Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications

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Telecommunication portal Shortcuts: WP:TEL WP:TELECOM

Welcome to a WikiProject with the aim to better organize information in articles related to telecommunications and communications system engineering, and to support collaborative work among Wikipedia authors with interest in this field. The project should cover the Wikipedia categories Communication engineering and Telecommunications with subcategories.

If you would like to help, this is how you can contribute:

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Add your name to the members list, and add the {{User WikiProject Tel}} template to your user page. Add your suggestions to the list of articles needing attention, for a common group effort. Inform the group at the project talk page about ongoing disputes and survey votes that are related to the group. Contribute to the articles needing attention, for example by merging or extending stub articles and adding references Move articles from categories that are too large. Add the {{Tel Project|class=X}} template to the talk page of related articles, where X is an assessment on the Quality scale Assess unassessed articles on the Quality scale Clean-up the WikiProject Telecommunications page from article references that are older than 6 months.

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Contents 1 Participants 2 Articles needing attention 2.1 Automatic article alerts 2.2 Articles of high importance 2.3 New and rewritten pages to be reviewed 2.4 Articles needing expert attention, clean-up, references, etc 2.5 Stubs under construction 2.6 Articles up for AfD deletion 2.7 Previously proposed deletions 2.8 Suggestions for new articles 3 Categories 3.1 Category hierarchy 3.2 Category policies 3.3 Suggestions for new and changed sub-categories 3.4 New sub-categories 3.5 Categories requiering diffusion and clean-up 4 Guidelines for authoring articles 4.1 Example of articles with good structure 4.2 Recommended article structure 4.3 Recommended terminology 5 Templates 5.1 This article is part of WikiProject Telecommunications 5.2 Pages needing expert attention from Telecommunications experts 5.3 Member user page template 5.4 Stubs 6 Wikipedia surveys 6.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting 7 Sister Project links 7.1 Parentage 7.2 Descendant WikiProjects 7.3 Similar WikiProjects 7.4 Lists 7.5 Related Wikiportals

[edit] Participants

If you would consider yourself a participant of this project, please sign at the members subpage. Don't forget to add the {{User WikiProject Tel}} template to your userpage.

[edit] Articles needing attention

Article references older than six months may be removed.

[edit] Automatic article alerts

Requested moves

• 1 Jan 2010 – Move requested from Broadband integrated services digital network (talk) to Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network by Dgtsyb; see discussion.
• 30 Dec 2009 – Move requested from TalkTalk TV (talk) to Tiscali TV by Anthony Appleyard; see discussion.

Other news

• 30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre.
• 28 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out
• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] Articles of high importance

It is suggested that, for the moment, the project group should concentrate its effort on:

• 4G - Dec 2009. This subject gets alot of media attention currently, but the WP article has multiple issues.
• Suggestions are welcome - Date

See also

• List of basic communication topics
• List of basic telecommunication topics

[edit] New and rewritten pages to be reviewed

Most of these articles and sections are created, expanded or extensively revised by participants of this WikiProject:

• Channel model – Mange01 (talk) 19:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
• Traffic generation model – Mange01 (talk) 19:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
• AVST - June 2009
• Noise (electronics) (merged with Noise (telecommunications) and Noise level) - December 2009
• Bit error rate - December 2009
• Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] Articles needing expert attention, clean-up, references, etc

Participants of the WikiProject have inquired help on the following articles:

• Pioneer Telephone, June 2009
• Pat Fleet, June 2009
• User:Salhew/KorKor - I have just built this article on my userpage temporarily to get feedback on it. Then I hope to post it to KorKor.
• Suggestions are welcome - Date
• 4G - Issues with topic definition, article scope, content organization, and updating stale information. Verdatum (talk) 15:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

See also:

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

• Category:Telecommunications articles needing expert attention
• Category:Computer networking articles needing expert attention
• Category:Cryptography articles needing expert attention

[edit] Stubs under construction

Participants of the WikiProject has inquired help on the following stubs:

• Data over signalling - August 2008
• Simultaneous voice and data - August 2008
• Suggestions are welcome - date

See also:

• Category:Communication stubs
  • Category:Computer network stubs
  • Category:Radio communications stubs
  • Category:Telecommunications stubs
    • Category:Telecommunications company stubs
    • Category:Wireless stubs

[edit] Articles up for AfD deletion

• Traffic pumping October 2009. Obvious Google, Inc. press release.

[edit] Previously proposed deletions

[edit] Suggestions for new articles

• persistent, persistence (telecommunications), non-persistent, p-persistent, 1-persistent multiple access
• timeslot/slotted (referring to slotted Aloha, TDMA, MACAW, etc)
• scheduling algorithms (communication) (Merge of several articles in Category:Scheduling algorithms)
• Mobile phone location and tapping, see Talk:Telephone tapping#Merge (and split) suggestion for details. `'mikka 20:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• RG213 RG11 coax cable types - some other coaxes are in already eg RG59 GB
• DAB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite) Mange01 (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• DVB-MS (Digital Video Broadcasting - multipoint distribution) Mange01 (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
• Radio Link Control (RLC) sublayer Mange01 (talk) 13:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• AVST - unified messaging and communications provider [2] [3]
• Multihop routing or multihopping - Mange01 (talk) 18:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
• Telecommunication service, and Content service or Telecommunication content service. (See also value-added service.) Mange01 (talk) 18:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
• Suggestions are welcome - user and date

See also

• List of red links (links to missing topics) within the Telecommunications category and subcategories of depth 3.
• Requested articles within Communications
• Requested articles within Computer science, computing, and Internet.
• Requested articles within Signal processing.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Category hierarchy

A list of the largest telecommunication related categories and sub-categories are presented here:

• List of categories with Talk page

A suggestion for revised category structure can be found at User:Alinja/Comms, and is discussed at the WP:TEL talk page.

[edit] Category policies

The top category, Category:Communication should mainly deal with social science issues.

The Category:OSI protocols should be used as a map for categories to as large extent as possible.

The Category:Wireless is for anything pertaining to the use of radio waves in telecommunications, except broadcasting, which is covered in Category:Radio .

[edit] Suggestions for new and changed sub-categories

• Example category: example was suggested by ~~~~.

[edit] New sub-categories

• Telecommunication theory was created in August 2007. It may partly replace the old category Communication theory, which also includes social science issues.
• Category:Applications of Telecommunication‎ was created in August 2007. (Partly overlapping with Category:Application layer protocols.)
• Category:Redirects from telephone number was created in August 2007. This collects all country calling code redirects. Example redirect +54.
• Example category: example was created (date).

[edit] Categories requiering diffusion and clean-up

There are too many articles in these categories; they need to be moved to subcategories where appropriate.

• Category:Telecommunications
• Category:Television
• Category:Radio
• Category:Network protocols
• Category:Mass media
• Category:Information theory

[edit] Guidelines for authoring articles

[edit] Example of articles with good structure

• OFDM. Good article candidate.
• Telecommunication. Listed as Good article.
• Optical fibre. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
• History of the Internet. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
• AT&T. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
• Alexander Graham Bell. Was listed (or only nominated?) as Good article.
• Nikola Tesla. Was listed as Good article but has been removed.
• Data Encryption Standard. Listed as Featured article in August 2004.
• Cryptography. Listed as Featured article.
• Digital terrestrial television in Australia. Listed as Good article in August 2007.
• Digital radio in the United Kingdom. Listed as Good article in July 2007.
• 300-page iPhone bill. Listed as Good article in October 2007.
• Touchwave. Listed as Good article in January 2009.

[edit] Recommended article structure

Technical telecommunication articles should include the following:

• Definition, scope, synonyms, autonym
• Popular scientific introduction to the concept and its practical application for those unfamiliar with the subject matter
• Historical background, including date of origin and originator if known
• Key features, for example the advantages and disadvantages
• Schematic description and principles of operation, perhaps with numerical examples and illustrations
• Mathematical formulas and pseudo code are presented as late as possible
• Technical details on special cases and instances of the concept, for example versions and implementations, perhaps presented in a comparison table
• See also
• References
• External links

[edit] Recommended terminology

• Eriterm - a five-language telecommunications glossary: English, Swedish, French, Spanish, German. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992, 683 pages, ISBN 91-630-0494-1
• Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, United States Federal Standard 1037C
• Textbooks at Google books
• Research articles at Google scholar

[edit] Templates

[edit] This article is part of WikiProject Telecommunications

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Telecommunication portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Telecommunications, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Telecommunications on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.

Add the following text to the talk page of the category or article: {{Tel Project}}

[edit] Pages needing expert attention from Telecommunications experts

Add the following to the article: {{expert-subject|Telecommunications}}

[edit] Member user page template

Project members are encouraged to add this text to their user page: {{User WikiProject Tel}}

[edit] Stubs

• Template {{comm-stub}} with associated category Category:Communication stubs (Mainly social science aspects)
  • Template {{Telecommunications-stub}} with associated category Category:Telecommunications stubs
    • Template {{telecom-company-stub}} with associated category Category:Telecommunications company stubs
    • Template {{Wireless-stub}} with associated category Category:Wireless stubs
    • Template {{areacode-stub}} with associated category Category:Area code stubs
  • Template {{compu-network-stub}} with associated category Category:Computer network stubs

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Telecommunications-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Telecommunications.

[edit] Sister Project links

[edit] Parentage

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

• WikiProject Audiovisual telecommunications
• WikiProject Radio, with descendant WikiProjects
  • WikiProject Amateur radio
  • WikiProject Radio Stations
  • WikiProject Podcasting

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bell System
• WikiProject Computer networking
• WikiProject Computing
• WikiProject Computer Science
• WikiProject Cryptography
• WikiProject Electronics
• WikiProject Systems
• WikiProject Television Stations

[edit] Lists

• List of basic communication topics
• List of basic telecommunication topics
• List of basic information technology topics
• List of digital television deployments by country
• List of computing and IT abbreviations
• List of Internet topics

[edit] Related Wikiportals

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Telecommunications

Wikiversity has learning materials about Telecommunications

Look up Telecommunications in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Portal:Radio
• Portal:Computer networking
• Portal:Internet
• Portal:Information technology
• Portal:Technology
• Portal:Telecommunication