is the best I have right now:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/architecture-projects

I am sure members here have many more examples.

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 9, 2011 at 4:40pm

Luis

I updated the Grasshopper page with more references. I hope it helps. Once we get "notable" status, then we can get the page looking better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3d

Feel free to merge the pages together.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on February 9, 2011 at 5:58pm

Nice work!

Permalink Reply by Nick Tyrer on February 7, 2011 at 9:18am

looks like its going to be deleted again. deadline is feb 14th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3d

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 7, 2011 at 9:57am

Looks like a Wikipedia article will be a challenge.

Here are the notes on Notability for software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(software)

Notability really needs to come from everyone on this community. Also, you may want to look at other technical products that have established notability. There is a good articles on Processing that may serve as an example.

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on February 7, 2011 at 10:21am

Seems to me if we establish that Grasshopper is written about in the press:

http://aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id...

Does anynone know other articles?

Establish that it is being taught at schools: USC, Cornell, Columbia etc...

http://woojsung.com/2009/09/09/grasshopper-workshop-at-cornell-arch...

Can anyone add to the list of schools that are teaching it?

And talk about notable projects it has been used on, that should be enough to keep the article from being deleted.