contributing free software knowledge to Wikipedia

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Sat Dec 31 18:30:05 UTC 2005


There's now a free software portal on English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software

Wikipedia has a lot of great articles about free software, but it also has
gaps, and confusions about free software (and open source, GNU, Linux,
copyleft, etc.) that are common in society are present in some corners of
Wikipedia too.

The goals of the free software portal are to provide a starting point for
people reading about free software, and to highlight areas where people who
would like to contribute are needed.  ...and the portal itself needs
contributors and suggestions.

Free software portals on the French and German Wikipedia's have existed for
a while:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Logiciels_libres
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Freie_Software

(The other languages are still waiting for someone to start one.)

Happy New Year's Parties!

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