ciaran
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Tuesday 13 May 2008
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about:
wikipedia
After the free software movement, Wikipedia has to be my favourite
computer-enabled community project. It does a first rate job of getting
computer users involved, it's articles can be freely copied and
modified, and it has lots of useful info.
Since I blogged about it last year, English
Wikipedia's Free
Software Portal has continued to improve. The
"Topics" and "Featured and Good content" boxes
on the portal are interesting, as
is the separate archive
of highlighted articles. There are now also Free
Software Portals on 15 of the Wikipedia's in other languages
(compared to 6 in March 2007). For the list, see the box at the bottom of
the left-hand column of the Portal.
As well as the articles having good info, the references sections at
the bottom of each article are very useful. I often dig around the
references when I'm looking for an old webpage or news article whose
title I can't remember.
Here is a list of some good free software articles. They're good, but
remember that you can improve them.
Of course, there are also plenty of articles that really should be
better, such as:
And interesting related articles:
And there are hundreds of articles on specific free software
packages: glibc, GCC, Emacs, OpenOffice.org, RockBox,
etc.
The coordination
WikiProject for Free Software is still there, but isn't used for
much.
--
Ciarán O'Riordan,
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