I saw the Wikipedia entry for colorful tabs a few years ago. But yesterday I tried to look it up and saw the article was gone. ColorfulTabs has been the inspiration behind Chromatabs. While other addons like Chromatabs, Tab Mix Plus, Firefox Showcase and more have a Wikipedia entry, I only find it unfortunate that Wikipedia decided to trash the article on ColorfulTabs.
The Wikipedia guidelines, policies and rules are comphrensive and the reason for deletion was cites as No claim of notability, no external sources. Strange that other addons have a Wikipedia entry whereas ColorfulTabs doesn’t. For those unfamiliar:
- Chromatabs was inspired from the idea behind ColorfulTabs. Here the external and independent source (Leveraging Human Perception for Happier Tabbing)?
- ColorfulTabs was featured on television on BBC World (BBC Click archives).
- ColorfulTabs has been distributed and featured in the German magazine CHIP (edition 05/2009 and 09/2007) for it’s utility which has circulation of over 406,000 copies per month and over 1.63 million readers per issue.
- ColorfulTabs has been distrubuted with the German PC magazine “PC-WELT”.
- Circulated with COMPUTERBILD February 2005 – Europes biggest magazine.
- ColorfulTabs was amongst the top 50 most downloaded addons on the release of Firefox 3.
I’m wondering if Wikipedia is on an clean-up mission for articles relating to Firefox addons. But if that were so, other addons wouldn’t have a Wikipedia entry there. Are the admins there overlooking something or is it just plain useless to have a Wikipedia entry for ColorfulTabs? What do you think?
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Maybe it’s just a cleanup, many add-ons entries have some kind of alert in the last 6 months or less.
I know that ColorfulTabs only brings a more personal style into the browser, so, in that way, not all add-ons must exists in Wikipedia. But yes Greasemonkey (i think).
In another way… what is the sense of “PDF Download” add-on? Using the Foxit Reader software (free version, not necessarily pro) you can open PDFs inside the browser and then save, or you can right-click and “save to…”. Or forecastfox?
Firefox Showcase and TabMixPlus are in the same situation as ColorfulTabs was/is.
Maybe, all that information would be better in Firefox Wiki.
check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mozilla_extensions for a list of Mozilla add-ons in Wikipedia
PS: I can’t live, nowadays, without color (fulTabs)…
Its really crazy. There is still a lot of junk out there on wiki but still admins manage to get their hands dirty on useful stuff. Atleast they must provide valid reasons for removal
me too agree with raju that they must give proper reason for it
This is a classic example of why I have migrated some of the Wikipedia articles that I created, over to Google knols. I can’t be bothered any more with spending time and creative effort building and maintaining these articles, only to have it all wasted by ad hoc and often ignorant changes (editing or removal) and destructive graffiti.
The Wikipedia administrators and their constipated copyright system are also a major source of frustration to me. I’m off to Google knol, where things stay like I built them, and I’m not coming back.