About

• This page started October 31, 2011 by Michael Kaulbach for the purpose of working on the cleanup of Ubottu's factoids as mentioned in part by a request in the #ubuntu-irc mailing-list, "New roles in the Ubuntu IRC team"

Objectives

- Remove obsolete factoids
- Update outdated factoids
- Tidy up factoid aliases
- Provide a collaborative method of factoid review and updates

Methodology

(as of Oct 31, 2011)

Under the heading "Candidates For Removal", sections containing:

Factoid name (including aliases), Factoid content, Reason (please include your name), Notes/Actions taken (please include your name)
Sample Criteria: Factoids with obsolete information, inaccurate information, potentially harmful, and cannot or will not be updated.

Under the heading "Candidates For Update", sections containing:

Factoid name (including aliases), Factoid content, Reason/Proposed update (please include your name), Notes/Actions taken (please include your name)
Sample Criteria: Factoids with useful but outdated information, with typographical errors, broken links, could be made more succinct or verbose.
The current table format for both headings is currently:
||<|2:10%>Name||<|2:30%>Content||<|2:30%>Reason/Proposal, Name||<|2:30%>Notes/Action, Name||

Under the heading "Remarks:"

Comments regarding anything which does not fit under the first two headings.

Candidates For Removal

Candidates For Update

||<|2:10%>!scanning (aliases: !xsane !scan !sane) ||<|2:30%>Scanning software: Simple-Scan (GNOME), Xsane, the GIMP (GNOME), Kooka (KDE). For instructions see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ScanningHowTo and to see supported hardware: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScanners - See also !OCR||<|2:30%>Kooka is now superceded by skanlite, Kaulbach||<|2:30%>Awaiting review, Kaulbach||

||<|2:10%>!usplash (aliases: !splashy) ||<|2:30%>To select the usplash artwork you want, use "sudo update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so && sudo update-initramfs -u" - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USplashCustomizationHowto for adding your custom artwork||<|2:30%>usplash is obsolete, startupmanager is used now. link is also for an EOL release (edgy), Kaulbach||<|2:30%>Awaiting review, Kaulbach||

||<|2:10%>!floppy||<|2:30%>To mount floppy disks, see here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MakeFloppyDriveAvailableToEveryone||<|2:30%>link references Edubuntu 5.10, requested 179 times in 5 years... possible candidate for deletion entirely. Kaulbach||<|2:30%>Awaiting review, Kaulbach||

Remarks:

!sunjava should probably not be an alias to !java anymore - Kaulbach

!mail (aliases:!lists,!mailinglists,!ml)reads: <reply>Mail is another medium to communicate. Ubuntu mailing lists can be found at http://lists.ubuntu.com ..which is somewhat confusing. Suggest !ml be assigned to this and !mail point to something to do with email in a more generalized way - Kaulbach

!msfonts is an alias to !fonts which is an alias to !font ... which while it may work means when you look up !font in database it does not show !msfonts as being one of it's aliases - Kaulbach