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Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status

These below tasks are to improve the portal, hopefully to get it to Featured portal status. For tasks related to improving wikipedia's free software articles, see Portal:Free software/Contribute.

  1. Add images to the portal, but no "fair use" images, they're not allowed on portals (they're only allowed on articles). Suggestions are at #All images removed - advice sought
  2. Replace the "selected articles" box with something that includes selected articles plus news. Suggestions are at #Add "news" and fold in "selected article"
  3. Add references to History of free software - since it's linked to from the portal intro
Former featured portal candidateThis portal is a former featured portal candidate. Please see the links under Portal milestones below for its original nomination page and why the nomination failed.
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DateProcessResult
June 10, 2006Featured portal candidateNot promoted
February 8, 2007Peer reviewReviewed
May 17, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
Current status: Former featured portal candidate

re. Usage of "free" in relation to software

It sounds like the word "free" needs to be a or and break out its application. 107.190.207.144 (talk) 07:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)John Bennett107.190.207.144 (talk) 07:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Portal:Open-source software should be deleted / merged into here

Portal:Open-source software is redundant given this portal and should be deleted. Normally I'd say it should be merged into here but there's almost no content in it that could be merged - and it also doesn't have a talk page. The deletion discussion can be found here: Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Open-source software.

--Fixuture (talk) 20:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Agree! --Monochrome_Monitor 20:01, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

GamingOnLinux deletion

GamingOnLinux was deleted. *sigh* Shaddim (talk) 21:48, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

TripleA on deletion

Long running and successful open source clone TripleA is voted for deletion. Please help provide sources and references for the disucssion. thanks Shaddim (talk)

case close, kept, thanks for contributions. The article could still need some love in exppansion, though. Shaddim (talk) 08:47, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Robocode

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Robocode&oldid=637979357 I would like to restore this page, as it is quite popular (https://sourceforge.net/projects/robocode/files/stats/timeline?dates=2000-05-12+to+2017-05-18 1 million downloads) and I believe notable. Someone want to help me finding more good reliable secondary sources ? Shaddim (talk) 00:28, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Linux Game tome

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=The_Linux_Game_Tome&oldid=745063278 Maybe revivable with more sources... Shaddim (talk) 19:04, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Neverball / neverputt

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Neverball&oldid=623005433 revivable? Shaddim (talk) 21:13, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

infobox video games

I try to start a discussion to add (re-add?) fields from the general software infobox which would also (or especially) FOSS games, e.g. license and more differentiated release model. Shaddim (talk) 13:14, 18 May 2017 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/Template_talk:Infobox_video_game

It seems the general software infobox is better suited for our needs. Shaddim (talk) 11:47, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

ardentryst

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Ardentryst&action=edit&redlink=1 revivable? Shaddim (talk) 18:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC) hotpick linuxformat https://archive.org/stream/Linux_Format_120_July_2009/#page/n71/mode/2up/search/hotgames page 73

Red eclipse

I'm still think red eclipse should be revived... some more material for that.

Shaddim (talk) 11:47, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Freeorion

FreeOrion was created and deleted already multiple times (https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/FreeOrion), yet, I think with at least 700,000 downloads and broad recpetion it should have an article. Shaddim (talk) 15:43, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Ultimate stunts

Exult

reliable refs:


notes

  1. ambiguity of free vs freely licensed, etc
  2. O'Kelly, Jackie, and J. Paul Gibson. "RoboCode & problem-based learning: a non-prescriptive approach to teaching programming." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 38, no. 3 (2006): 217-221.

Logo is missed

The logo was used for this portal is missed, I don't know how to import it, the logo is this:

commons:File:Free and open-source software logo (2009).svg

Editor-1 (talk) 13:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your questino but we can use material from the commons just fine:  ?!? Shaddim (talk) 23:23, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

No, the logo must be appears within the articles, see: GNOME#See also

Editor-1 (talk) 05:54, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

I saw to portal:Linux and did this changes:

edit#2

But the problem is not resolved, it seems the portal main page is not sync with Portal:Free and open-source software/Introduction. Editor-1 (talk) 06:19, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

a server cache "purge" was needed. :) Shaddim (talk) 11:21, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
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