Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/Mahensingha
key success factors of the linux community, what to take for wikipedia[edit]
linus torvalds created a community of programmers working on the linux kernel 1991. the community grew since then to nowadays 5'000 commits a month, 5 times more than 10 years ago. alone the linux kernel mailing list receives more than 20'000 messages a month, 3 times more than 10 years ago. innovative technologies are added to the kernel first from universities, individuals, companies, bearing the GPL. what do you see as the key success factors of that development, and what can you take off that into your work at wikipedia? --ThurnerRupert (talk) 15:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
- In the mentioned period even the wikipedia has gone popular by multiple times and the technological advancements have certainly well supported the tasks being undertaken. Being open platform Linux really did well. At present I do not have any experience of mailing lists. But, dealing with any of the jobs I handle I will certainly accomodate the technology in my work.--MahenSingha (Talk) 09:35, 5 December 2015 (UTC)