Wikipedia:Peer review/OpenOffice.org/archive1

OpenOffice.org

This peer review discussion has been closed.

This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because I want to take it to GA or FA. I've worked quite hard on it over the last several months, reviewing sources from the past ten years in several languages. The content should be clear and is referenced to the hilt. But is there anything that seems missing to a fresh reader? - David Gerard (talk) 10:39, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Comments by APerson

• As it stands, I like the article a lot and it has a lot of good references.
• The lead answers all the questions I would have about it (what is it? who made it? etc.)
• In the lead, the paragraphs containing more "pertinent" information, such as the well-known successors and the authors of the project, could be moved above those containing information that might not be as interesting to the reader who is just skimming, like what file types it was supposed to read.
• The fact that it was supposed to supplant Microsoft Office could be given greater weight (and maybe even another reference).
• The opening sections (History and Features) nicely describe the important properties of OpenOffice.org.
• The "Discontinued" section might be summarized a bit more.

APerson (talk!) 01:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

That was enormously helpful, thank you so much! I've reorganised the intro - the first para now tells the casual reader all that stuff by itself. I also merged all the minor discontinued forks into the big list (with some refs for further reading where warranted), leaving only the ones warranting separate articles in the section - David Gerard (talk) 10:53, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

And I'm now looking for more sources on an intention to compete with MS Office (though it's really obvious it totally did) - David Gerard (talk) 18:18, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

The 1.0 announcement, an official Sun press release, also talks up its power to compete with MSO. I've also found a zillion contemporary (within a coupla years) documents on openoffice.org about how to migrate, should anyone question Sun's intent further - David Gerard (talk) 11:08, 1 October 2013 (UTC)