From: Greg Farough <gregf@fsf.org>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:36:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnde533y.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2022.06.17.0637.05182@afu.wta.att.ne.jp> (Akira Urushibata's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:46:42 +0900 (added by postmaster@msrg2011.rgserv.att.ne.jp)")
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On Fri, Jun 17 2022, Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote:
> Has anybody been monitoring the Wikipedia article on the "Linux"
> operating system? As stated above I notice that it is constantly
> evolving. I see the need to examine the article and the "GNU/Linux"
> naming ordeal from an objective perspective.
I seem to remember Jimmy Wales getting involved in the naming
controversy on Wikipedia, saying somewhere that almost every instance
of "Linux" on Wikipedia should be GNU/Linux instead. This was a number
of years ago.
Did I make that up? I can't find any references for it anymore.
-g
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-16 21:46 Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct Akira Urushibata
2022-06-17 22:36 ` Greg Farough [this message]
2022-06-18 1:17 ` Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2022-06-18 6:06 ` J Leslie Turriff
2022-07-18 6:44 ` Ade Malsasa Akbar
2022-06-18 7:12 ` Lars Noodén
2022-06-21 2:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-06-21 23:07 ` J.B. Nicholson
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