JamWiki Needs More Exposure
Moved from the Feedback page:
A lot of competing wiki software that isn't as mature as jamwiki is listed on wikipedia's comparison of wiki softare page found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software
If anyone has the time/patience to update wikipedia, it could only help jamwiki thrive.
- I'd be grateful for anything anyone can do to help promote JAMWiki. My only concern would be ensuring that any promotion doesn't diverge into advertising/spamming - Wikipedia has a Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Notability requirement, but if JAMWiki meets that requirement then by all means please add it in Wikipedia. In addition, if there are any other sites out there that JAMWiki should be listed on please submit it - I've put JAMWiki on http://wikimatrix.org/, http://freshmeat.net/ and on http://java-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines, but any others would be great. -- Ryan 06-Jun-2007 11:03 PDT
JamWiki was removed from Wikipedia's "List of Wiki Software"
I was just going through Wikipedia's List of Wiki Software and noticed that JamWiki wasn't on there. (Although it IS listed on the Comparison of Wiki Software).
It seems that, on the November 8th edit, someone purged all external links, leaving JamWiki only a link to a Wiki Edit page. Then, on November 10th, all red links were removed; hence, Jamwiki was eliminated. So, what someone needs to do is make a Wikipedia page for Jamwiki, and then get Jamwiki relisted, otherwise it'll just be purged again. --Ean 04-Jan-2008 11:33 PST
- Thanks for pointing this out. Wikipedia has requirements for software "notability", and guidelines against project members creating or editing articles about their projects. Neither of these guidelines seem to be adhered to in any consistent manner, but as a result I've been hesitant to put too much about JAMWiki in Wikipedia... if someone who is a more frequent Wikipedia contributor wants to start a JAMWiki article I'd be glad to help out, but I've tried to be careful not to run afoul of the Wikipedia establishment. -- Ryan 04-Jan-2008 22:17 PST
- Good call -- it really doesn't take much to get blacklisted over there. I'll do a little research on their notability guidelines and see if I can't get JamWiki re-listed. --Ean 07-Jan-2008 09:51 PST
- Thanks! At one point there was a requirement that software had to be included in a major distribution (or something like that) before it got its own article, although there is a LOT of software in Wikipedia that doesn't meet that criteria. In any case, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help out that doesn't run afoul of Jimmy Wales & Friends. -- Ryan 07-Jan-2008 11:33 PST
- It looks like someone beat me to the punch. Hey, less work for me! Thanks to wikipedia user "Khartlage", whoever you are. --Ean 08-Jan-2008 09:14 PST
- Thanks! At one point there was a requirement that software had to be included in a major distribution (or something like that) before it got its own article, although there is a LOT of software in Wikipedia that doesn't meet that criteria. In any case, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help out that doesn't run afoul of Jimmy Wales & Friends. -- Ryan 07-Jan-2008 11:33 PST
- Good call -- it really doesn't take much to get blacklisted over there. I'll do a little research on their notability guidelines and see if I can't get JamWiki re-listed. --Ean 07-Jan-2008 09:51 PST
- (Re-indenting for readability) That's very cool that the project finally landed in Wikipedia. Provided the cleanup crew doesn't delete it, and provide no one beats me to it, I'll try and add a bit more after another week or two. Thanks for following up on this! -- Ryan 08-Jan-2008 12:41 PST