Talk:GNU FriBidi

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I think GNU FriBidi is worth having a page in wp at least because it is part of the GNU project. Note that various other GNU subprojects have their own pages at wp without much, if any, other reason. Try following some links from; for example: GNU_Ferret, GNU_Oleo, GNU_Enterprise, and Libiberty. Thanks. —behdad (talk) 08:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Those are far more notable than a bidirectional text routine --Steve _(Slf67) ^talk 08:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't you be more specific about why you think those are 'far more notable'? Notability is not subjective. From your 'a bidirectional text routine' I guess you are judging GNU FriBidi from its new wp page, instead of researching it outside wp. I decided to not fill in the wp page, because I am the maintainer of FriBidi since 2001, but I elaborate here why I think GNU FriBidi is notable: First, a little comparison to other GNU projects above that you claimed are far notable: Google search on 'FriBidi' yields more than 1,000,000 results. The number for 'GNU Ferret' is 460,000. And for 'libiberty' just 400,000. Next, GNU FriBidi is a key part of supporting Arabic and Hebrew scripts in some undoubtedly notable pieces of software, including: Pango and hence the entire GNOME stack, AbiWord, and mplayer, to name a few. It has been used in embedded devices such as Nokia 9110 Hebrew edition. And it's part of a notable project, ie. GNU. And the PHP language officially supports GNU FriBidi (see List_of_PHP_libraries). GNU FriBidi is included in virtually all major Linux-baesd operating systems, including Debian, Fedora Core, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and also FreeBSD, Cygwin, and others, and distribution maintainers for those are all independent from GNU FriBidi. See Wikipedia:Notability (software). —behdad (talk) 09:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)