 | The following is a proposed Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
Preface edit
This proposal agrees and don't aim to conflict with
Current problem edit
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:
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 edit
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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion due to maintainer struggle to find secondary sources or because no one supports them and it ends up in a Wikipedia: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 edit
- 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?
Importance scale edit
| Importance | Criteria | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Top | - Handpicked topics by FOSS Task Force | |
| High | - New FOSS projects in recent use but struggle with secondary sources but have a chance to fulfill Wikipedia:Notability
- Lists and comparisons of FOSS |
- Nitter, Freetube, Pixelfed, Invidious
- List of password managers, List of free and open-source software packages |
| Mid | - FOSS in widespread use but superseeded by newer FOSS projects
- Topics which are suited to promote FOSS ideas |
- Zabbix, OpenOffice.org
- Richard Stallman, Chromium (web browser), Android Open Source Project |
| Low | - Well established articles, usually already high or mid quality
- FOSS of mostly historical relevance (includes unmaintained software) or changed to closed source |
- Ubuntu, Copyleft, Plan 9 from Bell Labs |