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WikiProject Plan 9

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WP:Plan9

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

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:

(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.

Markup

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Discussion

Discussion takes place either on the articles talk page, this project's talk page, or #Plan9 ^connect.