[jdev] Wikipedia deletions

Someone at Wikipedia is actively working to delete entries about various software projects that supposedly fail Wikipedia's "notability" test. Pages about some XMPP software projects have already been deleted (e.g., Coccinella) and it seems that others will be deleted in the near future (e.g., Exodus, Gajim, ejabberd). Yesterday I reviewed the some of the discussions about these pages, and in my opinion the "deletionists" are not very open to reasoned argument. While we could spend a lot of time trying to fight these deletions, I think it would be more productive to move these pages over to wiki.xmpp.org and make that the most accurate source for information about XMPP technologies (along with the regular xmpp.org site). Naturally, you are free to spend time and energy on Wikipedia, but I think the site is a lost cause, so I am going to spend my time and energy on a wiki where our work won't be deleted because someone has some misguided ideas about "notability". If you'd like to help build out wiki.xmpp.org, feel free to ask one of the sysops there for an account. Typically the sysops hang out in the jdev at conference.jabber.org chatroom. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 6820 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/attachments/20091221/187c49c9/attachment.bin>