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 it and be interested in helping.
The WikiProject Free Software is definitely promising, and will definitely grow in the future.
It's over a year since I wrote about Wikipedia. That was for the launch of English Wikipedia's Free Software Portal. When that portal launched, there were already corresponding portals in German Wikipedia and French Wikipedia.
Now, there are also free software portals in the Wikipedia's of Arabic, Czech, Danish, Spanish, Indonesian, Russian, and Chinese. The idea of portals is that for a given topic, they are a better "front door" through which people can enter Wikipedia's related content.
Some interesting topics that could be better, IMO, include:
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Actually, the licences article is pretty good, but it's a great topic, so more review and contribution would still be good.
Ciarán O'Riordan, - Support free software: Join FSFE's Fellowship