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There is a content dispute on the GNU article -the problem is basically where and how to put the current usability status of GNU in the article lead. There is a long discussion between me and User:Yworo on the talk page about that and it seems we're unable to reach a compromise. Expert attention would help. Thanks. -- Cyclopia talk 23:41, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi all, I requested adding a "forks" field to the template, but I was told that consensus is required. Since I think this field would mostly (though not exclusively) useful to free software, I'm asking here. I don't know if it's better to discuss here or (likely) on the template talk page, I'll keep an eye on both anyway. Thanks! Balabiot ( talk) 22:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you might be interested in my suggestion for a new subcategory of KDE here. -- Schuhpuppe ( talk) 01:41, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, I've just joined this WikiProject. I'm working on bring Perl back to good article status — I'd like to get it all the way up to featured. Feedback on the article (and the spinoff, Perl language structure) is welcome. Feezo (Talk) 00:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Beerware, an article that would seem to fall under this project's purview, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beerware. I'd like to invite the experts here to either comment on the debate, or perhaps to improve the article to address concerns. -- RoninBK T C 06:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GNU/Linux naming controversy. - Ahunt ( talk) 12:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
let's start making some softwre testing tools writing test plans, writing test cases, Writing Test Suites, writing defects — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.147.19.21 ( talk) 19:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I've proposed the creation of WikiProject Gnome. Please comment. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:08, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I think this page should be taken into scope of WikiProject Free Software. Though it is currently in AfD process, I hope it will survive, and then can be rated and tagged. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 12:24, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
User:WhatisFeelings? has nominated Mozilla Firefox for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. WhatisFeelings? ( talk) 04:50, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that there are two pages ( LLVM and Low Level Virtual Machine) that are almost the same article. It looks as as if someone who didn't know how to move articles copied and pasted one article into the other. Unfortunately, no one nipped it in the bud, so they are slightly different, so making one redirect to the other would result in lost information. I have tagged the articles requesting that LLVM be merged into Low Level Virtual Machine, and normally I would do the merge myself, but I know absolutely nothing about this subject, it would be better for someone in a project that supports the article could do it. Could some member of this project do the merge for me? Thanks and happy editing! pluma ♫ ♯ 18:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I just heard about this software on tv which is used by the Pirate Party Germany but didn't find an article in En.Wikipedia. I found one reference at Schulze Method. And a full article at this Google translated German wikipedia page. I don't know enough about software to do it, but maybe someone here does. Thanks! CarolMooreDC 21:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs article was nominated for GA review (at WP:GAN#COMP). Comments (and the review itself) are welcome! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi folks,
We have the following categories:
There's no need for the second and third categories. Free software and open source software are synonyms; while it's true that not all FSF-approved licences are OSI-approved (and vice versa), that's the function of the FSF-approved and OSI-approved subcategories.
Is there something I've missed or should the second and third categories be deleted? -- Sanglorian ( talk) 20:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC) (moved from archive talk page by KarlB)
Hello WikiProject Software/Free Software! The Firefox article is really outdated and in need of repair. It would be great if we could put together a team to help maintain it - or at least bring it up to date. Thanks ҭᴙᴇᴡӌӌ 15:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
The request for comments regarding recent changes in template:infobox software is filed at Template talk:Infobox software#RfC: natural and programming languages labels. Input would be very appreciated. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:57, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:PFSfooter has been nominated for renaming to
Portal:Free software/Selected article/footer. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
DH85868993 (
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01:27, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
I have started an RFC at Talk:Ubuntu (operating system)#Ubuntu as "Adware". Please join the discussion there. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if this is miscategorized, but I felt that the next-gen may have Free Software implications, and felt that the users here would be technologically minded, if this is off the mark I apologize. I'm looking for additional outside opinions into the inclusion or exclusion of Video Game Consoles into the 8th Generation article. I have started a new section here and am requesting outside comment. Talk:History_of_video_game_consoles_(eighth_generation)#.22We_need_hardware_comparisons.22. Thank you. - Kai445 ( talk) 07:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
The article is here. And I was hoping people could help me expand it because it is a stub right now. I believe this article can become a g.a. in the very least because of the popularity of this app. For example, the number of review in the app store are 314801 Ratings, while something like Google Earth has 440890 Ratings. So it has the same order of magnitude number of reviews as Google Earth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quacod ( talk • contribs) 03:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As Chakra_(operating_system) is noted on its talk page as being within the scope of WikiProject Free Software, I would like to offer folks an opportunity to voice their opinions on an ongoing thread at Talk:Chakra_(operating_system)#Regarding_notability_tag....
Thanks in advance for your time and attention,
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 00:15, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Everyone: several of us have been talking about starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Open, which would support the improvement of topics like open educational resources, open access, and free/open source software. Please join us this Thursday for a planning discussion! Or add your ideas to the page or talk page. - Pete ( talk) 18:19, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
I've nominated OpenOffice.org for feature. Uninvolved reviewers for FAC would be most welcome. Or, if you haven't time for that, just looking over the article would be good :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 09:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
Surveillance awareness day is a proposal for the English Wikipedia to take special steps to promote awareness of global surveillance on February 11, 2014. That date is chosen to coincide with similar actions being taken by organizations such as Mozilla, Reddit, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Feedback from members of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. Please come join us as we brainstorm, polish, and present this proposal to the Wikipedia Community. -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 12:18, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a major need for categorizing academic tools as free or proprietary. For instance, List of academic databases and search engines only tells you if the service is charged for, not whether the software or data is copyleft.
Major tools like CiteSeerX, CrossRef, CiteULike, and Citebase have no info of this sort, or have something ambiguous, not in an infobox. Some FOSS topics like OAI-PMH are also not well-covered.
Information on the openness of publishers would also be very useful; some are brilliant at making data available and using open standards, others less so.
Scientists still mostly, albiet unwillingly, use a lot of closed-source software. Making this sort of information easily available would help in key areas that would make science more open.
Is there anyone with a good knowledge of FOSS licensing who would be willing to take on one of these three tasks (fixing the list, fixing the page infoboxes, adding info to publisher's pages)? Does anyone have other urgent tasks in this category?
HLHJ ( talk) 20:47, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Contributions are welcome at an ongoing discussion at Talk:List of formerly proprietary software#Photoshop and Talk:List of formerly proprietary software#Non-commercial software on this list concerning the inclusion criteria for the list. (Note that someone changed the criteria stated in the article itself while the discussion was ongoing, so please consider each version.) — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
There is a dispute on the notability of CC Pdfconverter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC_PDF_Converter. What makes opensource freeware notable? 1.114.13.44 ( talk) 08:29, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
This is a notice about Category:Software/Free Software articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 03:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Articles related to mobile software such as Mobile computing, Mobile application development, History of the iPhone... don't make any mention about app markets and digital rights management on mobile platforms. Only Tablet computer includes a one-sentence reference to walled gardens.
Is there an article that can be linked from those which covers the criticism against the iPad for introducing this model to personal computing, the initial boost to Android for being open source, the current attempts of Google to move the platform back to a closed source userland, and the movement to build free ROMs? Diego ( talk) 18:21, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a new proposal for a grant proposal for for an offline mediawiki sync using xml. I met the wikem guys at a Houston conference where I work at Chevron and it is really exciting what the guys at WikEM.org are working on. The wikipedia community should contribute their opinion on this grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Offline_MediaWiki_search_for_NASA_and_Medicine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.18.226.225 ( talk) 02:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
I am currently having a bit of a hard time starting an Open Lighting Project page. I would like to add Open Lighting Project under the Free Software categories. Do I need to just add the template and fulfill the guidelines? Nightrune 00:39, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
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this wikiproject task force. Fgnievinski ( talk) 17:21, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi all! The instructions of writing a new wiki article are somewhat overwhelming, so I'd rather discuss this first before trying anything.
First and foremost, as I'm part of the developer team for picoTCP there is a conflict of interest. Though, my intentions are ini no means commercially related: I'd like for any engineer to have the full overview of what solution are out there. Would someone be interested to guide me in this endeavor? Would it be OK to start with a minimal page and then further expand it with new information in the future?
Looking forward to your reply! Toonpeters ( talk) 12:25, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I hope this is the right place to point FOSS interested people to the deletion discussion about the Bareos article: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bareos Gul.maikat ( talk) 12:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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I couldn't figure out what licence Dropbox Paper is released with, or is it offered as a 'service' only without source code download? -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:52, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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please participate in the discussion I started over at
Talk:Free software movement:
Merger proposals: the issue of the separate Open-source software movement article.
Please comment there and not here for a centralized discussion. Thank you.
-- Fixuture ( talk) 21:05, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
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The WT:MOSCOMP#Definite article section is proposed, here, to be substantially revised for better agreement with RS practice, linguistics, and MoS norms. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 17:11, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Free_Software
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 15:45, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, there. I invite everyone to participate in the polite ongoing discussion. -- Entalpia2 ( talk) 15:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
The discussion is at Talk:Apache OpenOffice. -- Entalpia2 ( talk) 21:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Shall we consider including "articles of Licenses of Open Source / Free Software" to the scope of this WikiProject? Codecodelover ( talk) 21:30, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
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There is a request for comment on the Brave (web browser) article:
If you are interested, please participate at Talk:Brave (web browser)#Request for comment on "pay to surf" classification. — Newslinger talk 20:20, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
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13:29, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
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The result of the move request was: moved ( closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Free Software →
Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Free and open-source software task force – The proposed name would align this WikiProject with the
Free and open-source software portal.
Free software is an
ambiguous term, since the word free can mean both "absence of control or restriction" (
libre software) and "absence of cost" (
freeware). This WikiProject is concerned with
libre software, but occasionally, editors mistakenly tag
freeware articles with {{
WikiProject Free Software}} and include it into the project. The term
free and open-source software clarifies the scope of the project, and would make a more suitable name. This WikiProject would remain a subdivision of
WikiProject Software despite the simplification of its page title. —
Newslinger
talk 07:45, 23 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting.
SITH
(talk) 12:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. —usernamekiran
(talk)
10:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
As GNOME and KDE are major free and open-source software projects, I propose to merge the inactive WikiProject GNOME and WikiProject KDE into the currently active free and open-source software task force. — Newslinger talk 01:21, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I am uncertain, if this is the right place to ask you for this, so please redirect me if I am wrong here. I created the FOSS Draft:Eclipse Theia ( /info/en/?search=Draft:Eclipse_Theia) and would like to get a review. It has already been rejected a couple of times and I am trying to improve the article. Thanks in advance ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:43, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Newslinger, thank you very much for your detailed review. It helps me a lot, getting a feeling for the sources. It is a good advise to add the information about Theia to the existing article of Eclipse Foundation. Unfortunately it doesn't have a section with a list of existing project and it feels a bit out of place to just add Theia there, don't you think so? I did some more research and found the following source. Would any of them work as a reliable source? 1. https://sylvainleroy.com/2018/05/07/top3-self-hosted-cloud-ide-2018/
2. https://alternativeto.net/software/theia/
4. https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
Thanks for your help! ChristinFrohne ( talk) 12:26, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
wow! thank you so much for your engagement and help! Let's see what kind of feedback the others have :) ChristinFrohne ( talk) 06:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
oh and one comment: source no. 15 from your list covers the topic about Theia actually quite well, in my opinion. The whole article is about Eclipse Che changing its development environment to Theia. It is mentioned in the sub headline. So maybe that source can then also state its notability? ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:30, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Newslinger, thank you so much for your help and the copyedit! Awesome that the article is published now! I will keep your edits in mind when I will work on an other article. It's simpler and easier to understand now for everybody, awesome :) ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:53, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of LWN.net (formerly Linux Weekly News) at the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § LWN.net for Draft:NumWorks. Thanks! — Newslinger talk 02:45, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Since the free and open-source software task force is no longer a WikiProject, I've proposed to merge our old WikiProject banner, {{ WikiProject Free and open-source software}}, into {{ WikiProject Computing}}. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 30 § Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software. — Newslinger talk 08:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of SitePoint on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § SitePoint for Grav (CMS). — Newslinger talk 22:48, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of Hacker Noon ( hackernoon.com) and InfoSec Handbook ( infosec-handbook.eu). If you're interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Hacker Noon (hackernoon.com) and InfoSec Handbook (infosec-handbook.eu) for /e/ (operating system). — Newslinger talk 03:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
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There is a request for comment on the reliability of Liliputing ( liliputing.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § RfC: Liliputing. — Newslinger talk 20:43, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
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Newly created article that might not be notable per WP:GNG or WP:PRODUCT. There may be specific notability guidelines for software, so I was wondering if someone could take a look at this and assess it. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 00:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, the article just describes the German case. Please add information about the linx tax regulations of Spain, the European Union and Canada. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 19:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
This article was originally accepted and quickly tagged AfD for failure to meet GNG and NSOFT. The argument got quite heated, and it's clear that as an employee of Containous (the creators of Traefik) that I have entirely way too much COI to be submitting this to AfC again. I've edited the Draft to the point where I feel it's quite nuetral, and includes what I consider sources which meet GNG, however, these sources were rejected by those who commented in the AfD as "manuals or tutorials" so they didn't count (even though these are published books, from trusted sources, that include Traefik as more than passing mentions, and there are reviews of the software, which I have now cited in the Draft).
I'd really appreciate feedback as to next steps and if anyone here feels comfortable with taking over from this point. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Kcmastrpc ( talk) 17:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
It looks like the editor who accepted the article originally has declined the AfC, stating the sources don't meet WP:GNG. I've referenced multiple independent articles and publishers who cover this software in-depth, so I'm not sure what else I can do here. Any additional assistance is appreciated. — Kcmastrpc ( talk) 16:53, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to write an article on a fork of Vuze (which itself is no longer developed), but due to previous activity of people affiliated with the project (e.g. posting things which looked very promotional), the bar to jump over is now a bit high for me and I need help with this article.
It would be great if more people had a look and helped.
Thanks!
Andrej Shadura ( talk) 08:17, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
All of this below is my personal opinion and a matter of commentary and critique. All of this can be only achieved by collaboration.
This post is inspired by a recent talks started by Abuluntu ( talk · contribs) with one of the proposals was merging WikiProject Linux into FOSS task force. All in all, I would be in favor of this, as the project seems dead. Regardless, I see a danger in the trend of losing free-software-related projects on WP:
And it's not happening because FOSS task force is blobbing – no, it seems just as quiet and nearly as deserted as the rest. Take a look at the main page: issues from todo list are mostly from 2006 and 2007. The page is actually rather well structured, so this may be why remaining people flock to it. What I'm afraid of is, if things progress, there will be no centralized point to gather around the issues of related articles. And *there are* issues:
This is not a comprehensive list, or you may even disagree with points already written, but the issue is, all of this will not go away without some steering.
The Free and open-source software task force needs to reinvent itself.
It needs new participants and in order to get them, it must become a more social experience and must provide more guidance for interested users. It should encourage more participation and become a hub for new users, where they feel welcome to ask questions and participate in work.
All your ideas are welcome, this are a few mine, noted while looking at successful WikiProjects:
— K4rolB ( talk) 21:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Because of nearly no activity on the talk page of WikiProject Linux I have started a discussion to join forces with this task force. Is that a good idea? – Abuluntu ( talk 12:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Suggestion
Hi everyone, I would like to get feedback on the suggestion of moving the page Parse_(platform) to Parse,_Inc.. The reason is the lack of disambiguation between the dissolved company Parse, Inc. and the active open-source project Parse Platform. The current article primarily describes the company history, but uses the open-source project name as the article title, easily creating confusion for readers. To address this, the proposed change is to move the article to Parse,_Inc.. This is analogous to the distinction between the company Facebook,_Inc. and the product Facebook, or the company Google and the product Firebase. I opened a move request in the past, but it seems to have expired without conclusion due to lack of participation. I am hoping that an admin (maybe Deepfriedokra) can advice on how to best approach this, or even approve the move. Should I just open another move request? COI disclosure: I am a member of Parse Platform. However I want to explicitly mention that this is not a promotional suggestion but intended to improve the article quality for readers. ManuelTrezza ( talk) 13:07, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm rather new as an editor to Wikpedia and I'm focusing on software/FOSS articles. I'm glad this Wikiproject already exists although there have been no recent activity on this talk page here. Could we make a short roll call to see who is currently watching here and being active whilst also having the possbility to get to know each other? I'm always on on IRC in #wikipedia-en - don't be shy to say hello GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 01:09, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
I was categorizing the leftover C-level unclassified FOSS articles by importance and struggled with just one. I would like to ask and discuss of the impotance of InterPlanetary_File_System to WT:FOSS. It is a protocol and network and not an application. I would have rated it High. But if I account that it's not an application it might be even a low or sohuld be excluded. You can find the place to rate it on top of Talk:InterPlanetary_File_System
My questions:
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 17:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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20:03, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Done. Tagged as low. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 22:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Here's some draft I have been working on:
Help appreciated Greatder ( talk) 06:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Note:
Discussion was continued here
I found it rather hard to find information on Github as an reliable source. For this reason I asked on Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Github_as_reliable_source_for_software_topics for some clarification. While I am aware that it can depend on each case if Github might be a reliable source, it is often factual while not being original research. But independently of what I am thinking it would help to have Github (or other source control software like Gitlab, Bitbucket) somewhere mentioned in the Wikipedia help articles for other people to read up on it. What is consensus here on this Project? GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 01:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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15:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
User:Beetstra has IMHO rightfully triggered the deletion of the Zabbix article.
I consider the topic a rather easy exercise for a small joint task force effort since the product itself is old, well known and still in a quite widespread use. I would suggest after it's likely deletion that we rebuild it with an updated POV which is more balanced which includes that it's mostly superseeded by more modern and secure software.
This is less about the importance of Zabbix itself than a community building action to see who is currently active and if we can do something together. I'm also open for different topics to work upon - although I would prefer to start with something easy everyone can contribute without being domain expert.
GavriilaDmitriev (
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14:12, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I take that back since I was accused of being WP:PAID for Zabbix.inc GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:26, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi all! As You are probably all too aware, FOSS articles rely too heavily on references to self-published or user-generated sources – those being patch notes, blog posts, git repos, project wikis, etc. Having that in mind, I was saving for myself those websites that seemed to do a quality job at reporting on FOSS. Over time it became a nice list so I share it with You here, in my user space!
Take a look if You want, share other findings, help weed out sources that I mistakenly took for reliable!
It would be cool to curate an index of valuable sources as they seem to be somewhat scarce for FOSS (outside of routine reporting). Such a list could then become semi-official for this Task Force. Opinions? — K4rolB ( talk) 16:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Dexxor (
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18:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)I went through our complete WT:FOSS Participants list and checked everyone for their activity on WP. I moved those who haven't been active on WP for roughly 6 months or longer. This should be safe enough to determine if someone is active. Some of those accounts are either already retired or in one case was already banned and in another case the only action of that whole account was to join WT:FOSS. The current members can be split into 3 categories:
I plan to send each of the latter 1/3 a new
invitation to invite them to be either active in the group or to engage more on FOSS topics.
For now that should be sufficient to have a reliable member list and to try to show that we are more active now again. It is not planned to do any further steps on this matter for now. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 10:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I think Red Hat Summits (which are important events with important key events for open source and software overall) need to be added to Wikipedia as detailed pages. -- Comrade-yutyo ( talk) 12:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
VeraCrypt is a fork of the non-free TrueCrypt. This doesn't seem to register with one editor. I would appreciate your opinion at Talk:VeraCrypt#Licensing_of_VeraCrypt. Thank you. -- Palosirkka ( talk) 10:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in the proposed move of OpenSearch (software) to OpenSearch and OpenSearch to OpenSearch (syndication); see discussion. -- Macrakis ( talk) 13:47, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
The most reliable site I found was dark.fail, but I need help categorizing and adding links to those sites in the List of onion sites article. Greatder ( talk) 13:54, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Link: List of Tor onion services Greatder ( talk) 09:15, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Community building is hard. There are a lot of people who care and engage in FOSS topics but there is no way to interact with each other besides of posting on each other talk pages which is rather unpersonal.
To enable us to talk to each other and discuss the direction of WP:FOSS we can use IRC as chat platform.
Click here for the official manual for using IRC for Wikipedia
Here in short where to find us:
Server host | irc.libera.chat |
Port | 6697 |
channel | #wikipedia-en-software |
quick access | https://web.libera.chat/?#wikipedia-en-software |
We are sharing the same IRC with our mother group since IRC is pretty inactive anyway.
Feel free to join! GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 09:16, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
The problem with IRC is there's no async communication. If someone answers or talks while I am offline, I can't access those talks. Unless you have archives, do you? Greatder ( talk) 08:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi everybody, I love the commotion here :D
I firmly believe that in order to make our work and time spent here most impactful, we need to be able todetermine which are the most vital articles. This is where our importance/quality table comes into place. This is IMHO correct and widely used approach, but we miss a cohesive way to grade articles. Our mother-WikiProject, Software, provides a nice writeup, but the importance part I believe to be inadequate, as FOSS is not only software but also a social movement with history, ideas, etc. so more of a social science.
So, in order for us to be on same page while making assessments – based on this, and other importance scales I've found on WP – I propose our own scale, and ask for discussion: User:K4rolB/sandbox2 – K4rolB ( talk) 19:26, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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20:11, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Here is my current suggestion to implement a new assessment system: User:GavriilaDmitriev/FOSS_assessment
Improvements and criticism on the proposal itself please here
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 16:13, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
While having the discussion about having a common understanding of what importance means for us as WP:FOSS I would suggest this example exercise:
Here we see our table of article assessments.
Right now I just want to talk about the List category. We have these tagged entries there:
Quality | Top | High | Medium | Low | ??? | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
List | 0 | 7 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 54 |
Everyone can click on the number of these entries and see a listing of listings like here and think how much they agree with the current sorting and how they would make it different. I have chosen Lists due to their low sample size. After doing that, I recommend to read these examples and suggestions on how those lists should be assessed:
After doing that I think everyone should be better able to contribute to a discussion about this matter GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 12:51, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
@ Kvng: Can you make a AfC page here? I have quite a lot of Draft that I think will be improved from attention here.(See my Tasks subpage#Drafts) Greatder ( talk) 07:58, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
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There is a content dispute on the GNU article -the problem is basically where and how to put the current usability status of GNU in the article lead. There is a long discussion between me and User:Yworo on the talk page about that and it seems we're unable to reach a compromise. Expert attention would help. Thanks. -- Cyclopia talk 23:41, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi all, I requested adding a "forks" field to the template, but I was told that consensus is required. Since I think this field would mostly (though not exclusively) useful to free software, I'm asking here. I don't know if it's better to discuss here or (likely) on the template talk page, I'll keep an eye on both anyway. Thanks! Balabiot ( talk) 22:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you might be interested in my suggestion for a new subcategory of KDE here. -- Schuhpuppe ( talk) 01:41, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, I've just joined this WikiProject. I'm working on bring Perl back to good article status — I'd like to get it all the way up to featured. Feedback on the article (and the spinoff, Perl language structure) is welcome. Feezo (Talk) 00:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Beerware, an article that would seem to fall under this project's purview, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beerware. I'd like to invite the experts here to either comment on the debate, or perhaps to improve the article to address concerns. -- RoninBK T C 06:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GNU/Linux naming controversy. - Ahunt ( talk) 12:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
let's start making some softwre testing tools writing test plans, writing test cases, Writing Test Suites, writing defects — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.147.19.21 ( talk) 19:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I've proposed the creation of WikiProject Gnome. Please comment. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:08, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I think this page should be taken into scope of WikiProject Free Software. Though it is currently in AfD process, I hope it will survive, and then can be rated and tagged. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 12:24, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
User:WhatisFeelings? has nominated Mozilla Firefox for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. WhatisFeelings? ( talk) 04:50, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I have noticed that there are two pages ( LLVM and Low Level Virtual Machine) that are almost the same article. It looks as as if someone who didn't know how to move articles copied and pasted one article into the other. Unfortunately, no one nipped it in the bud, so they are slightly different, so making one redirect to the other would result in lost information. I have tagged the articles requesting that LLVM be merged into Low Level Virtual Machine, and normally I would do the merge myself, but I know absolutely nothing about this subject, it would be better for someone in a project that supports the article could do it. Could some member of this project do the merge for me? Thanks and happy editing! pluma ♫ ♯ 18:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I just heard about this software on tv which is used by the Pirate Party Germany but didn't find an article in En.Wikipedia. I found one reference at Schulze Method. And a full article at this Google translated German wikipedia page. I don't know enough about software to do it, but maybe someone here does. Thanks! CarolMooreDC 21:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs article was nominated for GA review (at WP:GAN#COMP). Comments (and the review itself) are welcome! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi folks,
We have the following categories:
There's no need for the second and third categories. Free software and open source software are synonyms; while it's true that not all FSF-approved licences are OSI-approved (and vice versa), that's the function of the FSF-approved and OSI-approved subcategories.
Is there something I've missed or should the second and third categories be deleted? -- Sanglorian ( talk) 20:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC) (moved from archive talk page by KarlB)
Hello WikiProject Software/Free Software! The Firefox article is really outdated and in need of repair. It would be great if we could put together a team to help maintain it - or at least bring it up to date. Thanks ҭᴙᴇᴡӌӌ 15:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
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I have started an RFC at Talk:Ubuntu (operating system)#Ubuntu as "Adware". Please join the discussion there. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if this is miscategorized, but I felt that the next-gen may have Free Software implications, and felt that the users here would be technologically minded, if this is off the mark I apologize. I'm looking for additional outside opinions into the inclusion or exclusion of Video Game Consoles into the 8th Generation article. I have started a new section here and am requesting outside comment. Talk:History_of_video_game_consoles_(eighth_generation)#.22We_need_hardware_comparisons.22. Thank you. - Kai445 ( talk) 07:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
The article is here. And I was hoping people could help me expand it because it is a stub right now. I believe this article can become a g.a. in the very least because of the popularity of this app. For example, the number of review in the app store are 314801 Ratings, while something like Google Earth has 440890 Ratings. So it has the same order of magnitude number of reviews as Google Earth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quacod ( talk • contribs) 03:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As Chakra_(operating_system) is noted on its talk page as being within the scope of WikiProject Free Software, I would like to offer folks an opportunity to voice their opinions on an ongoing thread at Talk:Chakra_(operating_system)#Regarding_notability_tag....
Thanks in advance for your time and attention,
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 00:15, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Everyone: several of us have been talking about starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Open, which would support the improvement of topics like open educational resources, open access, and free/open source software. Please join us this Thursday for a planning discussion! Or add your ideas to the page or talk page. - Pete ( talk) 18:19, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
I've nominated OpenOffice.org for feature. Uninvolved reviewers for FAC would be most welcome. Or, if you haven't time for that, just looking over the article would be good :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 09:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
Surveillance awareness day is a proposal for the English Wikipedia to take special steps to promote awareness of global surveillance on February 11, 2014. That date is chosen to coincide with similar actions being taken by organizations such as Mozilla, Reddit, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Feedback from members of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. Please come join us as we brainstorm, polish, and present this proposal to the Wikipedia Community. -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 12:18, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a major need for categorizing academic tools as free or proprietary. For instance, List of academic databases and search engines only tells you if the service is charged for, not whether the software or data is copyleft.
Major tools like CiteSeerX, CrossRef, CiteULike, and Citebase have no info of this sort, or have something ambiguous, not in an infobox. Some FOSS topics like OAI-PMH are also not well-covered.
Information on the openness of publishers would also be very useful; some are brilliant at making data available and using open standards, others less so.
Scientists still mostly, albiet unwillingly, use a lot of closed-source software. Making this sort of information easily available would help in key areas that would make science more open.
Is there anyone with a good knowledge of FOSS licensing who would be willing to take on one of these three tasks (fixing the list, fixing the page infoboxes, adding info to publisher's pages)? Does anyone have other urgent tasks in this category?
HLHJ ( talk) 20:47, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Contributions are welcome at an ongoing discussion at Talk:List of formerly proprietary software#Photoshop and Talk:List of formerly proprietary software#Non-commercial software on this list concerning the inclusion criteria for the list. (Note that someone changed the criteria stated in the article itself while the discussion was ongoing, so please consider each version.) — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
There is a dispute on the notability of CC Pdfconverter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC_PDF_Converter. What makes opensource freeware notable? 1.114.13.44 ( talk) 08:29, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
This is a notice about Category:Software/Free Software articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 03:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Articles related to mobile software such as Mobile computing, Mobile application development, History of the iPhone... don't make any mention about app markets and digital rights management on mobile platforms. Only Tablet computer includes a one-sentence reference to walled gardens.
Is there an article that can be linked from those which covers the criticism against the iPad for introducing this model to personal computing, the initial boost to Android for being open source, the current attempts of Google to move the platform back to a closed source userland, and the movement to build free ROMs? Diego ( talk) 18:21, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
There is a new proposal for a grant proposal for for an offline mediawiki sync using xml. I met the wikem guys at a Houston conference where I work at Chevron and it is really exciting what the guys at WikEM.org are working on. The wikipedia community should contribute their opinion on this grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Offline_MediaWiki_search_for_NASA_and_Medicine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.18.226.225 ( talk) 02:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
I am currently having a bit of a hard time starting an Open Lighting Project page. I would like to add Open Lighting Project under the Free Software categories. Do I need to just add the template and fulfill the guidelines? Nightrune 00:39, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi all! The instructions of writing a new wiki article are somewhat overwhelming, so I'd rather discuss this first before trying anything.
First and foremost, as I'm part of the developer team for picoTCP there is a conflict of interest. Though, my intentions are ini no means commercially related: I'd like for any engineer to have the full overview of what solution are out there. Would someone be interested to guide me in this endeavor? Would it be OK to start with a minimal page and then further expand it with new information in the future?
Looking forward to your reply! Toonpeters ( talk) 12:25, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I hope this is the right place to point FOSS interested people to the deletion discussion about the Bareos article: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bareos Gul.maikat ( talk) 12:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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I couldn't figure out what licence Dropbox Paper is released with, or is it offered as a 'service' only without source code download? -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:52, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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The discussion is at Talk:Apache OpenOffice. -- Entalpia2 ( talk) 21:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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free and open-source software clarifies the scope of the project, and would make a more suitable name. This WikiProject would remain a subdivision of
WikiProject Software despite the simplification of its page title. —
Newslinger
talk 07:45, 23 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting.
SITH
(talk) 12:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. —usernamekiran
(talk)
10:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
As GNOME and KDE are major free and open-source software projects, I propose to merge the inactive WikiProject GNOME and WikiProject KDE into the currently active free and open-source software task force. — Newslinger talk 01:21, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I am uncertain, if this is the right place to ask you for this, so please redirect me if I am wrong here. I created the FOSS Draft:Eclipse Theia ( /info/en/?search=Draft:Eclipse_Theia) and would like to get a review. It has already been rejected a couple of times and I am trying to improve the article. Thanks in advance ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:43, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Newslinger, thank you very much for your detailed review. It helps me a lot, getting a feeling for the sources. It is a good advise to add the information about Theia to the existing article of Eclipse Foundation. Unfortunately it doesn't have a section with a list of existing project and it feels a bit out of place to just add Theia there, don't you think so? I did some more research and found the following source. Would any of them work as a reliable source? 1. https://sylvainleroy.com/2018/05/07/top3-self-hosted-cloud-ide-2018/
2. https://alternativeto.net/software/theia/
4. https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
Thanks for your help! ChristinFrohne ( talk) 12:26, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
wow! thank you so much for your engagement and help! Let's see what kind of feedback the others have :) ChristinFrohne ( talk) 06:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
oh and one comment: source no. 15 from your list covers the topic about Theia actually quite well, in my opinion. The whole article is about Eclipse Che changing its development environment to Theia. It is mentioned in the sub headline. So maybe that source can then also state its notability? ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:30, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Newslinger, thank you so much for your help and the copyedit! Awesome that the article is published now! I will keep your edits in mind when I will work on an other article. It's simpler and easier to understand now for everybody, awesome :) ChristinFrohne ( talk) 07:53, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of LWN.net (formerly Linux Weekly News) at the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § LWN.net for Draft:NumWorks. Thanks! — Newslinger talk 02:45, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Since the free and open-source software task force is no longer a WikiProject, I've proposed to merge our old WikiProject banner, {{ WikiProject Free and open-source software}}, into {{ WikiProject Computing}}. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 30 § Template:WikiProject Free and open-source software. — Newslinger talk 08:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of SitePoint on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § SitePoint for Grav (CMS). — Newslinger talk 22:48, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of Hacker Noon ( hackernoon.com) and InfoSec Handbook ( infosec-handbook.eu). If you're interested, please participate at WP:RSN § Hacker Noon (hackernoon.com) and InfoSec Handbook (infosec-handbook.eu) for /e/ (operating system). — Newslinger talk 03:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
There is a request for comment on the reliability of Liliputing ( liliputing.com) on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § RfC: Liliputing. — Newslinger talk 20:43, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Newly created article that might not be notable per WP:GNG or WP:PRODUCT. There may be specific notability guidelines for software, so I was wondering if someone could take a look at this and assess it. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 00:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, the article just describes the German case. Please add information about the linx tax regulations of Spain, the European Union and Canada. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 19:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
This article was originally accepted and quickly tagged AfD for failure to meet GNG and NSOFT. The argument got quite heated, and it's clear that as an employee of Containous (the creators of Traefik) that I have entirely way too much COI to be submitting this to AfC again. I've edited the Draft to the point where I feel it's quite nuetral, and includes what I consider sources which meet GNG, however, these sources were rejected by those who commented in the AfD as "manuals or tutorials" so they didn't count (even though these are published books, from trusted sources, that include Traefik as more than passing mentions, and there are reviews of the software, which I have now cited in the Draft).
I'd really appreciate feedback as to next steps and if anyone here feels comfortable with taking over from this point. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Kcmastrpc ( talk) 17:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
It looks like the editor who accepted the article originally has declined the AfC, stating the sources don't meet WP:GNG. I've referenced multiple independent articles and publishers who cover this software in-depth, so I'm not sure what else I can do here. Any additional assistance is appreciated. — Kcmastrpc ( talk) 16:53, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to write an article on a fork of Vuze (which itself is no longer developed), but due to previous activity of people affiliated with the project (e.g. posting things which looked very promotional), the bar to jump over is now a bit high for me and I need help with this article.
It would be great if more people had a look and helped.
Thanks!
Andrej Shadura ( talk) 08:17, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
All of this below is my personal opinion and a matter of commentary and critique. All of this can be only achieved by collaboration.
This post is inspired by a recent talks started by Abuluntu ( talk · contribs) with one of the proposals was merging WikiProject Linux into FOSS task force. All in all, I would be in favor of this, as the project seems dead. Regardless, I see a danger in the trend of losing free-software-related projects on WP:
And it's not happening because FOSS task force is blobbing – no, it seems just as quiet and nearly as deserted as the rest. Take a look at the main page: issues from todo list are mostly from 2006 and 2007. The page is actually rather well structured, so this may be why remaining people flock to it. What I'm afraid of is, if things progress, there will be no centralized point to gather around the issues of related articles. And *there are* issues:
This is not a comprehensive list, or you may even disagree with points already written, but the issue is, all of this will not go away without some steering.
The Free and open-source software task force needs to reinvent itself.
It needs new participants and in order to get them, it must become a more social experience and must provide more guidance for interested users. It should encourage more participation and become a hub for new users, where they feel welcome to ask questions and participate in work.
All your ideas are welcome, this are a few mine, noted while looking at successful WikiProjects:
— K4rolB ( talk) 21:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Because of nearly no activity on the talk page of WikiProject Linux I have started a discussion to join forces with this task force. Is that a good idea? – Abuluntu ( talk 12:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Suggestion
Hi everyone, I would like to get feedback on the suggestion of moving the page Parse_(platform) to Parse,_Inc.. The reason is the lack of disambiguation between the dissolved company Parse, Inc. and the active open-source project Parse Platform. The current article primarily describes the company history, but uses the open-source project name as the article title, easily creating confusion for readers. To address this, the proposed change is to move the article to Parse,_Inc.. This is analogous to the distinction between the company Facebook,_Inc. and the product Facebook, or the company Google and the product Firebase. I opened a move request in the past, but it seems to have expired without conclusion due to lack of participation. I am hoping that an admin (maybe Deepfriedokra) can advice on how to best approach this, or even approve the move. Should I just open another move request? COI disclosure: I am a member of Parse Platform. However I want to explicitly mention that this is not a promotional suggestion but intended to improve the article quality for readers. ManuelTrezza ( talk) 13:07, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm rather new as an editor to Wikpedia and I'm focusing on software/FOSS articles. I'm glad this Wikiproject already exists although there have been no recent activity on this talk page here. Could we make a short roll call to see who is currently watching here and being active whilst also having the possbility to get to know each other? I'm always on on IRC in #wikipedia-en - don't be shy to say hello GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 01:09, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
I was categorizing the leftover C-level unclassified FOSS articles by importance and struggled with just one. I would like to ask and discuss of the impotance of InterPlanetary_File_System to WT:FOSS. It is a protocol and network and not an application. I would have rated it High. But if I account that it's not an application it might be even a low or sohuld be excluded. You can find the place to rate it on top of Talk:InterPlanetary_File_System
My questions:
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 17:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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20:03, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Done. Tagged as low. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 22:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Here's some draft I have been working on:
Help appreciated Greatder ( talk) 06:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Note:
Discussion was continued here
I found it rather hard to find information on Github as an reliable source. For this reason I asked on Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Github_as_reliable_source_for_software_topics for some clarification. While I am aware that it can depend on each case if Github might be a reliable source, it is often factual while not being original research. But independently of what I am thinking it would help to have Github (or other source control software like Gitlab, Bitbucket) somewhere mentioned in the Wikipedia help articles for other people to read up on it. What is consensus here on this Project? GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 01:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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15:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
User:Beetstra has IMHO rightfully triggered the deletion of the Zabbix article.
I consider the topic a rather easy exercise for a small joint task force effort since the product itself is old, well known and still in a quite widespread use. I would suggest after it's likely deletion that we rebuild it with an updated POV which is more balanced which includes that it's mostly superseeded by more modern and secure software.
This is less about the importance of Zabbix itself than a community building action to see who is currently active and if we can do something together. I'm also open for different topics to work upon - although I would prefer to start with something easy everyone can contribute without being domain expert.
GavriilaDmitriev (
talk)
14:12, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
I take that back since I was accused of being WP:PAID for Zabbix.inc GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:26, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi all! As You are probably all too aware, FOSS articles rely too heavily on references to self-published or user-generated sources – those being patch notes, blog posts, git repos, project wikis, etc. Having that in mind, I was saving for myself those websites that seemed to do a quality job at reporting on FOSS. Over time it became a nice list so I share it with You here, in my user space!
Take a look if You want, share other findings, help weed out sources that I mistakenly took for reliable!
It would be cool to curate an index of valuable sources as they seem to be somewhat scarce for FOSS (outside of routine reporting). Such a list could then become semi-official for this Task Force. Opinions? — K4rolB ( talk) 16:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
fo
). Then you can perform searches by typing fo your query
in the address bar."exact match"
or before:2021
.
Dexxor (
talk)
18:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)I went through our complete WT:FOSS Participants list and checked everyone for their activity on WP. I moved those who haven't been active on WP for roughly 6 months or longer. This should be safe enough to determine if someone is active. Some of those accounts are either already retired or in one case was already banned and in another case the only action of that whole account was to join WT:FOSS. The current members can be split into 3 categories:
I plan to send each of the latter 1/3 a new
invitation to invite them to be either active in the group or to engage more on FOSS topics.
For now that should be sufficient to have a reliable member list and to try to show that we are more active now again. It is not planned to do any further steps on this matter for now. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk) 10:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I think Red Hat Summits (which are important events with important key events for open source and software overall) need to be added to Wikipedia as detailed pages. -- Comrade-yutyo ( talk) 12:12, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
VeraCrypt is a fork of the non-free TrueCrypt. This doesn't seem to register with one editor. I would appreciate your opinion at Talk:VeraCrypt#Licensing_of_VeraCrypt. Thank you. -- Palosirkka ( talk) 10:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in the proposed move of OpenSearch (software) to OpenSearch and OpenSearch to OpenSearch (syndication); see discussion. -- Macrakis ( talk) 13:47, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
The most reliable site I found was dark.fail, but I need help categorizing and adding links to those sites in the List of onion sites article. Greatder ( talk) 13:54, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Link: List of Tor onion services Greatder ( talk) 09:15, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Community building is hard. There are a lot of people who care and engage in FOSS topics but there is no way to interact with each other besides of posting on each other talk pages which is rather unpersonal.
To enable us to talk to each other and discuss the direction of WP:FOSS we can use IRC as chat platform.
Click here for the official manual for using IRC for Wikipedia
Here in short where to find us:
Server host | irc.libera.chat |
Port | 6697 |
channel | #wikipedia-en-software |
quick access | https://web.libera.chat/?#wikipedia-en-software |
We are sharing the same IRC with our mother group since IRC is pretty inactive anyway.
Feel free to join! GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 09:16, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
The problem with IRC is there's no async communication. If someone answers or talks while I am offline, I can't access those talks. Unless you have archives, do you? Greatder ( talk) 08:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi everybody, I love the commotion here :D
I firmly believe that in order to make our work and time spent here most impactful, we need to be able todetermine which are the most vital articles. This is where our importance/quality table comes into place. This is IMHO correct and widely used approach, but we miss a cohesive way to grade articles. Our mother-WikiProject, Software, provides a nice writeup, but the importance part I believe to be inadequate, as FOSS is not only software but also a social movement with history, ideas, etc. so more of a social science.
So, in order for us to be on same page while making assessments – based on this, and other importance scales I've found on WP – I propose our own scale, and ask for discussion: User:K4rolB/sandbox2 – K4rolB ( talk) 19:26, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
Daveout
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20:11, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Here is my current suggestion to implement a new assessment system: User:GavriilaDmitriev/FOSS_assessment
Improvements and criticism on the proposal itself please here
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 16:13, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
While having the discussion about having a common understanding of what importance means for us as WP:FOSS I would suggest this example exercise:
Here we see our table of article assessments.
Right now I just want to talk about the List category. We have these tagged entries there:
Quality | Top | High | Medium | Low | ??? | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
List | 0 | 7 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 54 |
Everyone can click on the number of these entries and see a listing of listings like here and think how much they agree with the current sorting and how they would make it different. I have chosen Lists due to their low sample size. After doing that, I recommend to read these examples and suggestions on how those lists should be assessed:
After doing that I think everyone should be better able to contribute to a discussion about this matter GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 12:51, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
@ Kvng: Can you make a AfC page here? I have quite a lot of Draft that I think will be improved from attention here.(See my Tasks subpage#Drafts) Greatder ( talk) 07:58, 19 August 2022 (UTC)