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From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix?
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:30:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:40:00PM -0400, Jason Stevens wrote:
> I don't know I may be just dreaming in the sense I figure I'd probably
> end up with something just as empty, but would people be willing to
> put forth some kind of wiki of antidotes of their usage of various
> Unix on platforms?

Jason's e-mail gave me an idea. There's a website somewhere where some
of the Mac developers captured anecdotes of the development of the Mac.
How about a wiki-like website for Unix, which is a combination of an
anecdote Wiki and a Wikipedia-for-Unix?

The site could capture stories, technical documentation, historical
summaries, usage tips etc. Where possible, articles would have citations,
but the site should allow the storage of primary documents too, e.g.
e-mails and old Usenet articles.

I'd suggest that editing isn't open to the general public, but either by
invitation or vetting. A group of people would be needed to watch out for
seriously bad articles/editing. At the same time, Unix history has been
very diverse and there has always been lots of opposing sub-groups, so
the site would need to be able to capture & deal with this diversity, as
would the people overseeing the site.

Comments?
	Warren



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05  3:48 [TUHS] UNIX turns forty Brian S Walden
2009-06-05  4:18 ` Larry McVoy
2009-06-05 11:42   ` Jim Capp
2009-06-05 14:40 ` John Cowan
2009-06-05 16:06   ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:29     ` John Cowan
2009-06-06  5:20       ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:40 ` Jason Stevens
2009-06-05 23:30   ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2009-06-05 23:39     ` [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? John Cowan
2009-06-06  0:17       ` Larry McVoy
2009-07-05  9:25       ` [TUHS] www.tuhs.org now a MediaWiki Warren Toomey
2009-07-05 17:28         ` Jim Capp
2009-06-05 23:50     ` [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? Al Kossow
2009-06-06  1:29     ` Jim Capp
2009-06-06  3:12     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2009-06-06  4:11       ` John Cowan

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