discuss: Wikipedia articles on the LDP
Subject:
Wikipedia articles on the LDP
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jan 2002 02:19:20 -0000
Message-Id: <20020125031034.GA8388@lupercalia.net>
I want to start mirroring some relevant Wikipedia articles on the LDP.
While the LDP has a pretty good (and growing!) collection of HOWTOs
and Guides about the technical issues, we have very little content
about the larger concepts. These articles would help fill in the gaps.
And as a nice bonus, they are already all well maintained and getting
better every day. We have Wikipedia's blessing to use them.
I currently allow one to link to the Wikipedia from within a WikiText
document by using a link like [[wiki:Unix]].
In the output document you get a nice link to an article that will
help someone very new to Linux to understand what's being talked
about. That's a good thing.
Unfortunately, those links will be broken when the user is reading
local documentation without a network connection. So, I want to
include them in their own "Wikipedia" section within the LDP. I'd
probably put them under /wikipedia/ in the collection. Then the
[[wiki:foo]] link would go to the local copy.
I want to generate the pages from the Wiki source, not just download
the Wikipedia html, so we can "brand" it like the rest of the LDP
site, as long as we give good and proper and fair attribution to the
Wikipedia. And I also am going to leave in a link to the Wikipedia
site, where a reader can edit the article if they wish.
This seems like a good thing for both us and the Wikipedia. It took me
all of two hours to write some scripts that download the Wikipedia
tarball, search our WikiText for links to wiki articles, and convert
those documents into DocBook format with an arbitrary article header
crediting the Wikipedia.
If nobody has some kind of horrible objection to this, I would like to
start publishing these sometime in the next few weeks.
Here's a short list of a few that I consider appropriate:
Operating system
Open source
Free software
Linux operating system
Linux kernel
Linux distribution
Debian
Red Hat Linux
Mandrake Linux
Slackware
Conectiva
SuSE
Unix
Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Eric S. Raymond
GNU
Computer
Personal computer
Computer storage
RAM
Virtual memory
Computer networks
Computer security
--
David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and
oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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