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Attention: Somebody has nominated Foswiki`s Wikipedia entry for deletion. To establish notability, significant coverage in reliable, independent sources is required (see the Wikipedia guideline on notability for more details). If you are able to provide references that help satisfy the notability criterion, please put them forth in the Wikipedia:Foswiki entry and in the discussion for deletion.

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• We need a page on Foswiki in Wikipedia.

Related Pages

• PlannedMarketingActivities
• Wiki Application - this page has been flagged for deletion. MichaelCorbett removed this tag but we need to improve this article so that it won't be flagged up for deletion again.
• Task: We definitely need to improve our wikipedia-presence with new articles (120min)

WikipediaArticleBackup (in case it gets nuked and someone wants to refer to it at a future date) -- DrewStevenson - 05 Feb 2009

Other avenues to establishing a page

• Create an entry for the Foswiki association, with links to a restored foswiki article. Companies and Organizations are a sub-category of Notability requirements.
  • See Non-commercial Organization notability
    1. The scope of their activities is national or international in scale.
    2. Information about the organization and its activities can be verified by third-party, independent, reliable sources. (In other words, they must satisfy the primary criterion for all organizations as described above.)
    • So obviously an external link to public verifiable articles of association. Is there a German public database to reference? Not sure the Scribd copy is sufficient.
  • Link the foswiki article to one of several project portals, in particular the FOSS project portal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software
    • The community page for that project portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPOPEN
    • For example note the entries for Twiki, Mindtouch, and many other wikis in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_content_management_systems
    • Mindtouch is also under Groupware, as an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_groupware
  • Other needed link categories
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_software
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2009_software
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_programmed_in_Perl (as TWiki is currently)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_software

Useful links on Wikipedia

• Discussion about deleting Foswiki on Wikipedia
• Wikipedian Notability
• Contact Wikipedia
• Article problems about delete or undelete
• Deletion policy
• Undeletion policy
• Wikipedia deletion reviews
• Request for undeletion
• Wikipedia Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Sources ( likely to pass notability)

• Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in '09 (Computerworld)
• TWiki's hunt for cash fractures its community (CNET)
• LinuxLinks: Foswiki
• ohloh: Foswiki
• Atlassian, the world's leading commercial wiki creator on their confluence page called Foswiki the leading open source alternative.
• TechCrunch? , the leading tech weblog included Foswiki in a list of Wikis: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/26/why-google-wave-sucks/ & http://screencast.com/t/ZDkxNzc3Zj
• Open Source Rookies of the Year 2009 – Behind the Numbers
• Black Duck honors best of 19,000 new open source projects (ZDNET)
• Cebit Open Source 2010 - Projektpräsentation Perl

Miscellaneous

• 576,000 Google hits for "Foswiki" vs 311,000 for the old project
  • I question these numbers. I only get 130,000. To eliminate more noise, add "wiki": foswiki wiki: 78,200; twiki wiki 608,000 -- ArthurClemens - 28 Nov 2009
  • I suppose you're right. -- PaulHarvey - 29 Nov 2009
  • Also double checked and agree with Arthur. -- IngoKappler - 29 Nov 2009
  • Six months after, Twiki has 1,300,000 hits, and Foswiki only 123,000 -- ChristopheVermeulen - 04 May 2010
• http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/886-practical-differences-between-foswiki-and-twiki/
• Development of Foswiki and TWiki - get the facts (Part 1) - http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry36?cat=WikiRing
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/Foswiki
• http://fossfor.us/software/name/Foswiki