Talk:XOOPS

message: Nothing about the history of the system... anyone out there know anything about it?--sin-man 06:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History?

message: I wanted to look up what XOOPS did, it's history, it's difference with other CMS's... didn't say much... So I'm requesting for an expansion
--sin-man 04:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: Wow, there is a lot of hyperbole in this article! I don't have time right this moment, but it needs a thorough going-over to sound a bit more objective. Michael Geary 06:37, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I found that  this edit seemingly came from this page of the official website. Mulukhiyya 18:44, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyperbole

message: As someone who's come across this article for the first time, there're a few problems in the way everything has been handled. Of course the article read as a puff piece at the beginning, but the most recent anonymous edit (I presume by Selmo) reverting had problems. First, it did not say where it reverted to, so it makes life difficult for anyone trying to contribute. When reverting, please state exactly where to. Secondly, it did not state why besides saying the changes were 'propaganda'. In my opinion, as someone who's never used the software and has no interest in it, and is reading this for the first time, the latest version before being reverted for propaganda reasons actually read as more neutral than the version anonymous/Selmo chose to revert to. For example, "Xoops supports multi-byte languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc" is more useful and reads as less blatant than "XOOPS was created and is maintained by a team of several volunteers working from all over the world." The phrase "all over the world" is marketing-speak. A list of multi-byte languages supported is at least factual.
Finally, almost none of the contributors to the talk page have signed their comments properly. This makes it more difficult to follow the comments, as we cannot see when or sometimes even who made the comment. Please add four tildes after your comment.
The changes made by the XOOPS team seem innocuous enough to me. They've openly stated who they are, and reading through them as a neutral none of the changes are too jarring. So, before blanket reversal, it would help to address which of their changes you think are 'propaganda', no matter how many mistakes you feel the XOOPS team have made in contributing to this article in the past. Addressing the issues individually instead of engaging in an edit war would help improve the article, as well as facilitate a more constructive approach by everyone involved. Greenman 21:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to see a mention of how XOOPS has forked over the past few years, what it has forked into, and how those forks are different. There are at least two major forks, eXoops/RunCMS/RUNetCMS and XoopsCube, and there are at least three or four other minor forks. At the very least, I think the major forks should be described in this article. -- -- BBlackmoor (talk) 15:10, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving this article 

message: Some people are removing the latest XOOPS fork "ImpressCMS" from this article. As this fork is founded by former XOOPS board members, I would say that it is at least as relevant as any other fork. In addition, people removing ImpressCMS in this article are involved in a conflict between former XOOPS board members and the current XOOPS board members. Please do not fight such conflicts on wikipedia. Klungel (talk) 21:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of ImpressCMS Fork

message: "Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort."
That doesn't quite follow, does it? Just because the license is GPL doesn't mean it is dependant on the contributions of a worldwide community.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whiskyhead (talk • contribs) 00:22, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community