[jdev] Wikipedia deletions

[Geof]

Good points and discussion.  In this case a center critical mass will
probably prove more productive them dispersed bits of information.  And it
is difficult to "reason" with Wiki when they have their minds made up on
something.

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>wrote:

> 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.
>
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