G’day
I just want to let everyone know that Maxim Sokhatsky and myself [1]
have been doing a little work on Wikipedia. Maxim has added a “Haiku
Operating System Components” template box [2] that will link between
the Haiku’s Components (Add-Ons, Kits, Servers and Daemons); sadly
there is not much content as wiki deleted some of Maxim’s work. I on
the other hand created the “Haiku Software” template box [3] that
will link between the Software that is included in Haiku’s official
releases (Applications (Core & Bundled), Binary utilities,
Preferences, Developer Tools). We only have a few (Core & Bundled)
apps so far; they include: Bootman, Poorman, Tracker, BePDF, Pe,
Vision and WebPositive.
I am hoping that people will add to wiki and provide basic
encyclopedic information (non user guide type stuff). And that each
piece of software will have a “Software Infobox” that supplies a logo,
screenshot and the license. I also hope that each app will have link
to its page on the Haiku User Guide, in order for people to learn how
to use it. Tracker’s page kind of already meets this standard [4].
I want to add most of the apps when I have time during the winter
holidays in the southern hemisphere, but of course anyone can add them
before then. At that point I would like like to try to rewrite the
main Haiku page on wiki in that time as I think it is shockingly
disjointed.
~Richie
[1] plus a bit of help from The123king.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Haiku_Operating_System_Components
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Haiku_Software
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Tracker
