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Welcome!
Welcome to the free and open-source software task force, a project devoted to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to free and open-source software (FOSS), and bringing them to good or featured article status. The scope of this project extends to articles about:
- free and open-source software programs
- FOSS operating systems (Linux-based, BSD-based, and others)
- websites for and about FOSS software and community
- organizations, such as the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, and the Open Source Initiative
- people, such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Keith Bostic
Always remember to follow Wikipedia conventions, and to be bold!
The FOSS task force is supported by WikiProject Software and WikiProject Computing.
Core tasks
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.
Verify the bare minimum
Each article about a free and open-source software project should:
- Contain a link to the Free and open-source software portal:
- add
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}to the "See also" section or the last section of prose in the article body. - Alternatively, add
{{Portal bar|Free and open-source software}}to the bottom of the page.
- add
- Mention that it is free and open-source software in the opening paragraph, preferably in the first sentence
- Describe the free software licenses used by the project, preferably in the infobox, with a citation to the project's license
- Use
{{citation needed}}to tag any unverified statements
Complete tasks on to-do list
Those tasks are the backlog of issues found by other task force members.
Add references
Make sure that your source meets the criteria for reliable sources, especially that they are not self-published (personal blogs, forums, etc.). This project develops its own list of useful, reliable sources and a custom search engine. Feel free to audit and improve the list with other reliable sources you can find.
Improve article links
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.
| Free and open-source software articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 GA
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3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |||
| B | 14 | 28 | 38 | 36 | 1 | 117 | |
| C | 11 | 84 | 170 | 298 | 16 | 579 | |
| Start | 37 | 182 | 826 | 182 | 1,227 | ||
| Stub | 14 | 358 | 138 | 510 | |||
| List | 7 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 54 | ||
| Category | 131 | 131 | |||||
| Disambig | 2 | 2 | |||||
| File | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Project | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 9 | 41 | 117 | 169 | ||
| Template | 34 | 34 | |||||
| Other | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Assessed | 25 | 161 | 433 | 1,580 | 295 | 352 | 2,846 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 184 | 185 | ||||
| Total | 26 | 161 | 433 | 1,580 | 295 | 536 | 3,031 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 11,884 | Ω = 4.86 | |||||
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 01 Jun 2024 – Cuppa (Java library) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by WikiLinuz (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 09 Jun 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 24 May 2024 – 9wm (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 09 Jun 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 22 May 2024 – BasKet Note Pads (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by SL93 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 06 Jun 2024; see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 07 Jun 2024 – Jsish (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 90.167.203.91 (t · c): Fails WP:NSOFT
- 28 May 2024 – K Desktop Environment 3 (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) and endorsed by 104.7.152.180 (t · c) on 29 May 2024 was deproded by Ber (t · c) on 03 Jun 2024
- 26 May 2024 – XFast (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 24.153.57.64 (t · c) was deleted
Articles to be merged
- 17 May 2024 – Free software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Free and open-source software by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 17 May 2024 – Open-source software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Free and open-source software by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jan 2024 – Ogg page (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ogg by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Nov 2023 – SUSE Linux (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to openSUSE by Flakesosa (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 10 Apr 2023 – Blender (software) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Zarex (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Aug 2021 – ScummVM (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Thumperward (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Mar 2021 – TYPO3 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AngusWOOF (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
Open tasks
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Active participants
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