From my understanding of the wikipedia deletion policy draft (it is a draft not a real policy yet),

"Software applications are products, and fall under Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations). This page gives rough guidelines which Wikipedia editors use to decide if certain software applications should have an article on Wikipedia."

Frankly speaking, even I myself don't think Kwiki is a product..^^

However, SocialText is company, which implies SocialText wiki is a product. In fact, all the pages of wikisystems developed by commercial companies are kept on wikipedia, but other (open source/ free) wikisystems are not so lucky. Kwiki is not the only one.

Cheers
Whiteg
On Feb 1, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Alberto Simões wrote:

Hi

As #kwiki users know, the entry on Wikipedia about Kwiki was deleted
because it doesn't have reliable sources and because "Kwiki is not
notable".

In the other hand, SocialText entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Socialtext
does not have reliable sources as well, and is not notable as well (it
doesn't refer any document relating to Socialtext notability).

But SocialText entry was not deleted. I found out why:

Socialtext [...] It also donated US$2,000 in the Wikimedia Fundraiser 2005 Q4.


So, you can BUY your entry on wikipedia :-(

Cheers
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Alberto Simões

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