[scribus] Scribus Wiki: Last Call for "Success Stories" for 2008

[Maciej Hanski]

Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi Maciej
> 
> I will add an entry to your wiki re Success stories with Scribus, as our
> company does all of its Datasheets and Brochures, in fact anything
> printed, with Scribus. There's about 5 of us with it installed here.

I've seen your stuff on the Wiki, cool. I'm going to add a nice
screenshot of your company profile, hope, you don't mind.


> But sorry to sound mean, but is there anyway that if I add a link on
> your wiki to an example PDF created in Scribus on our website, that I
> can at least use it as a link with good incoming Google Page Rank ? I
> see that the links already on the wiki are of the 'nofollow' type which
> means that linking to my PDF's from your site won't help me with my SEO
> (Search Engine Optimisation) work. e.g. From John Beardmore's entry
> 
> <a href="http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/" class="external free" title="http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/</a>

Well, this controversy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow is well
beyond the scope of this list (I guess) and my scope of interest (I'm
sure). Scribus Wiki uses Mediawiki as-is, with all its pros and cons.
But if you'd like to convince a Scribus Wiki admin to change this
default behaviour, I'd suggest submitting a feature request to
bugs.scribus.net.

> I'm really sorry to sound ungrateful, but you may find that others add
> their links more willingly with just a little treat (ie getting a nice
> PR5 link inbound) in return ;-)

No objection taken, but I think, those who may want to write a success
story have already been given so many treats by the Scribus team and
this community (free software, free documentation, free advice), that
they don't need any additional incentive to give a little in return.

I'm glad you did:)

> We've been using Scribus for about three years now in our company, and
> appreciate the power we can gain as a small business from it, without
> paying out lots of money for InDesign etc.
> 
> I've been using it since version 0.5 at home !!!

Wow. This is like speaking to a Cro-Magnon man:) Those were the days.

cheers
Maciej