Does English Wikipedia attack?

    Greetings to all again!

    I didn’t plan to write a post on Habr until new information appeared on the development of qutIM (by the way, we moved to gitorious.org , I hope now the development will be more open, and it will be easier to help third-party developers). But in this situation, I need the help of the community. Circumstances in the English part of Wikipedia forced me to pick up a pen. Let's start with the background ...


    It all started a week ago when an article qutIM'a administrators and incomprehensible to me Zorro with Miami33139 nickname suddenly removedfor a completely inadequate reason: "the name means something in some Latin / Arabic language, the software product is insignificant." Until now, I thought that Wikipedia is a public encyclopedia that is done by the people for the people , but it seems like I, like many, was mistaken.

    A week had to convince the GedUk Wikipedia administrator that he had done something not entirely logical. Moreover, he was not convinced even by links to nokia.com and Qt-Apps.org with a clear explanation of the reasons for their objectivity. When all the same he managed to convince him, he restored the article to its former volume, but placed it for deletion , explaining this by the need to check the links by the community.

    Well, put it, put it in that way, I was already sure that we would “take a break”, because we found more than a dozen convincing sources confirming the significance of the program: the number of downloads of the program on the first day after release, links to people's blogs, articles on qutIM. He pointed out that Nokia ported the application to Symbian, and that qutIM is the leader by Qt-Apps.org rating, but this does not convince them, administrators, for all of this, for one reason or another, they are unauthorized sources of information about the significance of the product. Here the fun began, crawling on the links, stumbled upon a vote about removing QIP , but as insignificantprograms. If this were limited to, it could be decided that this is another round of the war against unofficial ICQ clients (it’s no secret that the majority of QIP and qutIM users are ICQ users), but events unfolded ... Soon they went for deletion :

    All customers have the same “not-notable software” reason and absolutely all community-led sources were denied with the words “not reliable source”.

    The following are also at stake:

    because the same messages appeared on their pages about the need to find links to sources that Gajim had previously.

    I can’t imagine how to deal with such aggression against IM clients. As a qutIM developer, I personally touched this problem, therefore I turn to the Habr community for help. It is necessary to support customers on Wikipedia, find ways to make this incomprehensible attack crash. If there are other ways to deal with this problem, suggest in the comments, we will try.

    Upd. Article still deleted

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