Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux

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Tux the penguin At the moment, this project has just started, and needs members. Join if you are interested in Linux. The aim is to get as many users as possible. Advocate to fellow Linux contributors and get them on board. If you know someone who contributes here and uses Linux make sure they are aware of this project. Please help out by indexing all the Linux articles you know of on Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/index.
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Linux. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

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WikiProject Linux

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WikiProject Linux is an attempt at creating a community of Linux wikipedians to maintain and write for Linux articles on Wikipedia. The aim of this project is to make sure that all Linux articles are kept upto date, cited, clean, factually accurate and NPOV. For our purposes, "Linux" includes Linux distros, GNU coreutils, and of course the Linux Kernel. Applications that run on linux may also fall within the scope.

Related projects are WikiProject Free Software and WikiProject Computing.

[edit] Participants

  1. Ahmed S. Darwish (contribs) Debian GNU/Linux user and an embedded software developer.
  2. Autarch Knoppix user with interest in gNewSense.
  3. RedSpike101 15:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  4. Molinogi (talk • contribs) New to Linux, but is now full Ubuntu, wanting to add Gentoo to the mix.
  5. T. Moitie Talk
  6. Twinxor t
  7. Reisio 01:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  8. Draicone (talk)
    • --Ood 13:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  9. ZeWrestler Talk
  10. ―Linux|erist
  11. Animehair 18:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  12. M.shady 00:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  13. NerdyNSK 00:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
  14. LaneRendell
  15. Squidfish 09:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
  16. Shadow1 (talk)
  17. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 19:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  18. Tom Harrison Talk 20:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  19. --525252a
  20. benjaminevans82 15:00 16 November 2006 (UTC)
  21. Secretlondon 01:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  22. utcursch | talk 07:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  23. Monk of the highest order 13:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  24. Lwarf 10:00, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  25. 0L1 | Talk | Contribs 20:34 7/12/2006 (UTC)
  26. Cocoaguy 14:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC) Linux is the best OS out there.
  27. Antidrugue 17:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  28. Emx 21:26, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
  29. Thehebrewhammer 21:17, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
  30. Anthonycfc (talk • email • tools) 00:17, Tuesday December 26, 2006 (UTC)
  31. ChP94 08:23, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  32. J0lt C0la 20:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
  33. V60 VTalk - VDemolitions
  34. • master_sonLets talk
  35. BiancaOfHell 03:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  36. —LestatdeLioncourt
  37. Micro.pw 17:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC) I'll help!
  38. Dave 21:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  39. msk 21:30, 21 January 2007 Ill try!!
  40. Katee 23:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  41. Shoka 21:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  42. Nuclearmound 19:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)Nuclearmound
  43. Icez 04:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
  44. Gskuse 18:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  45. matt.smart talk/contribs 14:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  46. Falcorian (talk) 04:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  47. KeybladeSephi Talk Contributions 3:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  48. ThePurpleMonkey(talk•portal•contribs•count) - Count me in!
  49. John Vandenberg 06:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
  50. Muchris 1 March 2007
  51. Ashlux - 4 March 2007
  52. vLaDsINgEr 03:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  53. Chadders 10 March 2007
  54. Brogue - 15 March 2007
  55. Phillip.northfield -  Phillip.Northfield  ►  15:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC) 15:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  56. Bojan 17:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  57. oKtosiTe 20:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
  58. AgentA (Matt) 23:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC) - Mainstream Ubuntu user gaining experience
  59. Artagnon 18:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
  60. Zeth 18:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
  61. Aditya 18:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
  62. Ta bu shi da yu
  63. MaintainerZero
  64. AchedDamiman
  65. User:thefirstM
  66. User:Antonw1 20:49, 18 June 2007
  67. Anhimgr8 03:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  68.  Tcrow777  talk  04:50, 21 July 2007 (UTC) User with limited Linux experience.
  69. Laugh! 01:00, 26 July 2007 (UTC) Given this is the first actual editing I've enjoyed in awhile
  70. Mattva01 00:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  71. Sharru Kinnu III Experienced with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mandriva, and Zenwalk. Other experience in Unix-like OSes: DesktopBSD and PCBSD. Also experienced in the enemy: Windows/DOS
  72. CloneDeath 20:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC) - I use Kubuntu and like to make games! I can also translate other languages to English, and I like to program. I know several programming languages.
  73. Unknown_Interval 12:40, 9 August 2007 (EST) - I use Kubuntu
  74. -Connor Carey 16:58, 13 August 2007 (UTC) - I swear by Ubuntu and SuSE
  75. Debeo Morium 23:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC) - Gentoo all the way
  76. Krzysz00 13:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC) - I use ubuntu
  77. — Andrew Hampe Talk 15:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC) - I'll make some templates if thee is any to make and i'll polish the wikiproject. Oh, I'll work on the articles too :)
  78. spazure (contribs) (review) 09:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC) I only know SuSE not because I'm a flavor snob, but because the fs layout of other flavors confuses me, so I stick with what I learned on. Luckily, a lot of people don't understand SuSE, so sometimes I'm a useful geek to contact. spazure (contribs) (review) 09:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
  79. Toussaint 20:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC) I contribute to alot of the Linux articles both here and at TheLinuxVault. For the record, I've tried ubuntu (blergh!), Dreamlinux (nice), GoboLinux (nice), Symphony OS (nice), Gentoo Linux (couldn't get to install), VidaLinux (nothing spectacular), PCLinuxOS (ndiswrapper issue for the laptop), OpenSUSE (no opinion), and even Darwin.
  80. smcro 20:58, 18 September 2007 (UTC) Turned my old computer into something useful with Xubuntu. User for close to 2 months. Have programming experience in HTML+CSS (most experienced), Python (2nd most), and C++. Also, (unfortunately) experienced in Windows/DOS, and Visual Basic.
  81. Involinstance 22:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC) I love Kubuntu, and browsing the internet, play games, and develop programs and web pages. I believe I could help extend the Linux articles.
  82. SunilSuri 22:20, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  83. Gaurdro 18:52, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
  84. E_dog95 Hi 10:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC) Linux networking student - I do not hate Microsoft
  85. Quatroking14:30, 3 December 2007 (GMT+1) - Using all variants of Ubuntu, hardware hippie and hater of M$'s propaganda.
  86. vendion (talk) 18:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC) Been using Linux for almost two years now, been using openSUSE as my distro, and I am willing to help out any way that I can.
  87. User:HockeyInJune
  88. Admrb♉ltz (t • c • log)
  89. --Μ79_Šp€çíá∫횆tell me about it 20:21, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Sabayon and Podzilla 2 FTW!!!
  90. Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs)
  91. Kozuch (talk) 23:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
  92. —BradV 15:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  93. Xiong Chiamiov ::contact:: help! 17:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC) - I like fun projects.
  94. anantshri (talk) 18:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  95. Iunaw (talk) 23:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
  96. GeneralAntilles (talk) 05:16, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
  97. Shii (tock) 02:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
  98. ffm 13:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
  99. Antonio Lopez (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  100. Aronzak (talk) 07:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

  • To improve the quality and expand the range of Linux-related articles on Wikipedia.
  • To improve articles such that they would serve as useful to beginners and experts alike, by providing both simple and more technical descriptions.
  • To spread awareness of Linux, in a respectful and realistic manner, to other Wikipedians.

[edit] State of affairs

The following is a list of current featured articles and good articles directly related to Linux:

Distributions:

Kernel:

Software:

[edit] Assessment

Main article: /Assessment
(Index · Statistics · Log)
Linux
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Good article GA 7 7
B 19 19
Start 119 119
Stub 164 164
Assessed 310 310
Unassessed 52 52
Total 362 362

[edit] Mini collaboration

For now, we need to collaborate on getting the WikiProject organized and get a healthy set of articles/lists marked up with the Wikiproject template. In the future I plan to use this space to advertise a specific article that we want to get to good article status.

To vote for or nominate the next Mini Collaboration, go to this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/Mini Collaboration Nominations.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub template

For Linux stub articles use the standard {{linux-stub}} or one of its sub-stub categories.

[edit] Article Talk page template

On the talk pages of the articles that we are focusing on, please put in this template: {{WPLinux}}. It should appear like this:

This non-article page is part of the Linux WikiProject, a group of Wikipedians interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage of articles relating to Linux, and who are involved in developing and proposing standards for their content, presentation and other aspects.
If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating.

Please don't add this to articles we have not yet had an effect on. It frustrates some of the editors that have worked hard on the article in the first place.

[edit] Userbox

For a userbox, use this: {{User WPLinux}}.

Linux This user is a member of WikiProject Linux


[edit] Categories

[edit] Supported Articles

For all articles under our wing, check the category, Category:WikiProject Linux articles.

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Deletion links