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Welcome to the Internet WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Internet.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
  1. Document the Internet's common protocols and popular technology.
  2. Maintain and develop related categories
Scope
  1. The Internet as a whole, its history, current use, future, structure, technology, etc.
  2. Popular culture is excluded, and belongs in a separate project, as do computer networks other than the internet. Some overlap is expected with the latter, however - especially in Category:Internet standards.

Guidelines

Open tasks

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Syntax: # {{tl|User|Name}} ~~~~~ (Areas of interest)

  1. CallMeAndrew (talk · contribs) 06:00, 30 May 2009 (UTC) (i can do stuff)[reply]
  2. Cody_Cooper (talk · contribs) 23:54, 16 May 2009 (UTC) (I am able to program in PHP)[reply]
  3. Mrzaius (talk · contribs) 13:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC) (Must revive dead project!)[reply]
  4. donkdonk (talk · contribs) 13:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Mrseibert (talk · contribs) 21:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Myrecovery (talk · contribs) 14:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Melsaran (talk · contribs) 13:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC) we really ought to have a WikiProject on a subject as broad as the internet.[reply]
  8. h2g2bob (talk · contribs) 16:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  9. CQ (talk · contribs) 18:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC) Ok. Yeah. I'll help when I get back online. (plz send funds)[reply]
  10. Jehochman (talk · contribs) 02:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Ersad (talk · contribs)--09:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  12. MadmanNova (talk · contribs) 01:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Gary King (talk · contribs) 23:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Ruslancool (talk · contribs)
  15. Redwoodneo (talk · contribs) Redwoodneo (talk) 07:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Firefoxman (talk · contribs) 19:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  17. WikiLeon (talk · contribs) 01:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC) (Web browsers and Internet culture)[reply]
  18. Susanlesch (talk · contribs) 05:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC) (mostly inactive)[reply]
  19. Prom3th3an (talk · contribs) 02:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC) (Australian Broadband)[reply]
  20. Tinucherian (talk · contribs) 06:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Melab-1 (talk · contribs) 22:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  22. CFeyecare (talk · contribs) 17:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  23. AllAboutAustralia (talk · contribs) 19:00, 23 September 2007 (UTC) (warrior,ozzy ozzy ozzy)[reply]
  24. Message From Xenu (talk · contribs) 13:51, 26 November 2008 (UTC) (AJAX, Web Destkops, Web 2.0, etc)[reply]
  25. Computer Tech001 (talk · contribs) 00:40, 5 May 2009 (UTC) (HTML, Internet History, Different Browsers ect.)[reply]
  26. P.Marlow (talk · contribs) (Web-based start-ups, browsers etc.)
  27. SunCreator (talk · contribs) 19:25, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Sean (talk || contribs) 20:07, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  29. 9Doors (talk · contribs) (Web based series, music and the web, creative commons copyright, and more)

Articles

Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Internet-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Collaboration and review

Proposed collaboration
Peer review
Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Internet! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Internet related 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 Internet}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Internet articles by quality and Category:Internet articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated?
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles?
Any member of the Internet WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
What if I don't agree with a rating?
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective?
Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions

Quality assessment

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Internet}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Internet articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Internet articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Internet articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Internet articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Internet articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Internet articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Internet articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Internet articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Internet articles) List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Internet articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Internet articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Internet articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class Internet articles)  FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Internet articles) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Internet articles) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Internet articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Internet articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Internet articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Internet articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Internet articles) ???

Quality scale

The scale for assessments is defined at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Articles are divided into the following categories.

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Internet}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Internet|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Internet articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Internet articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Internet articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Internet articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Internet articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Internet articles)  ??? 

Importance scale

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the Internet.

Note that general notability need not believe from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. Please note that an importance rating may not be given in some cases if the reviewer is unfamiliar with the subject.

If you assess an article, please strike it off using <s>Strike-through text</s> so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Thanks!

Submit new requests here:

Log

The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available; due to its size (ca 100 kB), it cannot be transcluded directly.

Templates

Categories

See also

Parents

Descendants

  1. ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
  2. ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
  3. ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.