6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
3:12 a.m.
On Saturday, 6 June 2009 at 9:30:40 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:40:00PM -0400, Jason
Stevens wrote:
This is an excellent idea. Count me in, and count a vote for
Mediawiki while you're at it.
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? 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.
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense.
On the other, part of the advantage of things like Wikipedia is that
everything's in one place. I honestly don't see the TUHS people being
active enough to produce anywhere like as much material as is already
present on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has various "projects" which concern themselves with certain
subtopics (or they had them; looking at various pages, I can no longer
see any hints). Does anybody know more details? If we could find a
way to get a few knowledgeable, active people to ensure the
consistency and accuracy of UNIX-related articles, that could be a
better approach.
Greg
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