Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing

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WikiProject Computing

Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Computing page! Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to areas or subjects relating to computers, computing and information technology. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about computing technology available on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Computing

General information
Main project page	talk
Members	talk

Departments
Assessment	talk
Outreach	talk
Peer review	talk

Tasks
Articles for deletion	talk
Articles needing attention	talk
Articles needing expansion	talk
Articles requested	talk

Task forces
Computer hardware	talk
Computer networking	talk
WikiProject Nortel	talk
Early computers	talk

Descendant WikiProjects
Amiga	talk
Apple Inc.	talk
Macintosh task force	talk
iOS task force	talk
Computer science	talk
Databases	talk
Computer Security	talk
Computer Vision	talk
Internet	talk
Internet culture	talk
IRC	talk
Websites	talk
Blogging	talk
Podcasting	talk
Microsoft	talk
Microsoft Windows	talk
Programming languages	talk
C++	talk
Java	talk
RISC OS	talk
Software	talk
Free Software	talk
Linux	talk

Parent WikiProject
Technology	talk

Related WikiProjects
Cryptography	talk
Graphic design	talk
Telecommunications	talk
Typography	talk
Video games	talk
Webcomics work group	talk

Portals

Apple Inc.

Computer networking

Computer science

Computer security

Information technology

Internet

Software

Technology and applied sciences

Templates

{{Compu-stub}}

{{Infobox computer}}

{{User WP COMP}}

{{WikiProject Computing}}

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 11 Feb 2012 – Pyro Desktop (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Shadowjams (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 07 Feb 2012 – Goofey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Czarkoff (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 07 Feb 2012 – Guidance, navigation and control (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TenPoundHammer (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
• 05 Feb 2012 – Myhomepage (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by MelbourneStar (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 04 Feb 2012 – Fdm (email utility) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Whpq (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 04 Feb 2012 – SmitFraud (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SL93 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 04 Feb 2012 – Trelby (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikishagnik (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 02 Feb 2012 – List of software license violations (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SF007 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
• 01 Feb 2012 – Parc Place Systems (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Alpha Quadrant (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
• 01 Feb 2012 – Bunmi Akinyemiju (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kilopi (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

• 11 Feb 2012 – Cassini Web Server (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Czarkoff (t · c): Notability not established by referencing reliable sources covering the subject in depth.
• 11 Feb 2012 – Words (Unix) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Tlesher (t · c): Unreferenced and orphaned for three years; hardly notable (unless we're going to also add entries for every other file traditionally present on Unix--"standard" is too strong unless POSIX mentions the file, which I don't think it do ...
• 10 Feb 2012 – FirstOffice (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by RHaworth (t · c): no evidence of notability and endorsed by Czarkoff (t · c) on 11 Feb 2012
• 07 Feb 2012 – Software Carpentry (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 98.28.12.216 (t · c): Tagged for over 3 years, article does not assert notability and has not been improved in that time to show such.
• 07 Feb 2012 – LiveProfile (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Czarkoff (t · c): Lack of notability per WP:N or WP:NSOFT.
• 06 Feb 2012 – Returnil Virtual System (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Czarkoff (t · c): Lack of notability
• 06 Feb 2012 – Digi Connect ME (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Czarkoff (t · c): No indications of notability.
• 06 Feb 2012 – Appulate (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mean as custard (t · c): No indication of notability and endorsed by Usedshoes (t · c) on 09 Feb 2012
• 06 Feb 2012 – Pineywoods Tech (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mean as custard (t · c): No indication of notability and endorsed by Czarkoff (t · c) on 11 Feb 2012
• 05 Feb 2012 – Message-passing method (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Melcombe (t · c): notability is not demonstrated -- no sources

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Categories for discussion

• 29 Jan 2012 – Category:IBM Mainframe computer operating systems (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Ruud Koot (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 29 Jan 2012 – List of software license violations (talk · edit · hist) RfDed by Senator2029 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 02 Feb 2012 – Jimmy Wales (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Dipankan001 (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 22 Jan 2012 – Wikipedia (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Brews ohare (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 10 Feb 2012 – Magnetoresistive random access memory (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Wbm1058 (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Feb 2012 – 9GAG (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by David Levy (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Feb 2012 – Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) (talk · edit · hist) move request by Marcus Qwertyus (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 02 Feb 2012 – Emma (application) (talk · edit · hist) move request by Pnm (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 02 Feb 2012 – SkyDrive (talk · edit · hist) move request by Pnm (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 28 Jan 2012 – Cache (talk · edit · hist) move request by Pnm (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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Scope and goals

This WikiProject aims to organise, expand and improve all Wikipedia's articles on areas or subjects relating to computers, computing, and information technology. We have a very broad scope, so we hope to collaborate and communicate with other Wikiprojects that overlap our domain.

Our scope includes:
1. History of computing
2. Computer science and computer programming
3. Networking and the Internet
4. Server technology
5. Databases
6. Hardware
7. Computer security
8. Software
9. Operating systems

Our goal is to produce detailed, well written and NPOV articles on all topics related to computers.

See also: List of computing topics

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Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's computing articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Computing}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. Users can also nominate articles for future collaboration.

Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters. A number of additional programs are either underway or being planned.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

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Participants

A list of participants is at WikiProject Computing/Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join this project.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Computing.

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Templates

The Templates page lists all templates useful in writing and maintaining articles about computing, including infobox, cleanup, stub, and talk page templates.

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Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Computing

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Article quality

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	1	7	6			17
FL		1	1	9			11
FM		1					1
A			1				1
GA	3	10	31	22			66
B	43	98	163	117		272	693
C	34	122	274	289		246	965
Start	14	166	535	1,628		1,938	4,281
Stub	2	45	190	1,885		9,092	11,214
List	4	7	56	143	22	110	342
Book					26		26
Category		1	1	2	343		347
Disambig			3	11	31		45
File				23	152		175
Portal					6		6
Project					57		57
Redirect			1	13	280		294
Template		4	3	7	218		232
Assessed	103	456	1,266	4,155	1,135	11,658	18,773
Unassessed		3	9	11		8,589	8,612
Total	103	459	1,275	4,166	1,135	20,247	27,385

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