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.
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 31 Jul 2024 – Tuleap (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Timtrent (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 10 Aug 2024 – SMW+ (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Pppery (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 17 Aug 2024; see discussion (2 participants)
Requested moves
- 06 Aug 2024 – Signal (messaging app) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Signal (instant messenger) by Sucrehypsy (t · c); see discussion
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
Active participants
Participants
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After you sign up, please get active on this page and/or on the talk page. You may want to add some of the below todo lists to your watch list.
Templates
Articles
To tag an article as a FOSS article, please add the following to the top of its talk page:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|free-software=y|free-software-importance=|software=y|software-importance=}}
This produces the following banner:
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The banner adds the talk page to Category:WikiProject Free and open-source software articles.
Userbox
The FOSS task force userbox is transcluded by using {{User FOSS task force}}
, which yields:
![]() | This user is in the free and open-source software task force. |
Invitation
To invite a user to the FOSS task force, use {{subst:FOSS task force invite}}
, which displays:
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Hi, WikiProject Software/Free and open-source software task force! Thank you for your contributions to articles related to free and open-source software. I'd like to invite you to become a part of the free and open-source software task force, a project aimed at improving the quality of articles about free and open-source software on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the free and open-source software task force for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Participants". Thanks! ~~~~ |
Use {{subst:FOSS task force invite|heading=y}}
to include a section heading before the message.
Assessment
The Assessment department will focus on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's FOSS-related articles. This will aid us in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
Stub-, Start-, and B-class assessments can be made by every editor (although generally you should not assess an article on which you have had a major influence). A-class assessment is made within this project, while Good Article and Feature Article assessments require formal review procedures outside of this project.
Assessment should be conducted following these guidelines.
See also
Related projects
Categories
- Category:WikiProject Free Software articles, a list of articles under this project
- Special:Whatlinkshere/Portal:Free and open-source software, a general list of FOSS-related articles
- Category:Free software, the top-level category of free software articles