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notability[edit]

Thingiverse is a technological community that represents creators from around the world. The shared focus of Thingiverse is to spread user-created design files that can be reproduced with physical CNC tools. It is not currently oriented towards financial gain, only to providing an outlet for open-source licensed design files that users may freely access and iterate. Thingiverse is in use by many professional and amateur designers and many technical interest groups are represented. It is a significant and growing resource to the public, and is a central hub for the world of 3D Printing and Lasercutting.

Hello UncleIze, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. For a website to have an article on Wikipedia, it must meet certain conditions of Wikipedia:Notability_(web). In short, a page must be "the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself. This criterion includes reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations[4] except for the following. This website does not appear to meet that criteria. Sheeana ^Talk 06:39, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would disagree. Thingiverse has been in existence for a while and the subject of numerous verifiable articles and websites. ( http://www.google.com/search?q=thingiverse&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sc lient=psy&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&q=thingiverse+-thingiverse.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=3abe5adf4192a0aa ) Thingiverse has been the subject of numerous print magazines as well, including, most notably, Wired. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakerBot#cite_note-wired-3 ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.85.243.100 (talk) 06:49, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Pax: I have added two citations to articles relating to Thingiverse. Thingiverse is a significant part of the maker community represented in publications like Make Magazine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.52.254.158 (talk) 12:52, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone who is exposed to digital fabrication in the world of do-it-yourself (DIY) cultures knows about thingiverse. It is the most well-known repository of digital open source hardware. However, this culture, though significant in both its scale and influence, is its own world. Only occasionally does it get attention from major media outlets. For one, if fab labs and hackerspaces and the "maker movement" in general are significant enough to have their articles, then thingiverse should, because it is the most central repository for makerbot designs. I see that Ponoko does not have its own article yet either, though it made a considerable splash in the mainstream media. I am starting that article now :)

With what I know, here are some good resources to begin:

An introductory video by the Wall Street Journal: [1]
And this front-cover article in Inc Magazine about Ponoko (which is basically the same thing as thingiverse, not open-source) [2]

NittyG (talk) 16:53, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Open vs Close source / legal ownership controversy?[edit]

Shouldn't there be some note here of the current issues with who owns the files / things published on the site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.176.56.189 (talk) 19:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]