User:GavriilaDmitriev/FOSS assessment

Preface
This proposal agrees and don't aim to conflict with


 * Advocacy
 * Neutral point of view
 * Notability

Current problem
Currently big articles are getting optimized further from multiple Wiki Projects since all use the same guidelines.

Example: The article Linux is an article interest from 7 different Wiki Projects (including us).

Currently these articles are part of our Top importance list:
 * Linus Torvalds
 * Ubuntu
 * Firefox
 * Android (operating system)
 * Copyright

I don't think that we are able to contribute a significant effect if we consider those articles as Top priority and work on those further.

Intention of a new FOSS assessment system
Prioritization based on need, support of FOSS and demand by the community. Bottom-up approach instead of pushing the dinosaurs further.

We should ask ourselves:


 * How important is this piece of software current in the FOSS space?
 * Does it gets recommended on popular listings as privacytools/privacyguides or so called awesome listings?
 * Can we prevent young FOSS articles fall victim Articles for deletion due to maintainer struggle to find secondary sources or because no one supports them and it ends up in a Conflict of interest
 * How can we align our work more with the needs of the FOSS community
 * Can we help someone who wants to use FOSS software to make the right decision?

Open Questions

 * How to ensure that all possible topics fall in one of the mentioned criteria?
 * How to ensure that articles not regularly fall into multiple criteria? E.g.: Richard Stallman falls into Low (due to well established article) and Mid (Stallman being an important figurehead for the FOSS community)
 * How to make publicly clear that this is according to the rules of Wikipedia mentioned in the preface?
 * Do we from the FOSS Task Force agree with the additional workload to reevaluate all currently FOSS related articles of almost 3000 articles?