Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/Wildthing61476

key success factors of the linux community
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) 15:27, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * That's a rather interesting question you posed here. I will first say I'm not very familiar with the Linux community, so I can't say with full certainty how their community fully operates. However, the growth in Linux is based on a few factors, one more and more people looking to build their own systems, and having an open source OS to do so, secondly the rise of mobile devices using Linux-based technology (after all Android is based of a Linux shell I believe). Growth is part of this from a number of avenues, and community input is used in that growth, much like with Wikipedia. Wikipedia as a whole is only going to grow as the community here allows it. This will require collaboration from all editors, and a way to settle differences quickly, and in the best way possible. Wildthing61476 (talk) 15:05, 30 November 2015 (UTC)