WikiProject Free Software launches on Wikipedia
ciaran
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Monday 05 March 2007
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On
Wikipedia, WikiProject Free
Software has launched. The goals are to raise the quality of
existing free software articles and to fill in any information gaps about
the topic. It's a new initiative and hasn't yet built up much
momentum, so I thought I'd mention here where it some free software
savvy people might see it and be interested in helping.
It's
over a
year since I wrote about Wikipedia. That was for the launch of
English
Wikipedia's Free
Software Portal. When that portal launched, there were already
corresponding portals
on German
Wikipedia
and French
Wikipedia.
Now, there are also free software portals in the
Wikipedia's
of Arabic,
Czech,
Danish,
Spanish,
Russian,
and Chinese.
The idea of portals is that for a given topic, they are a better
"front door" through which people can enter Wikipedia's
related content.
Some interesting topics that could be better, IMO, include:
Actually, the licences article is pretty good, but it's
a great topic, so more review and contribution would still be good.
--
Ciarán O'Riordan,
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