Talk:Gujin
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There seems to be a bug in the infrastructure. Because this page does not exist, it says at the top ' We don't have an article called "Gujin" ' which is totally wrong!
It should say ' We don't yet have a Talk:Gujin discussion page for the Gujin article -- please start one below! ' {{subst:69.87.203.178}}
- Firstly, this appears not to be the case; see eg Talk:Gujin2, which says "Wikipedia does not have a talk page with this exact name.". Secondly, this is the wrong place to report bugs with the Wikimedia software; the developers don't read every talk page for every article! Cheers --Pak21 19:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
What I typed was EXACTLY what I was seeing on the screen at the time. That is why I typed it. Yes, I am sure this is the wrong place to report such infrastructure problems. However, as a very wikipedia newbie, I would have no idea what the proper way to get such matters attended to is. Also, I thought that if I started the Talk page by getting some content in it, the problem would go away. Which is exactly what happened. The problem itself is even more strange than it first appeared. I did click on your Talk:Gujin2 link. And it shows the exact same problem! I currently see:
- ' Editing Talk:Gujin2 '
- ' We don't have an article called "Gujin2" '
- ' * Search Wikipedia for Gujin2 - it might be called something else. '
Maybe you are logged in, and that causes what you see to be different? (This is not actually a good example -- in this case neither the main article nor the Talk page actually exist, so the msg displayed is not as wrong as in the case where the article does actually exist, but the Talk page does not.) (If someone reads this who does know how to report the problem to the proper people, please do so!)69.87.193.235 14:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Inappropriate
This page is in a pretty poor state. Section headers are repetitive, there are few or no links to other articles (ISA, PCI or AGP for example). It uses terms like "floppy" instead of "floppy disk" and again fails to link to the relevant article. Readers of an ecyclopedia *do not care* about what file extensions are used! *.BDI, *.kgz have no place in this article. They should be in the software documentation.
"I have never tried it." <- this is ridiculous. How can an encyclopedia talk in the first person?
"some more such tools can be found here." <- Where is "here"? How stupid will this look when wikipedia goes to print? Links should be semantically tagged. A link to "here" simply makes no sense, since you are already "here".
This article is very questionable, and needs to be cleaned up. I could have stuck a dozen cleanup templates on it, but it would be a waste of time.
- Whoever wrote the text you object to is just a private individual, much like yourself, and like him or her, you are free to change the article to be better. And please sign your posts, as you are instructed above. -- Jibal 06:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References?
Well, there is anouncement on LWN, the latest at :
http://lwn.net/Articles/267946/
There is obviously the sourceforge site - with all the source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin
And the freshmeat site:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gujin/
Some older comment from kernel traffic:
http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20051017_332.html#2
The Free Software Directory index:
http://directory.fsf.org/project/Gujin/
Gujin has been used in the Ultimate Boot CD:
Classified in different databases:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Hardware_Support/Booting/ http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Software_Applications/Boot_Loaders/index.html
The Linux Kernel source itself:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/old/patch-2.6.20-rc6-git1.log
Cited in few docs:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/bootloaders.pdf
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/bootloaders/node2.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6786
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article078/BTWG-Discussion-Plenary2007.pdf
And there is this talk somewhere where the Russian guy say it cannot be a bootloader because it cannot start Tetris, but...
How to format this?
81.149.222.247 (talk) 17:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC) Etienne Lorrain
