Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Free and open-source software task force

Welcome to the free and open-source software task force, a project devoted to creating, improving, and maintaining articles related to free and open-source software (FOSS), and bringing them to good or featured article status. The scope of this project extends to articles about:
 * free and open-source software programs
 * FOSS operating systems (Linux-based, BSD-based, and others)
 * websites for and about FOSS software and community
 * organizations, such as the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, and the Open Source Initiative
 * people, such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Keith Bostic

Always remember to follow Wikipedia conventions, and to be bold!

The FOSS task force is supported by WikiProject Software and WikiProject Computing.

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Verify the bare minimum
Each article about a free and open-source software project should:
 * 1) Contain a link to the Free and open-source software portal:
 * 2) * add  to the "See also" section or the last section of prose in the article body.
 * 3) * Alternatively, add  to the bottom of the page.
 * 4) Mention that it is free and open-source software in the opening paragraph, preferably in the first sentence
 * 5) Describe the free software licenses used by the project, preferably in the infobox, with a citation to the project's license
 * 6) Use citation needed to tag any unverified statements

Complete tasks on to-do list
Those tasks are the backlog of issues found by other task force members.

Add references
Make sure that your source meets the criteria for reliable sources, especially that they are not  self-published (personal blogs, forums, etc.). This project develops its own list of useful, reliable sources and a custom search engine. Feel free to audit and improve the list with other reliable sources you can find.

Improve article links
Many articles containing phrases such as "free software licence" or "free software community", when it is usually better to link to "free software licence" and "free software community" instead of the main free software article. }}
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Participants
If you wish to join the project, please add your name to the list with:




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 * 09:48, 06 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 00:18, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * 14:11, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 23:16, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 05:06, 9 February 2024 (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.

Articles
To tag an article as a FOSS article, please add the following to the top of its talk page:

This produces the following banner:

The banner adds the talk page to Category:WikiProject Free and open-source software articles.

Userbox
The FOSS task force userbox is transcluded by using, which yields:

Invitation
To invite a user to the FOSS task force, use, which displays:

Use to include a section heading before the message.

The Assessment department will focus on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's FOSS-related articles. This will aid us in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Stub-, Start-, and B-class assessments can be made by every editor (although generally you should not assess an article on which you have had a major influence). A-class assessment is made within this project, while Good Article and Feature Article assessments require formal review procedures outside of this project.

Assessment should be conducted following these guidelines.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Software
 * WikiProject Computing

Categories

 * Category:WikiProject Free Software articles, a list of articles under this project
 * Special:Whatlinkshere/Portal:Free and open-source software, a general list of FOSS-related articles
 * Category:Free software, the top-level category of free software articles