User talk:Kalyxo~enwiki

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Foswiki

Hello. I wanted to let you know that I reverted your edits to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foswiki because the discussion has already been closed. I've also tagged Talk:Foswiki for speedy deletion since there is no article to correspond with it. I just wanted to explain why I did that. I see that you've already asked Deskana for advice who can give much better advice than I can, but I'll just say for a website to be included in Wikipedia, it would have to meet the criteria located at WP:WEBSITE. Cheers! Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For recreation of Foswiki article Some links to support the notability of Foswiki:
- TechCrunch, the leading and most widely read (4 million rss feed subscribers) 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
- Atlassian, the world's leading commercial wiki creator on their confluence page called Foswiki the leading open source alternative: http://screencast.com/t/OTE1M2E5YTQ
- Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in '09 (Computerworld): http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2009/03/31/highly-anticipated-open-source-releases-coming-09
- TWiki's hunt for cash fractures its community (CNET): http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10078682-16.html --Kalyxo (talk) 07:22, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You guys make it hard to help you

But thanks for steering things in a more constructive direction. Please see the comment I left at User talk:Wwwolf3#Alternatives to undeletion. Hans Adler 12:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please no redirects

If I understand you correctly, you suggest, that a redirect from Foswiki to TWiki should be installed. That would be the opposite, of what all people who stand behind Foswiki would want. I am confident, they would rather remain with no article, than with a redirect to TWiki. This is in no way, what represents the project, that wants to be independent from TWiki. Did you know, that about 20 developers went through thousands of lines of code to erase every single mention of TWiki and rename it to Foswiki, because they wanted to avoid trademark issues with Peter Thoeny, who claims to own the TWiki trademark? Please do not install a redirect. --Kalyxo (talk) 20:38, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It needn't be a redirect from TWiki to Foswiki. E.g. the existing article TWiki could be renamed to TWiki and Foswiki. Even if you don't like it, it's in many ways the most efficient arrangement. There isn't much you can say about TWiki that doesn't apply to Foswiki as well, and vice versa. If we cover both in a single article it's the best guarantee that our information is neutral. Otherwise the two articles would mostly be edited by the respective developers (or users) and would tend to contradict each other. Wikipedia has processes for eventually obtaining a relatively objective compromise version in such a case, but the processes don't work if the opposing parties manage to avoid each other.

If the deletion review had started with your post I think there would have been a reasonable chance of success. But it's still a borderline case. (Wikipedia has a bias for sources that are easily accessible online, but against blogs and other "alternative" sources.) And Wwwolf3 has taken great pains to make sure that any margin of discretion is used against the Foswiki article. If you know that user you should consider contacting them so that they can strike their initial comment (using <s></s>) and apologise. This might help.

If it fails you will have to wait at least half a year and until there is additional coverage. Preferably in mainstream sources such as computer magazines that also have a print version. If there is an article only in the print version then that's also fine. It should be very easy to get a full sized article into certain specialised magazines such as de:freeX. (The publisher already has a book on TWiki. I think they are very open to article submissions from the readership, but if an article was written by a project member that might become an issue here.) The best thing would of course be if you could convince the author of an existing TWiki book and their publisher to create a new edition specifically about Foswiki or about both wikis. Hans Adler 22:51, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Kalyxo. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kalyxo~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

01:03, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

14:46, 22 April 2015 (UTC)