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"The freeCodeCamp community's GitHub repository is the most-starred GitHub project by a wide margin.[8]"
While this is true, I think it stems partly from a call in the FreeCodeCamp curriculum to "go to GitHub and Star our repository" which was a little controversial and has since been removed. I'm not aware of any articles about this. I heard about it after the fact in the FCC forums. I think for me to make an edit based on that would be considered original research. But I think it's important in the context of evaluating the projects 'Reception'. -- Tdreid ( talk) 23:19, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
This page is currently only citing the subject itself, however, there sources all over the web that do not self-reference. Here are some:
I thought it might help to clarify the situation if I add that the two accounts most active in editing the article, Erictleung's and my own, are not employed by freeCodeCamp.
We wrote the article from a user perspective. We are both users of freeCodeCamp (and hence are not perfectly neutral sources, admittedly), but we aren't receiving money or any other kind of benefit from the organization. We're just users who think it might be valuable for other people to know about freeCodeCamp.
If it helps, I am not a rogue account trying to push a certain subject. I've been a regular contributor to the German Wikipedia for twelve years now. -- Jan Schreiber ( talk) 20:49, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Long overdue mention on this talk page by myself personally, but as @ Jan Schreiber: has mentioned above, I am one of the editors who has contributed a lot of changes to the freeCodeCamp page and just wanted to be transparent in my involvement with freeCodeCamp. Again to re-emphasize this fact, I nor many of the volunteers are not paid by freeCodeCamp to make edits to this page or contribute to the project itself.
I have recently started contributing to Wikipedia in general this past year ( Special:Contributions/Erictleung), where I've now contributed to topics related to computational biology. In terms of my involvement with freeCodeCamp as an organization, I've contributed to freeCodeCamp's 2016 new coder survey, their repository on how to contribute to open source, the main freeCodeCamp repository itself, a recent software tool to help generate correctly formatted git messages, and the 2017 new coder survey.
I aim to be as objective as possible when contributing edits to this page. If my edits seem biased in any way, feel free to reach out or make necessary changes yourself to make it objective and neutral in tone. Thanks! Erictleung ( talk) 01:25, 27 August 2017 (UTC)