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• Software Wikia is a wiki specialised on software using semantic extras. If a nice article does not have the required Wikipedia:Notability, simply export it and ask an admin for an import there.
• WikiProject Free Software is now merged with WikiProject Software. The link to WikiProject Free Software is Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Free Software.
• To better serve Wikipedia, WikiProject Malware is now under the parent of WikiProject Computer Security. All Malware articles are currently being transferred over to the new project. In any case, you are welcome to join at WikiProject Computer Security!
• All members of WikiProject Software are urged to install the Centralized Announcement System on their talk page.
• I have changed the participant (members) table by replacing the Task column with Area of Expertise. I also introduced a new template based status system so as to "arrange" the members according to whether they are active, semi-active, inactive, or retired. Please update your entry accordingly.
• New IRC server! The old channel on Freenode is not used anymore. See See here. Manual for using IRC can be found here for why. Find us at:

Participants of this WikiProject can add this Userbox to their User page:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Software.

To add the Userbox insert the following to the your user page:

{{User WikiProject Software}}

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Software:

Software: Computing NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Software, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of software 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.SoftwareWikipedia:WikiProject SoftwareTemplate:WikiProject Softwaresoftware articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

To tag an article insert the following to the top of the discussion page of the article: {{WikiProject Software|class=|importance=}}

Stubs should additionally be tagged with {{software-stub}} at the bottom of the article.

Anyone can assess articles (regardless of membership to the WikiProject) by adding or editing the class and importance parameters to the {{WikiProject Software|class=|importance=|computing-importance=}} template. The template is found on talk pages.

Software articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1				1
FL				5			5
GA	1	8	13	29		14	65
B	24	78	121	128		125	476
C	29	176	581	1,346	1	596	2,729
Start	5	107	547	3,474	1	2,471	6,605
Stub		4	100	1,625	1	2,508	4,238
List	4	18	72	200	4	179	477
Draft					372		372
Category				1	2,241		2,242
Disambig			1	1	26		28
File					3,014		3,014
Portal					3		3
Project				1	24		25
Redirect	1	7	27	180	1,821		2,036
Template			3	1	1,150		1,154
Assessed	64	398	1,466	6,991	8,658	5,893	23,470
Unassessed			2	12	1	1,526	1,541
Total	64	398	1,468	7,003	8,659	7,419	25,011
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 70,959			Ω = 5.03

The quality scale is the WikiProject computing scale.

The B-Class criteria are: (1) referenced; (2) coverage; (3) structure; (4) grammar; (5) supporting materials; (6) accessible language.

One of the important activities of this project is to manage the list of Categories related to Computer Software.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Work on the tasks listed below. Photo : Category:Software articles needing images Stubs : Expand stub pages listed at Category:Software stubs Other : Draw in more participants; review software articles nominated for deletion

WikiProject Software to do list

• The following topics are missing an article; calling all enthusiasts to start these articles urgently. [Read the Talk page]
  • Gordian Knot (software), AutoGK, a bit obsolete, but still worth an article, or two (see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BeSweet)
  • Topaz Labs (software), photo editing software in the same vein as Photoshop or NIK software. The company has expanded and is used by many various fine art and photography professionals. www.topazlabs.com. Deserves an article.
  • (please feel free to add more)

• The following articles need some updating and cleanup (please feel free to add more):
  • BlueSpice for MediaWiki
  • Cabri Geometry, article too short but of significant importance
  • Defraggler
  • EmEditor, needs notability references, and general improvements
  • Ext4
  • Flowtracer
  • Google File System, tagged with {{Expert-subject|Software|date=November 2008}}
  • Home Assistant (seems to be consensus that this needs cleanup from uninvolved editors after its 2nd AfD, as of 2021-04-02)
  • Hypervisor, the PCs and desktop systems section needs attention
  • Jv16 powertools [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
  • KVIrc
  • Light (web browser), just created, it's decently written but still really short, and it's not part of this project yet
  • mdadm, mostly non-encyclopedic content (HOWTO/manual)
  • Micro Transport Protocol, widely used since uTorrent 2.0 released
  • Ntfsprogs
  • Norton 360
  • Recuva
  • Presentation Manager, requesting screenshot of GUI, also needs references
  • Program Information File
  • Software as a service
  • Windows library files
  • XNUMBERS
  • Zamzar
  • Zero Install, a bit confusing article, needs to be explained more clearly
  • Autodesk Media and Entertainment, major content deletion happened for cleanup on 17 March 2008 (11,000K to 2,000K), and now it's so outdated & stub-like it needs a total rebuild
  • List of web application frameworks, go through the articles of listed frameworks and nominate for deletion the non-notable ones, clean the list from non-notable ones, clean Template:Application frameworks
  • Aviary (application suite) Needs major updating, referencing, and clean up.
  • Scrumban article reads like a sales brochure and I don't have the subject knowledge to fix it.

• The following page lists articles that need expert attention from WikiProject Software and have been tagged by {{Expert-subject|Software}}:
  • Category:Software articles needing expert attention