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WikiProject Linux is an attempt at creating a community of Linux Wikipedians to maintain and write for Linux articles on Wikipedia. The aim of this project is to make sure that all Linux articles are kept up to date, cited, clean, factually accurate and NPOV. For our purposes, "Linux" includes the Linux OS and Linux distros, GNU coreutils, and of course the Linux Kernel. Applications that run on Linux may also fall within the scope.

Related projects are WikiProject Free Software and WikiProject Computing.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Linux. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Goals

  • To improve the quality and expand the range of Linux-related articles on Wikipedia.
  • To improve articles such that they would serve as useful to beginners and experts alike, by providing both simple and more technical descriptions.
  • To spread awareness of Linux, in a respectful and realistic manner, to other Wikipedians.

State of affairs

For now, we need to collaborate on getting the WikiProject organized and get a healthy set of articles/lists marked up with the Wikiproject template. In the future we plan to use this space to advertise a specific article that we want to get to see reach good article status.

The following is a list of current featured articles and good articles directly related to Linux:

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

Main page featured articles

In the News articles


Templates

Article Talk page template

On the talk pages of the articles that we are focusing on, please put in this template: {{WikiProject Linux}}. It should appear like this:

WikiProject iconLinux Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Linux, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Linux on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LinuxWikipedia:WikiProject LinuxTemplate:WikiProject LinuxLinux
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Please don't add this to articles we have not yet had an effect on. It frustrates some of the editors that have worked hard on the article in the first place.

Stub template

For Linux stub articles use the standard {{linux-stub}} or one of its sub-stub categories.

Stub icon

This Linux-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Userbox

For a userbox, use this: {{User WPLinux}}.

sfriThis user is a member of WikiProject Linux.

Article alerts

To watch: Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/Article alerts

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Categories

Categories
Supported Articles

For all articles under our wing, check the category, Category:WikiProject Linux articles.

Wikipedia Surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys:

Deletion links:


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