Wikipedia:WikiProject Free Software

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Currently, this project is extremely new. Our current primary objectives are to recruit members, and to tag articles as WPFS articles with the {{WPFS}} template.

Shortcut: WP:WPFS WP:WPFREE WP:WPOPEN

Free software Portal

WikProject Free Software is a WikiProject devoted to the improvement and creation of articles pertinent to free (as in freedom) software.

1 Todo items specific to the WikiProject
2 Sister projects
3 Scope
4 Article rating statistics
5 Participants
6 Goals
7 Ongoing tasks
8 Specific articles for improvement
9 Templates
- 9.1 Articles
- 9.2 Userbox
10 Project featured article
11 WikiProject Free Software articles
12 General todo items
13 Specific tasks
14 General tasks
15 Requested articles
16 Expanding stubs

Todo items specific to the WikiProject

See also: #General todo items

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Free Software:

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Other:
- Recruit users
- Tag articles

For more tasks, please see Portal:Free software/Contribute.

Sister projects

Scope

WikiProject Free Software is designed to initiate the improvement and maintenance of free software articles, the bringing of such articles to good or featured article status, and to initiate the creation of free software articles. GNU/Linux articles and those about free distributions of BSD also fall under the scope of this project, although GNU/Linux articles are also covered by WikiProject Linux, our sister project. In addition, articles whose primary topic is not free software, but are highly pertinent to it, i.e., webcomics which often deal with free software, or organizations such as SourceForge which distribute it, can also fall under our scope.

Article rating statistics

Free software articles		Importance
Free software articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1				1
	A		1				1
	GA			1		3	4
	B	1	3	1	1	1	7
	Start	1	1		2	1	5
	Stub			1		3	4
	Assessed	2	6	3	3	8	22
	Unassessed	0	1	0	0	145	146
	Total	2	7	3	3	153	168

To edit ratings for articles tagged {{WPFS}}, just add |class=|importance= inside the {{}} symbols, i.e. {{WPFS|class=|importance=}}. The tag does not do this automatically, so by adding this you can rate the article.

Participants

If you wish to join the project, please add your name below this sentence, by adding *~~~~ on a new line.

Owainbut 10:59, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Geekman314^{(contact me)} 16:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
K e yblad e S e phi ^{Talk Contributions} 22:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Sodaplayer ^{talk contributions} 22:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
|SUBZ3R0| 00:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Trisweb 00:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Wikinerd2000_Talk 18:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Zephyris _Talk 19:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
P3net 05:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
NerdyNSK 00:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
-- Ryan 14:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Mayur Fernandes 00:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Ashawley 02:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
ThePurpleMonkey _{(talk•portal•contribs•count)} - Count me in!
Yarou 18:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Cabalamat 05:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
MichaelNetzer 08:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Potatoj316 19:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
AQ 21:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Sean 18:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Muchris 12:30, 1 March 2007
h2g2bob 14:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Jonathan Roberts 8:17, 6 Marth 2007 (UTC)
Superm401 - Talk 03:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Neal Locke 22:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Menasim( discuss ) 18:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
DaniDarling 18:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

After you sign up, please get active on this page and/or on the Talk page.

Goals

To bring all free software articles on Wikipedia to good or featured article status.
To create new articles about the myriads of free software available.

Always remember to follow Wikipedia conventions, and to be bold.

Ongoing tasks

Recruit Wikipedians to the project.
Complete the above goals, and the tasks on the to-do list.
Tag articles as WikiProject Free Software articles.
Create appropriate templates for the project, and free software in general.

Specific articles for improvement

Members are able to place specific articles that are in need of improvement under this heading.

Templates

Articles

To tag an article as a WPFS article, please add {{WPFS}} to the top of the talk page, which yields:

Free software Portal

This article is part of WikiProject Free Software, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve free software-related articles.

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This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.

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This article has not yet received an importance rating on the assessment scale.

This also adds it to Category:WikiProject Free Software articles.

Userbox

The WPFS userbox is transcluded by using {{User WPFS}}, which yields:

This user is a member of WikiProject Free Software

Project featured article

When enough members have been gathered, weekly votes will be taken to determine a high-quality article to be placed here in a similar manner to the standard FA.

WikiProject Free Software articles

For a complete listing of articles that are under us, please see Category:WikiProject Free Software articles.

For a general list of articles related to free software, see: Special:Whatlinkshere/Portal:Free software and Category:Free software.

General todo items

See also: #Todo items specific to the WikiProject

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Specific tasks

If you would like to help, here are some suggestions for things to do. The date in parenthesis is the date on which the task was added.

(2007-03-25) The Embedded Linux is full of external links, too many, some just need to be removed, and other should point to wikipedia articles instead
(2007-03-22) The OpenMoko article is quite weak for such an interesting free software topic. Help sought.
(2007-03-03) Patents and free software is a consolidation of previous stubs - it's new, so it needs some help and some review
(2007-03-01) Permissive and copyleft licences needs help - try looking at what links to it, such as Free_software_licences#BSD_philosophy, BSD licenses, and Copyleft to see what should be factored out into this article.
(2007-02-14) List of FSF approved software licences would be better if each licence were followed by some examples of software released under that licence.
(2007-02-07) The History of free software article is new and seeks contributions, particularly if you have links to essays by old-times for info about free software in the 80s and 70s, as well as 90s and 60s.
(2007-02-01) The Emacs, Common Unix Printing System, and Ubuntu articles were formerly featured articles, but have since had that status revoked. Maybe it would be easy to get them back up to Featured Article quality.
(2007-01-24) Some cleanup, and some aggregation, and probably some merging, is needed for ~~Autotools~~, GNU build system, and GNU toolchain
(2006-12-18) Add a section on how to contribute to the opensource comunity. This should cover how to create a program from existing technologies, languages and other opensource programs, how to fix a bug, write documentation, etc.
(2006-10-10) In Free software licences, more work is needed on the new section: ~~Freedom preserving restrictions~~
(2006-10-10) Many articles containing phrases such as "free software licence" or "free software community", when it is usually better to link to "free software licence" and "free software community" instead of the main free software article.
(2006-09-18) Free software should be mentioned in Software engineering
(2006-09-13) Free software community needs more work
~~(2006-09-03) Eclipse Public License need to be improved. There are severe POV issues.~~
(2006-08-25) For each article about a free software package, there should be a link to the licence information.
(2006-08-22) The Category:Free software companies category is new and could use some help. Category:Copyleft licensing needs help too, as does Category:Emacs users.
(2006-06-15) add {{free software-stub}} to free software related articles which are stubs
(2006-06-06) Work is being done to create useful sub-categories in Category:Free software. This requires help to move articles from Category:free software into the sub-categories.
(2006-04-12) Add the {{portal|Free software|Floss draft.png}} tag to articles about, or related to, free software.
(2005-12-30) The Copyleft article contains information duplicated elsewhere, a review would be good

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General tasks

Requested articles

The following articles are not yet started. If you are only able to write a stub, please add the {{free software-stub}} tag.

Expanding stubs

On Wikipedia, "stubs" are articles that someone has started, but need help in their expansion. Free software related stubs can be found in Category:Free software stubs. There you will find free software articles-in-need.

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