Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications

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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.

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Telecommunications articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
GA			13	30		2	45
B	9	32	60	70		53	224
C	21	123	219	535		247	1,145
Start	3	18	337	1,690		1,155	3,203
Stub			68	1,489		713	2,270
List	1	7	20	104		136	268
Category				1	1,066		1,067
Disambig					11		11
File					31		31
Portal					2		2
Project					50		50
Redirect		1	16	176	379		572
Template		2	7	10	163		182
NA				8	56		64
Assessed	34	183	740	4,115	1,758	2,306	9,136
Unassessed			2	8	1	467	478
Total	34	183	742	4,123	1,759	2,773	9,614
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 34,977			Ω = 5.08

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.

Articles needing attention

Article references older than six months may be removed.

Peer review request

Suggestions are welcome - Date

Automatic article alerts

Articles for deletion

15 Sep 2024 – Maitland Telephone Museum (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CFA (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
07 Sep 2024 – James Shaw Jr. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Praiawart (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
20 Aug 2024 – Nayatel (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Saqib (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Daniel (t · c) on 11 Sep 2024; see discussion (12 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

11 Sep 2024 – Digital Communications India Forum (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Cabrils (t · c): No WP:RSs and would seem unlikely any exist. Fails WP:NCORP.

Requested moves

11 Sep 2024 – Geo-fence warrant (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Geofence warrant by SMcCandlish (t · c); see discussion
29 Aug 2024 – Wi-Fi 6 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to IEEE 802.11ax by AP 499D25 (t · c); see discussion
16 Aug 2024 – Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to AN/MSQ-77 by TadgStirkland401 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

24 May 2024 – Voice over WLAN (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Wi-Fi calling by Privateeih (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

26 Jul 2024 – List of Android smartphones (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by OzzyOlly (t · c); see discussion
12 Jun 2023 – Category 5 cable (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
20 May 2023 – Apple Watch (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Felix QW (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

08 Aug 2024 – Draft:Pietro Labriola (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BoraVoro (t · c)
05 Aug 2024 – Draft:Hatim Zaghloul (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Omar abotyra (t · c)
27 Jul 2024 – Draft:Traditional phone to ToIP gateways (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Johnlakmovitch (t · c)
10 Sep 2024 – Draft:Aamir Ibrahim (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Akhan.basit (t · c) was declined by LR.127 (t · c) on 12 Sep 2024

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)[reply]
Suggestions are welcome - Date

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
Yellow Pages, possibly merge into Business directory - Certes (talk) 11:20, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestions are welcome - Date

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

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

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
DVB-MS (Digital Video Broadcasting - multipoint distribution) Mange01 (talk) 07:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Radio Link Control (RLC) sublayer Mange01 (talk) 13:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
AVST - unified messaging and communications provider [1] [2]
Multihop routing or multihopping - Mange01 (talk) 18:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Telecommunication service, and Content service or Telecommunication content service. (See also value-added service.) Mange01 (talk) 18:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Smart911; see [3] [4] [5]
Suggestions are welcome - user and date

Guidelines for authoring articles

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.

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

Templates

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Stubs

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  - Template {{Wireless-stub}} with associated category Category:Wireless stubs
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- Template {{compu-network-stub}} with associated category Category:Computer network stubs

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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.