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Welcome to WikiProject Free Software, a subdivision of WikiProject Software. WikiProject Free Software is a separate workgroup of WikiProject Software devoted to the improvement and creation of articles pertinent to free (as in freedom) software. WikiProject Free Software is intended to improve and maintain free software articles, bring such articles to good or featured article state, and to create new free software articles. The scope of this project extends to:
- articles about:
- the free BSD variants;
- GNU (also covered by sister project WikiProject Linux)
- GNU variants;
- other free systems consisting of free software;
- free software programs;
- articles whose primary topics are highly pertinent to free software, such as:
- websites which deal with free software;
- organizations, such as
- the GNU Project that develops it;
- the Free Software Foundation that promotes it;
- SourceForge which distributes it;
- people, such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Keith Bostic;
Always remember to follow Wikipedia conventions, and to be bold.
Related projects are WikiProject Linux and WikiProject Computing.
[edit] Article rating statistics
| Free software articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| B | 13 | 32 | 27 | 20 | 1 | 93 | |
| C | 1 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 4 | 63 | |
| Start | 2 | 40 | 84 | 308 | 25 | 459 | |
| Stub | 5 | 31 | 348 | 31 | 415 | ||
| List | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| NA | 2 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 56 | ||
| Assessed | 17 | 95 | 169 | 713 | 52 | 62 | 1,108 |
| Unassessed | 3 | 117 | 120 | ||||
| Total | 17 | 95 | 169 | 716 | 52 | 179 | 1,228 |
To edit ratings for articles tagged {{WikiProject Free Software}}, just add |class=|importance= inside the {{}} symbols, i.e. {{WikiProject Free Software|class=|importance=}}. The tag does not do this automatically, so by adding this you can rate the article.
Free software articles by quality log
[edit] What to do
Here are some tasks that have to be done constantly or to almost every article. Further down the page you'll find TODO lists with one-off tasks that need to be done.
[edit] Verifying the bare minimum
Each article about a free software project should:
- Link to {{Portal|Free software}}, usually in the "See also" section.
- Mention that it is free software.
- Say which free software licence(s) is (are) used by the project.
- Provide a link to the projects licence for confirmation (probably best done as a reference for the sentence about which free software licence the project uses).
- Add a {{fact}} tag to any unverified statements.
[edit] Adding references
If you want to use an external webpage as a reference for a statement, the best way to do this is with a "{{cite web}}" template inside <ref> tags. The "cite web" template can take many optional fields, but "title" and "url" are mandatory. So here's a minimal reference:
The GNU project was launched in 1983.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
|title=GNU Initial Announcement
|}}</ref>
Or if the information isn't so obvious in the linked document, or if you can give more information, you can use some of the additional tags:
<ref>{{cite web
|title = POSIX® 1003.1 FAQ Version 1.12
|url = http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
|quote = The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman.
|date = 2006-02-02
|accessdate = 2006-07-16
|}}</ref>
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[edit] Templates
[edit] Articles
To tag an article as a WPFS article, please add {{WikiProject Free Software|class=|importance=}} to the top of the talk page, which yields:
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This also adds it to Category:WikiProject Free Software articles.
[edit] Userbox
The WPFS userbox is transcluded by using {{User WPFS}}, which yields:
| FO SS |
This user is a member of WikiProject Free Software. |
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[edit] Assessment
The Assessment department will focus on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Free Software related articles. This will aid us in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
Assessment should be conducted following these guidelines.
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
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The article has attained featured article status.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | L'incoronazione di Poppea (as of August 2010) |
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The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class.
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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help. | 102nd Intelligence Wing (as of March 2010) |
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The article has attained good article status.
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Usain Bolt (as of November 2009) |
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| B | The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | KV55 (as of November 2009) |
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| C | The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues. | Architecture of Sweden (as of May 2009) |
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| Start | An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
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| Stub | A very basic description of the topic.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. | Geodia gibberosa (as of July 2009) |
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The article has attained featured list status.
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available. | Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3) (as of February 2009) |
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| List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of aikidoka (as of June 2007) |
Stub, Start, and B class assessments can be made by every editor (although it is generally regarded good behaviour not to assess an article in which you have had a major influence yourself)
A class assessment is made within this project
Good Article and Feature Article assessments require formal review procedures outside of this project.
[edit] Project selected 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.
[edit] WikiProject Free Software articles
- Complete listing of articles that are under this project: Category:WikiProject Free Software articles
- General list of articles related to free software: Special:Whatlinkshere/Portal:Free software
- The top-level category of free software articles: Category:Free software
[edit] TODOs
[edit] TODO items specific to the WikiProject
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[edit] Free software articles TODO
Please consider adding this box to your Watchlist (click here).
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.
- (2011-12-26) Please comment on essay on reliable sources for software articles.
- (2010-02-26) The articles Dwm, Qvwm, Wmii, Evilwm are nominated for deletion by one user. Need your opinion.
- (2008-10-29) The Comparison of 3D computer graphics software article needs to be heavily expanded.
- (2008-09-26) The OJS article needs significant cleanup, and reads like an advertisement.
- (2008-03-19) The article Hacker (programmer subculture) has some sections which should be rewritten with a more "detached" style, and needs more references.
- (2007-10-28) The timeline of FSF's and Debian's free software definitions needs to be constructed (see Talk:The Free Software Definition#Timeline: FSD and DFSG)
- (2007-09-18) The European Union v. Microsoft (the anti-trust case) article needs to add mentions of FSFE, free software, and Samba.
- (2007-09-17) The GNU Compiler Collection article contains no information about how fast/slow or big/small the outputted programs are.
- (2007-08-13) GPL linking exception - this article isn't yet linked to by the articles about projects that use this exception, and the article itself contains quite a few tags complaining about original research or mistakes. Care sought.
- (2007-05-14) The GNU/Linux naming controversy, Emacs, Common Unix Printing System, Ubuntu (operating system) and PaX 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.
- (2007-04-13) The Player Project needs expansion, particularly someone with knowledge of the project to write about its history, goals, features without turning it back into an advert.
- (2007-04-11) The dual-licensing article needs some clean-up (this is half-done now)
- (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
- (2007-02-07) 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.
- (2007-01-24) 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 community. 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) 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
- (2006-08-25) 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}}tag to articles about, or related to, free software. - (2005-12-30) The Copyleft article contains information duplicated elsewhere, a review would be good
[edit] Stub and short articles
The following articles are not yet started. If you are only able to write a stub, please add the {{free-software-stub}} tag.
Open Usability e.V. | Verein zur Förderung Freier Informationen und Software | Verein zur Förderung Freier Software | Wilhelm Tux | iPKG | Organisation of Free Software in Education and Teaching
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.
Here are some specific articles that have been highlighted by contributors to this portal: Association For Free Software | Associazione Software Libero | Associação Nacional para o Software Livre | Beamer (LaTeX) | BKchem | DSPAM | Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit | Collaborative software development model | Free Software Directory | Free Software Foundation Latin America | Free software movement | Fundación Vía Libre | Gnash | GNU Oleo | Loïc Dachary | lsh | Ricardo Galli | Sourcefire, Inc | Stet | theKompany | W3C Software Notice and License | ExifTool