[Numpy-discussion] Numpy PR

[Paul Dubois]

I killed pfdubois/numpy.

On 23 May 2006 07:18:32 -0700, joris at ster.kuleuven.ac.be <
joris at ster.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was thinking about our PR for numpy. Imo, the best page that we can
> currently show to newcomers is www.scipy.org. There they find out what is
> Numpy, where you can download it, documentation, cookbook recipes,
> examples,
> libraries that build on NumPy like SciPy, etc. In addition, it's the page
> that, imho, looks the most professional.
>
>
> Googling for "numpy" gives:
>
> 1) numeric.scipy.org/
>
> Travis' webpage on Numpy. Travis, would you consider putting a much more
> pronounced link to scipy.org? The current link to is at the very bottom of
> the page and has no further comments...
>
> 2) www.numpy.org/
>
> One is redirected to the sourceforge site. Question: why not to the
> scipy.org
> site? The reason why no wiki page is set up here is, I guess, because
> there
> is already one at scipy.org. So why not directly linking to it?
>
>
> 3) www.pfdubois.com/numpy/
>
> This site is actually closed. It only contains a short paragraph pointing
> to
> the page http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy.
>
>
> 4) www.pfdubois.com/numpy/html2/numpy.html
>
> This is a potentially very confusing web page. It constantly talks about
> 'Numpy' but is actually refering to the obsolete 'Numeric'. Perhaps this
> page
> could be taken down?
>
>
> 5) sourceforge.net/projects/numpy
>
> The download site for NumPy. This page doesn't contain a link to scipy.org
> .
>
>
> 6) www.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientificnumpy.html
>
> Informationless webpage.
>
>
> 7) wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific
>
> Up-to-date webpage, but refers to numeric.scipy.org for NumPy.
>
>
> 8) www.scipy.org/
>
> And YES, finally... :o)
>
>
> Perhaps we could try to take scipy.org a bit higher in the Google ranking?
> I am not a HTML expert at all, but may a header in the www.scipy.orgsource
> code like
>
> <meta name="keywords" content="numpy scipy">
>
> help?
>
> Cheers,
> Joris
>
>
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