After the free software movement, Wikipedia has to be my favourite computer-enabled community project. It does a first rate job of getting computer users involved, it’s articles can be freely copied and modified, and it has lots of useful info. Since I blogged about it last year, English Wikipedia’s Free Software Portal has continued to Read more »
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 Read more »
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 Read more »