Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing

AOZ Studio

I received a message saying that my draft page about AOZ Studio should qualify for this area, however, the page was rejected twice. Also, I have a conflict of interest, in that I have done work for AOZ Studio in the past, and still volunteer for them now. Perhaps someone else could attempt to work on this? FYI, AOZ is a modern version of the AMOS BASIC programming language. Here's the draft page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:AOZ_Studio ...although Wikipedia recommended starting over from scratch.

Here are some background reference articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS_(programming_language), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Lionet. Ising4jesus (talk) 23:40, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

I see several issues with your draft. Most parts are unsourced and main sources used in the draft are interviews, which confer nothing to notability in Wikipedia sense. My recommendation: Find 3 independent reliable sources (see WP:RS for more info; in short: reviews/news in published/online magazines with editorial staff should be OK) and write short article based on them. Alternatively, you could add some info (and references) to the AMOS article and use redirect from AOZ Studio, but this shouldn't be too long paragraph (AOZ Studio is merely a footnote in the history of AMOS). I offer my help with the draft (I learned AMOS two years ago and like that language...), but don't hold your breath too high - achieving notability (in Wikipedia sense) for a new obscure application is not an easy task. Pavlor (talk) 06:25, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, the first step is to identify WP:THREE good sources that establish notabilty. The other problem you're facing is that tt is difficult for an editor with WP:COI to write a neutral article. Your best way through this challenge may be to WP:STUBIFY the draft so that it is too short to have serious problems. ~Kvng (talk) 14:45, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Python (programming language)

Python (programming language) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:47, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments. This proposes support for quality assessment at the article level, recorded in {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and inherited by the wikiproject banners. However, wikiprojects that prefer to use custom approaches to quality assessment can continue to do so. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:36, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Input requested at Bumble

More input at Talk:Bumble#Inspiration Daily source would be useful to reach a consensus. The contested content is sourced to the blog Inspiration Daily. — Bilorv (talk) 18:43, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Reliability of CNET

This is a notice that per WP:RSN#Beware: CNet running AI-generated articles, byline "CNet Money", there is consensus that CNET is no longer considered a reliable source. Thank you for your attention. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:42, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Project watchlist

The project watchlist (https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/cgi-bin/transcluded_changes.py?namespace=&page=Template:WikiProject_Computing Wikiproject) is now dead. I've replaced it with a watchlist that only includes talk pages, but does anyone know of a tool that provides a watchlist of all project pages, including articles? DFlhb (talk) 15:28, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

I've build a hacky workaround for WikiProject Apple, which this project could imitate; but there's likely a better way. DFlhb (talk) 16:14, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Redlinks index

Do we have any redlinks index, like WP:WIR/REDLIST? Any way to use a bot to (partially) maintain one? DFlhb (talk) 10:49, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, just saw Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet, linked in the sidebar. Disregard. DFlhb (talk) 10:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

AfC review of Draft:Confidential computing

Hi,

I worked on an article about Confidential Computing. Tried to make it as objective and well-referenced as possible. Seeking review and suggestions. Note, I'm affiliated with a related non-profit industry group and will abide by all rules regarding conflicts. All help appreciated. Thanks! -HudsonAttests (talk) 20:55, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Not today

An individual project, not something for a Unicode to handle - just not my style. The “wiki” has been a little rough in format for some time, fixes are going to get done and should be. Not up this path, against, nay. Great idea and good suggestion. INTJwemudusnwtoanzd (talk) 01:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

AI boom

Hi all, just wondering if any of you would be interested in expanding the AI boom article that was created recently. It's a bit short and needs more info regarding reactions (such as the recent petition to halt AI development for six months) and some other stuff. 124.179.133.128 (talk) 12:30, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ex Falso (tag editor)#Requested move 7 April 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ex Falso (tag editor)#Requested move 7 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 19:36, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Latest stable software release templates

Many of the templates in Category:Latest stable software release templates were last updated in 2008, 2010, 2011, and so on, and are for abandoned software. I propose those pages be deleted, with their contents moved to the respective article infobox.

This proposal would address a separate problem, which is that most such templates are desperately out of date. If these templates only existed for currently-supported apps, it would make it easier to use Petscan to look for unmaintained/out of date templates (sort by date on Petscan), and to bring them up to date.

Also, since this is WP:COMPUTING, it would be real nice if someone could create a bot that parses the relevant pages, and keeps these templates automatically up to date. It would take far less time to review bot changes than to make these changes ourselves; it would prevent the pages from being too out of date, and it would save us from doing such boring, menial and unimportant work manually. DFlhb (talk) 18:30, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

(Improvement: Just for clarity, as of November 2006, Exabyte has been led to its defunct because it wanted a buyer.) 73.141.202.124 (talk) 23:45, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Memory rank correction

The page on memory rank states that "...modern DIMMs can consist of one rank (single rank), two ranks (dual rank), four ranks (quad rank), or eight ranks (octal rank)." It should be noted that there are three rank DIMMs(e.g. Samsung's M393B3G70DV0), and presumably any number of ranks can exist 50.25.161.249 (talk) 15:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Compute

Compute currently redirects to Computing, which I guess reflects the use of the term as a verb ('to compute'). But this term has in recent years acquired another meaning, as a noun, where as far as I can see it refers to computational power. Where is that second meaning treated on Wikipedia? What to do with the redirect? – Uanfala (talk) 13:31, 28 April 2023 (UTC)