Wikipedia:OpenFacts

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The BerliOS OpenFacts Project is a free knowledge database for the collaborative creation of software documentation. Its founders were inspired by the Wikipedia project's approach to collaborative writing of encyclopedia articles. They chose to apply this approach the writing of software documentation. To that purpose, OpenFacts allows all open source projects to maintain their documentation collaboratively online. In addition, OpenFacts pages can also be used for feature suggestions or problem reports for other projects. All material written specifically for OpenFacts is released into the public domain unless otherwise noted.

One of its useful features is the Wikipedia Status page [1] which allows people to monitor (and of course, change) the perceived server status of Wikipedia. On the status page, Wikipedia's server status is measured in terms of speed and availability. In addition, comments are posted by most people that change the status. Some of these also provide reasons for the status, when they are known. However, following the adoption of multilingual error pages on Wikipedia, the link to Wikipedia Status was removed. [2] An alternative offline contingency site was proposed [3] but there has been no action yet.