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WikiProject Free Software is a WikiProject 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/Linux, although these are also covered by sister project WikiProject Linux;
  • other 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.

Contents 1 Article rating statistics 2 What to do 2.1 Verifying the bare minimum 2.2 Adding references 3 Participants 4 Templates 4.1 Articles 4.2 Userbox 5 Assessment 6 Project selected article 7 WikiProject Free Software articles 8 TODOs 8.1 TODO items specific to the WikiProject 8.2 Free software articles TODO 8.3 Stub and short articles

[edit] Article rating statistics

Free software articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2				2
	A		2				2
	GA	1	3	3			7
	B	8	32	24	38		102
	Start	1	24	46	190	6	267
	Stub		2	15	105	23	145
	Assessed	10	65	88	333	29	525
	Unassessed					154	154
	Total	10	65	88	333	183	679

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.

[edit] What to do

See also: #TODOs

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:

1. Link to {{portal|Free software|Free Software Portal Logo.svg}}, usually in the "See also" section.
2. Mention that it is free software.
3. Say which free software licence(s) is(are) used by the project.
4. 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).
5. 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>

[edit] Participants

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

1. Stormchaser (talk) 17:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
2. Anhimgr8 03:36, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
3. Geekman314^{(contact me)} 16:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
   
4. KeybladeSephi ^{Talk Contributions} 22:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Sodaplayer ^{talk contributions} 22:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
6. |SUBZ3R0| 00:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Trisweb 00:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
8. Wikinerd2000_Talk 18:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
9. Zephyris _Talk 19:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
10. RedSpike101 15:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
11. P3net 05:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
12. NerdyNSK 00:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
13. -- Ryan 14:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
14. Mayur Fernandes 00:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
15. Ashawley 02:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
16. ThePurpleMonkey_{(talk•portal•contribs•count)} - Count me in!
17. Yarou 18:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
18. Cabalamat 05:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
19. MichaelNetzer 08:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
20. Potatoj316 19:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
21. AQ 21:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
22. Sean 18:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
23. Muchris 12:30, 1 March 2007
24. h2g2bob 14:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
25. Jonathan Roberts 8:17, 6 Marth 2007 (UTC)
26. Superm401 - Talk 03:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
27. Neal Locke 22:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
28. Menasim( discuss ) 18:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
29. DaniDarling 18:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
30. Gronky 14:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
31. themcman1 (help me with my sig) 10:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
32. S. Gartner ^talk 21:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
33. Hotshotesquire 01:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)hotshotesquire
34. Ma11achy 13:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
35. Guyjohnston 12:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
36. Aditya 18:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
37. mako (talk•contribs) 13:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
38. Adam1213 Talk + 10:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
39. isilanes (talk|contribs) 14:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
40. Jet123 (Talk) 01:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
41. Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 16:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
42. (→zelzany - review) 20:24, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
43. Tharikrish 15:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
44. Daimanta 17:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
45. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 16:20, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
46. Carpetsmoker 01:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
47. Apageor2 19:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
48. Kl4m 03:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
49. --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 20:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
50. +A.0u 01:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
51. Bbadger 16:56, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
52. Jimduchek 15:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
53. Chills42 (talk) 20:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
54. Resistor (talk) 22:26, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
55. vendion (talk) 18:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
56. Afarnen (talk) 16:15, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
57. ansa (talk) (UTC)
58. Johnsu01 (talk) 15:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
59. Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs)
60. HockeyInJune (talk) 02:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
61. Wwwolf3 (talk) 00:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
62. — Northgrove 13:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
63. Stephenchou0722 (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
64. 0xd34df00d (talk) 08:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
65. Linuxgeek007 (talk) 22:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
66. – Deb ‖ Poke • EditList ‖ 22:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
67. Tyciol (talk) 04:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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.

[edit] Templates

[edit] 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.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received an importance rating on the assessment scale.

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

[edit] Userbox

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

[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.

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007)
FL {{FL-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough list; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible.	FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
A {{A-Class}}	Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points.	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise acceptable. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class.	Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, or excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job.	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B {{B-Class}}	Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.	Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.	Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and references.
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: a particularly useful picture or graphic multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded.	Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage.	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

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

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Free Software:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Other: 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. Nominate an article for improvement on the talk page.

[edit] Free software articles TODO

Please consider adding this box to your Watchlist (click here).

[edit] Stub and short articles