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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 category Telecommunications with subcategories.

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

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications:

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 {{WikiProject Telecommunications|class=X|importance=Y}} template to the talk page of related articles, where X is an assessment on the Quality scale, and Y is an assessment on the importance scale.
Assess unassessed articles on the Quality scale
Clean-up the WikiProject Telecommunications page from article references that are older than 6 months.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Telecommunications pages by quality
Quality	Total pages
GA	6
B	39
C	118
Start	347
Stub	216
List	25
Book	2
Category	101
Disambig	2
Portal	1
Project	2
Redirect	15
Template	46
NA	1
Assessed	921
Unassessed	1,346
Total	2,267

[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.

Peer review request

Suggestions are welcome - Date

[edit] Automatic article alerts

Articles for deletion

20 Jan 2012 – List of telecommunications billing companies (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by A13ean (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
21 Jan 2012 – Martel Communication (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bbb23 (t · c) was deleted; see discussion (3 participants)

[edit] Articles of high importance

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

Channel code - ~~Jul 2010. Unfortunately poor article on an important topic.~~ Improved article layout and organization, still needs work. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Suggestions are welcome - Date

[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:

Text roulette (mobile phone culture) - June 2010
Channel capacity - July 2010
Hybrid automatic repeat request - July 2010
Suggestions are welcome - Date

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

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

Service Delivery Platform, May 2010
ATM Adaptation Layer 2, July 2010
Visitor Location Register, October 2010
Zain Jordan and Zain (stale merge proposal), October 2010
Spice Telecom, October 2010
Template:Avaya, August 2011
Suggestions are welcome - Date

[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
Mobile switching centre server - July 2010
Suggestions are welcome - date

[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 Audio 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 [1] [2]
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

[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

Category:Telecommunications is the top category for articles under this WikiProject. It is a subcategory of Category:Communication, which 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 requiring diffusion and clean-up

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

[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

ITU Terms and Definitions An online database providing access to all the abbreviations, acronyms, terms and definitions contained in the International Telecommunication Union publications (multiple languages)
Electropedia 20,000 electrical and electronic terms defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (multiple languages)
Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms 1996 Online access to the terms defined in United States Federal Standard 1037C, maintained by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
Eriterm - a five-language telecommunications glossary: English, Swedish, French, Spanish, German. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, 1992, 683 pages, ISBN 91-630-0494-1
Textbooks at Google books
Research articles at Google scholar

[edit] Templates

[edit] This article is part of WikiProject Telecommunications

WikiProject Telecommunications

Telecommunication portal

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.

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[edit] Pages needing expert attention from Telecommunications experts

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[edit] Member user page template

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[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/Technology.

[edit] Sister Project links

[edit] Parentage

WikiProject Technology

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

WikiProject Audiovisual telecommunications
WikiProject Radio, with descendant WikiProjects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Lists

[edit] Related Wikiportals

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Wikiversity has learning materials about Telecommunications

Look up Telecommunications in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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[edit] External links

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Telecommunications