MolassesLover
pixelfedOur Wikipedia page is at risk of being deleted because it may not meet notability guidelines.
Can we get some help?
We're not that familiar with Wikipedia or its processes, but we think our project is notable enough for inclusion.
Semitones@pixelfed I can perhaps help. Do you have any links to reputable news articles that have independently written about you? (No interviews)
Harald now @ treehouse.systems
Benedikt Ehinger@semitones @oliof @pixelfed
Heise.de is IMHO the most reputable IT website/magazine in Germany. Goes back 25 years or so.
@semitones Thank you, and yes there are many!
https://www.google.com/search?q=pixelfed&tbm=nws&source=lnms
@pixelfed it would help to get individual links but I will search for some myself
Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️
Jason Parker (he/they)@pixelfed The notability tag has to be removed manually -- it won't ever get removed automatically. I have no clue whether it'll be reverted, but that many independent and reliable references whose subject is not Pixelfed, clearly shows its notability, so I removed it.
Christof Damian 💙💛It looks like in the change that added the tag, there was also a link for better citation
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1131015203&oldid=1127222219&title=Pixelfed
This was fixed later, without removing the tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1131015203&oldid=1127222219&title=Pixelfed
Condalmo.@pixelfed I'd like to help if it's needed
Alix Guillard@pixelfed it looks like the banner is gone now. That was quick.
Strypey@aloxe
> it looks like the banner is gone now. That was quick
That was @north;
https://xn--8r9a.com/@north/112201817593423122
This doesn't solve the problem and is liable to escalate the situation. Wikipedia editing is primarily a social process, so technical fixes - like just removing a tag you disagree with - don't usually work in the long run. It's more effective to engage with the volunteer who added the tag about their concerns, than to risk starting an edit war by arbitrarily removing it.
Jason Parker (he/they) (@north@ꩰ.com)
@[email protected] The notability tag has to be removed manually -- it won't ever get removed automatically. I have no clue whether it'll be reverted, but that many independent and reliable references whose subject is not Pixelfed, clearly shows its notability, so I removed it.
@north
> the reason the tag was added had long since been resolved
In the last 9 hours since this was posted?
@north @strypey oups yes didn't see that. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pixelfed&diff=prev&oldid=1131015203 that wasn't that quick ;-)
Charadon@pixelfed Basically, you'll need to show some mainstream news articles about your project to the admins/whoever maintains the article. I'm not super involved in the wikipedia project, but as far as I know, that's a big part of it.
neko@pixelfed Looking at the talk page it looks like people are trying to establish notability right now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pixelfed
Just a reminder that contributors to your project should not be editing your Wikipedia page
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@pixelfed a few articles I wrote for OKO.press, mentioning Pixelfed:
https://oko.press/witajcie-w-wolnym-swiecie-fediverse
https://oko.press/facebook-cenzura-konfederacja
OKO.press is relatively mainstream in Poland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKO.press
Media społecznościowe bez kontroli Big Tech? Witajcie w wolnym świecie Fediverse
Termin "media społecznościowe" w odniesieniu do wielkich platform jest nadużyciem. Nastawione są na zysk, a zysk generowany jest przez reklamodawców, których interesy często nie pokrywają się z interesami społeczności. Czy jest alternatywa? Jest, nazywa się Fediverse
@pixelfed also, a piece I wrote for the Panoptykon foundation, mentioning Pixelfed:
https://panoptykon.org/przewodnik-fedi#czym-jest-fediwers
Panoptykon's Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoptykon_Foundation
Jer-Bear 
@pixelfed Good news, the “notability” banner was removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pixelfed&diff=1216868029&oldid=1213350658
Dirk Blank 
🇩🇪Perhaps you can collect some information from here.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_are_Fediverse_projects%3F
The lemma (articles) about #fediverse in #wikipedia is very poor in all languages.
Users of #mastodon , #friendica , #hubzilla , #pixelfed and others should write articles in #wikipedia to advertise #fediverse.
Basic internet users do not know the fediverse!
Try to find a wikipedia mentor for support.
Will open a german language version in wikipedia in the next few days.
@pixelfed
@caos @jupiter_rowland @chris @Lokal_K @Doris
The articel # Pixelfed is just issued in german language in german #wikipedia. The articel #hubzilla will follow in a few days.
As #wikipedia is an open system, like #fediverse, feel free to correct the articel and/or translate in other languages. Try to write not nerdy. As mentioned basic internet users will go first step to Wikipedia for information about the #fediverse
Have a nice #weekend!
wfk@pixelfed
Another thing to consider is that the page currently looks a bit too much like a promotion blurb by the owners of the project. Try to find an independent person to edit it to sound more neutral.
Another thing to consider is that the page currently looks a bit too much like a promotion blurb by the owners of the project. Try to find an independent person to edit it to sound more neutral.
Hobson Lane
Maho 🦝🍻
eatyourglory@pixelfed This is strange: I don’t see the notability guidelines tag on the page…
BenAveling@eatyourglory The tag has been removed now. I doubt anyone will restore it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pixelfed&action=history
@eatyourglory @pixelfed I suspect it was an older tag -- someone reading the initial post removed it after checking that there were many sources establishing notability
julian@[email protected] @[email protected] asking for help to counter this offends Wikipedia editors, who will treat it as brigading and respond as appropriate.
Ask me how I know, and realize why NodeBB does not have an article on Wikipedia.
dansup (@[email protected])
375 Posts, 213 Following, 73.2K Followers · Hi, I'm the developer behind @Pixelfed!#pixelfed #photography #nature #dogs #fedi22
Ralf Hüls 📸
draeath@pixelfed for those asking what "notability" means here, hopefully this helps if you scroll far enough to reach this reply. I'll be your personal search engine today.
Tim Chambers
Xerø@pixelfed this is not cool.
Jared Zimmerman ✨@pixelfed it’s not notable by English Wikipedia standards. You need more sources that aren’t blogs, self-published, and PR related. They don’t appear to exist, yet.
Shoq 🌿@pixelfed That’s absurd. It’s more than notable enough. They are typically more specific about what the article needs. Sounds like someone doesn’t like Pixelfed. Have you pursued all the standard dispute protocols already?
@pixelfed
> Our Wikipedia page is at risk of being deleted because it may not meet notability guidelines
F*%king deletionists. We had the same problem with the fediverse article when it was created. I once had to recreate the article for Tara Hernandez after it was deleted;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ATara_Hernandez#new_bio_page_created
What we need is links to publications with an editor (ie not blogs, forum threads etc), which are about PixelFed, not just mentioning it in passing.
Can anyone help?
مصطفی آهنگرها 🇵🇸🇮🇷@pixelfed
The best thing is to collect a list of references to PixelFed.
Update: I checked the page and noticed there are many good references. But for sure we need more mainstream media to talk about PixelFed. Books or Academic papers would be great.
I don't know what is the basis for removing the page. Please share where it is discussed.