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Preface

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This proposal agrees and don't aim to conflict with

Current problem

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Currently big articles are getting optimized further from multiple Wiki Projects since all use the same guidelines.

Example: The article Linux is an article interest from 7 different Wiki Projects (including us).

Currently these articles are part of our Top importance list:

I don't think that we are able to contribute a significant effect if we consider those articles as Top priority and work on those further.

Intention of a new FOSS assessment system

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Prioritization based on need, support of FOSS and demand by the community. Bottom-up approach instead of pushing the dinosaurs further.

We should ask ourselves:

  • How important is this piece of software current in the FOSS space?
  • Does it gets recommended on popular listings as privacytools/privacyguides or so called awesome listings?
  • Can we prevent young FOSS articles fall victim Wikipedia:Articles for deletion due to maintainer struggle to find secondary sources or because no one supports them and it ends up in a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
  • How can we align our work more with the needs of the FOSS community
  • Can we help someone who wants to use FOSS software to make the right decision?

Open Questions

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  • How to ensure that all possible topics fall in one of the mentioned criteria?
  • How to ensure that articles not regularly fall into multiple criteria? E.g.: Richard Stallman falls into Low (due to well established article) and Mid (Stallman being an important figurehead for the FOSS community)
  • How to make publicly clear that this is according to the rules of Wikipedia mentioned in the preface?
  • Do we from the FOSS Task Force agree with the additional workload to reevaluate all currently FOSS related articles of almost 3000 articles?

Importance scale

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WikiProject article importance scheme
Importance Criteria Examples
Top - Handpicked topics by FOSS Task Force
High - New FOSS projects in recent use but struggle with secondary sources but have a chance to fulfill Wikipedia:Notability

- Lists and comparisons of FOSS

- Nitter, Freetube, Pixelfed, Invidious

- List of password managers, List of free and open-source software packages

Mid - FOSS in widespread use but superseeded by newer FOSS projects

- Topics which are suited to promote FOSS ideas

- Zabbix, OpenOffice.org

- Richard Stallman, Chromium (web browser), Android Open Source Project

Low - Well established articles, usually already high or mid quality

- FOSS of mostly historical relevance (includes unmaintained software) or changed to closed source

- Ubuntu, Copyleft, Plan 9 from Bell Labs

- Mitro, μTorrent