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
next prev parent 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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