Wikipedia:WikiProject Plan 9
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This Wikiproject aims to work on Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno-related articles.
The participants of WikiProject are listed in Category:WikiProject Plan 9 participants. To get listed, one should include his or her user page to this category by adding [[Category:WikiProject Plan 9 participants]] to user page.
To do
Missing pages
- secstore
- kfs
- kencc
- ndb
- draw (file server)
- gnot
- Acid (debugger)
- 9grid
- Inferno grid
- Dave Presotto
- Russ Cox
- Ron Minnich
- libthread
- Create Template:inferno-stub for Inferno-related articles
- Create Template:plan 9 to place on all Plan 9 from Bell Labs-related articles' talk pages
Articles that need work
- Alef programming language
- Limbo (programming language): Add links to various papers and tutorials
- Ken Thompson: Mention and link his Plan 9 compilers suite
- Rob Pike: Mention Newsqueak 8 1/2 and CWS papers and links
- List of Plan 9 applications (started 2006-07-01) needs a lot of work still.
- Abaco (web browser) (started 2006-07-01)
- Mothra (web browser) (started 2006-07-02)
- List of Inferno applications (started 2006-07-03)
Missing content in other pages
- Comparison of DNS server software: missing ndb
- Comparison of open source operating systems: many missing entries for Inferno
- Comparison of web browsers: missing abaco, mothra and charon
- Distributed Computing Environment: No metion of Plan 9 or Inferno
- Bourne shell: Expand reference to rc, it's due successor
- troff: Add documentation and links to the current Troff implementation (BWK tutorials, etc)
- Comparison of text editors: Add Sam
- History of the graphical user interface: Add Blit/Jerq and 8½
- Comparison of wiki software add wikifs
- History of operating systems: doesn't even mention Plan 9 or Inferno!
- Thin client and diskless node: don't mention Plan 9
- Coroutine: Mention libthread and expand on Limbo
- Snapshot (computer storage): Mention ken's file server and expand on fossil
Missing on wikiquote.org
The following would be useful additions to Wikiquote:
- q:Ken Thompson
- q:Rob Pike
- q:Dennis Ritchie
- q:Brian Kernighan
(Also need a q:Category:Plan 9 from Bell Labs category, and an q:Unix page too)
Missing screenshots
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs (Please, replace the ancient 2nd ed shot)
- Plan 9 from User Space
- Glenda - Missing space glenda and small glenda icon (also should be used in Template:User OS:Plan 9)
Articles to clean up and expand
Stubs
See Category:Plan 9 stubs for Plan 9 related stubs.
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Discussion
- Discussion takes place either on the articles talk page, this project's talk page, or #Plan9 connect.