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WikiProject Computing

Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Computing page! Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to areas or subjects relating to computers, computing and information technology. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about computing technology available on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Computing
General information
Main project page (talk) Members (talk) Manual of Style (talk)
Departments
Assessment (talk) Outreach (talk) Peer review (talk)
Tasks
Articles for deletion (talk) Articles needing attention (talk) Articles needing expansion (talk) Articles requested (talk)
Task forces
Computer hardware (talk) Computer networking (talk) Early computers (talk)
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Parent WikiProject
Technology (talk)
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Portals
Computing and Information technology Apple Inc. Computer networking Computer science Computer security Internet Software Technology and applied sciences
Templates
{{Compu-stub}} {{Infobox computer}} {{User WP COMP}} {{WikiProject Computing}}
recent Computing-related changes

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 24 Oct 2016 – ZipRecruiter (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 24 Oct 2016 – Aasaanjobs.com (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by K.e.coffman (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 24 Oct 2016 – WorldNet TPS (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Light2021 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 22 Oct 2016 – Aaron Seigo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Drmies (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 22 Oct 2016 – Tiny Buddha (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ShriSanamKumar (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 21 Oct 2016 – RideOn (technology company) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Light2021 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 20 Oct 2016 – XBCD (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GeoffreyT2000 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 20 Oct 2016 – Symantec Endpoint Protection (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RoySmith (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 19 Oct 2016 – Ketto (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JzG (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 19 Oct 2016 – SpikeSource (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Light2021 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 25 Oct 2016 – StreetTeam (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this ...
• 24 Oct 2016 – Infrastructure optimization (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by W Nowicki (t · c): Tagged for over five years. It seems to describe a specific marketing program from around 2008 that never was independently notable.
• 24 Oct 2016 – External Security Manager (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by H.dryad (t · c): Importance not asserted; no references.
• 24 Oct 2016 – Jitterbit Integration Server (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by HighKing (t · c): No indication of notability, promotional
• 19 Oct 2016 – Journaling block device (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Therealelizacat (t · c): Few third party sources available, WP:NOTJARGON, not generally notable as it is an obscure Linux kernel internal subsystem
• 20 Oct 2016 – Mailinator (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by FockeWulf FW 190 (t · c) was deproded by Zwilson (t · c) (author) on 21 Oct 2016
• 15 Oct 2016 – Nasuni (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by DGG (t · c) was deproded by Exdejesus (t · c) (author) on 20 Oct 2016
• 14 Oct 2016 – Aasaanjobs.com (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by K.e.coffman (t · c) was deleted
• 14 Oct 2016 – Special menu (Mac OS) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Numbermaniac (t · c) was deleted
• 11 Oct 2016 – Hard drive bleaching (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Alexhaydock (t · c) was redirected to Data_erasure#Full_disk_overwriting (talk · edit · hist)

Categories for discussion

• 08 Oct 2016 – Category:OS X audio editors (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by GeoffreyT2000 (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 13 Oct 2016 – Template:Integrated development environments for Java (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Codename Lisa (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Oct 2016 – Template:Integrated development environments for C and C++ (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Codename Lisa (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 17 Oct 2016 – SMUX (talk · edit · hist) →Simple Network Management Protocol was RfDed by 80.221.159.67 (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – Ua string (talk · edit · hist) →User agent was RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – W3 UA (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – Web UA (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – WWW UA (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – HTTP UA (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – Useragent (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 11 Oct 2016 – HTTP USER AGENT (talk · edit · hist) →User agent RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 20 Oct 2016 – Cray-3 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maury Markowitz (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Oct 2016 – Buffer overflow (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Falcon Kirtaran (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Oct 2016 – BitLocker (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Falcon Kirtaran (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Sep 2016 – Qapital (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CorporateM (t · c); start discussion
• 17 Aug 2016 – Mozilla Public License (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokajanje (t · c); start discussion
• 09 Aug 2016 – Fortinet (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CorporateM (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 16 Oct 2016 – Bitcoin (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Ladislav Mecir (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 24 Oct 2016 – Razer Naga (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Anarchyte (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Aug 2016 – Toshiba T1000LE (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by T1000LE Man (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Nov 2013 – HDMI (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Acalycine (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Apr 2013 – Big data (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Abhishek1605 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Oct 2016 – IP forwarding (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by UU (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2016 – Typeform.com (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Daylen (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Oct 2016 – File shortcut (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by SamB (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Oct 2016 – Hosts (file) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Nyuszika7H (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Oct 2016 – Amazon.com (talk · edit · hist) move request by GeoffreyT2000 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 14 Oct 2016 – Photo sharing (talk · edit · hist) move request by Fixuture (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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Scope and goals

This WikiProject aims to organise, expand and improve all Wikipedia's articles on areas or subjects relating to computers, computing, and information technology. We have a very broad scope, so we hope to collaborate and communicate with other Wikiprojects that overlap our domain.

Our scope includes:
1. History of computing
2. Computer science and computer programming
3. Networking and the Internet
4. Server technology
5. Databases
6. Hardware
7. Computer security
8. Software
9. Operating systems
10. Network programming
11. Software developer

Our goal is to produce detailed, well written and NPOV articles on all topics related to computers.

See also: List of computing topics

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Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's computing 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 Computing}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. Users can also nominate articles for future collaboration.

Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters. A number of additional programs are either underway or being planned.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

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Participants

A list of participants is at WikiProject Computing/Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join this project. Then add the user box {{User WP COMP}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Computing.

to your user page to proudly proclaim your membership

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Templates

The Templates page lists all templates useful in writing and maintaining articles about computing, including infobox, cleanup, stub, and talk page templates.

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Tools

Main tool page: https://tools.wmflabs.org/

• reFill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Cleanup listing

Main tool page: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Main_Page

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references (WARNING: Incorrectly inserts website/work titles into |publisher= instead of |work=; must be used with editor oversight only.)
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Computing

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Article quality

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1	6	5			13
FL			1	9		2	12
FM		1			2		3
A			1	1			2
GA	2	13	39	53		11	118
B	38	108	203	260		75	684
C	56	263	652	944	3	918	2,836
Start	19	301	1,044	4,251	63	5,446	11,124
Stub		6	262	4,312	21	8,748	13,349
List	2	14	87	241	41	357	742
Book					32		32
Category		1	2	3	1,637		1,643
Disambig		1	2	10	58		71
File		1		26	317		344
Portal				2	12		14
Project					71	1	72
Redirect			4	42	1,996	1	2,043
Template	1	3	2	15	414		435
Assessed	119	713	2,305	10,176	4,720	15,560	33,593
Draft				2	53	1	56
Unassessed			4	24		8,052	8,080
Total	119	713	2,309	10,200	4,720	23,612	41,673
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005129462000000000♠129,462			Ω = 5.35

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High-quality content

Featured articles

Featured Articles The featured articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are the best articles in Wikipedia, and the status which all articles should eventually achieve. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Bold article names have been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article". Featured articles 4chan Acid2 Delrina Folding@home Macintosh Classic Manchester Mark 1 Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine Microsoft Security Essentials The Million Dollar Homepage NeXT Parallel computing Rosetta@home Scene7 Former featured articles ASCII Ackermann function Acorn Computers Algorithm Application programming interface Architecture of Btrieve Btrieve C (programming language) Central processing unit Color Graphics Adapter Commodore 64 Computational complexity theory Computer security Copyright CPU cache CUPS Data Encryption Standard Emacs Firefox Floppy disk Fractal GNU/Linux naming controversy GameFAQs History of computing hardware HTTP cookie Illegal prime Java (programming language) Law of Demeter Macintosh Memory Alpha Microsoft Data Access Components Microsoft OpenBSD Opera (web browser) PaX Phishing Quantum computing Reduced instruction set computing Search engine (computing) Search engine optimization Spamming Spyware Storm botnet Ubuntu (operating system) Wikipedia Windows 2000 Windows XP World Wide Web X Window System Featured lists List of computer criminals List of acquisitions by Juniper Networks List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft List of acquisitions by AOL List of acquisitions by Adobe Systems List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet List of acquisitions by eBay List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! List of mergers and acquisitions by Symantec Former featured lists List of mergers and acquisitions by Dell List of mergers and acquisitions by Red Hat Timeline of Macintosh models Featured pictures File:Commodore-64-Computer.jpg File:Glasses 800 edit.png File:Personal computer, exploded 5.svg Main page featured articles Floppy disk (2004-05-13) History of computing hardware (2004-06-23) GNU/Linux naming controversy (2004-07-02) Algorithm (2004-07-20) Copyright (2004-07-27) Fractal (2004-08-19) Data Encryption Standard (2004-08-21) PaX (2004-09-04) Ackermann function (2004-09-24) Emacs (2004-10-04) World Wide Web (2004-11-01) Firefox (2004-11-28) CPU cache (2005-01-07) Windows XP (2005-06-05) Spamming (2005-07-04) CUPS (2005-08-02) X Window System (2005-09-03) Commodore 64 (2005-10-06) Java (programming language) (2005-12-17) Delrina (2006-01-04) Macintosh (2006-02-10) Central processing unit (2006-03-04) OpenBSD (2006-04-10) HTTP cookie (2006-05-08) Microsoft (2006-07-11) Ubuntu (operating system) (2006-08-05) Windows 2000 (2006-09-17) Spyware (2006-11-12) Search engine optimization (2007-07-02) GameFAQs (2007-11-05) Storm botnet (2008-03-16) Phishing (2008-06-21) Macintosh Classic (2008-07-04) NeXT (2008-10-28) Rosetta@home (2008-12-01) 4chan (2009-01-14) Scene7 (2009-02-28) Parallel computing (2009-03-18) Acid2 (2009-04-29) The Million Dollar Homepage (2009-05-10) Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (2009-05-30) Opera (web browser) (2009-08-07) Manchester Mark 1 (2010-11-27) Folding@home (2012-11-01) Microsoft Security Essentials (2012-11-23) Main page featured lists List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft (2012-04-02) List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet (2013-08-12) List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple (2014-06-09)