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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.

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Did you know

• 24 Nov 2019 – Caldera International (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Wasted Time R (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 10 Dec 2019 – Elive (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Glades12 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 09 Dec 2019 – Parcel2Go (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Uhooep (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 08 Dec 2019 – RevSpace (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Graywalls (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 06 Dec 2019 – VBS3 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lordtobi (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 06 Dec 2019 – Humane Informatics (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Staszek Lem (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 06 Dec 2019 – Leo Törnqvist (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BilledMammal (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 05 Dec 2019 – Yog-Sothoth.com (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Susmuffin (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 04 Dec 2019 – Streamlabs (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abishe (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)
• 03 Dec 2019 – Sun Microsystems keyboard (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)
• 02 Dec 2019 – RAVPower (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tyw7 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

• 10 Dec 2019 – Comparison of VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Frank (t · c): concern
• 09 Dec 2019 – Macro key (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by FasterLouderWeakerDimmer (t · c) was deproded by John Womble (t · c) on 10 Dec 2019
• 02 Dec 2019 – Yog-Sothoth.com (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ritchie333 (t · c) was deproded by Necrothesp (t · c) on 04 Dec 2019
• 28 Nov 2019 – Opera File System (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by StraussInTheHouse (t · c) was deleted
• 27 Nov 2019 – Information Harvesting (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by StraussInTheHouse (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 27 Nov 2019 was deproded by DGG (t · c) on 04 Dec 2019
• 27 Nov 2019 – Game Theater XP (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by StraussInTheHouse (t · c) was deproded by DGG (t · c) on 04 Dec 2019
• 27 Nov 2019 – Human Trust for Serviceability (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Headbomb (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 02 Dec 2019 – Category:College sports websites (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Dec 2019 – Category:Tamil language blogs (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Dec 2019 – Category:Entertainment websites (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by JIP (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Dec 2019 – Category:Personal finance websites (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Nov 2019 – Category:Polish history websites (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Nov 2019 – Category:Film criticism online (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Nov 2019 – Category:Cloud infrastructure attacks & failures (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Brandmeister (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Dec 2019 – Category:Blogs by language (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 07 Dec 2019 – Online video distributor (talk · edit · hist) →Over-the-top media service was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Dec 2019 – Online Video Distributor (talk · edit · hist) →Over-the-top media service was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Dec 2019 – Chinese spy (talk · edit · hist) →Chinese espionage in the United States was RfDed by Champion (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Nov 2019 – MICRO$OFT (talk · edit · hist) →Criticism of Microsoft was RfDed by UnitedStatesian (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Nov 2019 – Television app (talk · edit · hist) →Smart TV was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Nov 2019 – Dell Financial Services (talk · edit · hist) →Dell was RfDed by Dmehus (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 07 Dec 2019 – Windows Speech Recognition (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ian Wolfman (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Nov 2019 – GOV.UK Verify (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Curb Safe Charmer (t · c); start discussion
• 08 Oct 2019 – Aaron Swartz (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Newslinger (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 09 Dec 2019 – Folding@home (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by GamerPro64 (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 13 Nov 2019 – Apple Inc. litigation (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Nemoschool (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Nov 2019 – Bill Gates (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Hiya111 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2019 – Amazon HQ2 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by BlueMoonset (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 07 Dec 2019 – Unicode (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Alexander Davronov (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Nov 2019 – Julian Assange (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Jtbobwaysf (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Nov 2019 – Bitcoin Cash (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Ladislav Mecir (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 15 Nov 2013 – HDMI (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Acalycine (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 07 Dec 2019 – Doom WAD (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Modding in Doom by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Nov 2019 – Microsoft Lumia (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Lumia (smartphones) by Feminist (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Nov 2019 – TSMC (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company by Nemoschool (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Nov 2019 – Yahoo! View (talk · edit · hist) move request to Yahoo! Screen by SnowFire (t · c) was moved to Yahoo! Screen (talk · edit · hist) by Dekimasu (t · c) on 08 Dec 2019; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 23 Nov 2019 – ExFAT (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to #Adoption by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Nov 2019 – Level editor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Level design by Occono (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Nov 2019 – RNDIS (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ethernet over USB by Initramfs (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Oct 2019 – Adabas D (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to MaxDB by Madacs (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Oct 2019 – List of desktop publishing software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Comparison of desktop publishing software by Jarble (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Oct 2019 – Symsoft (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sinch (company) by Oneiros (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2019 – In-band control (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Data transmission by Incnis Mrsi (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2019 – Out-of-band control (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Data transmission by Incnis Mrsi (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Oct 2019 – Sandbox effect (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Google penalty by SD0001 (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Oct 2019 – Revisable-Form Text (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Document Content Architecture by Quoth-22 (t · c); see discussion

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Articles to be split

• 29 Oct 2019 – MSN (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 5.156.43.166 (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Oct 2019 – Criticism of Facebook (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Newslinger (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Oct 2019 – YouTube (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 9March2019 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 May 2019 – Athlon (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by NotCory (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Dec 2018 – Internet in South Korea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Finnusertop (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Nov 2017 – Wireless Group (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by JSH-alive (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Oct 2017 – ST6 and ST7 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 70.51.45.76 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Oct 2017 – Outliner (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Biogeographist (t · c); see discussion
• 13 May 2017 – Artificial neuron (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 47.32.217.164 (t · c); see discussion
• 09 May 2017 – Kill chain (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by RA0808 (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for creation

• 02 Nov 2019 – Draft:OpenVINO (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Abelyako (t · c)
• 30 Aug 2019 – Draft:MicroG (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Yae4 (t · c)
• 19 Aug 2019 – Draft:BerniePortal (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wduprey33 (t · c)
• 17 Aug 2019 – Draft:Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2A02:AA12:400:F180:C97:54E8:C8D3:EA63 (t · c)
• 15 Aug 2019 – Draft:The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sargyle77 (t · c)
• 13 Aug 2019 – Draft:Embrace ERP (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Datheun (t · c)
• 08 Aug 2019 – Draft:OrangeLoops (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JoseRossiUY (t · c)
• 03 Aug 2019 – Draft:Reality Blurred (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Curatesarrival3 (t · c)
• 02 Aug 2019 – Draft:ARCHLine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bartsch D (t · c)
• 26 Jul 2019 – Draft:Kon-Boot (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Henrypentest (t · c)

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WikiProject Computing
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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

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

See also: List of computing topics

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.

Participants

A list of participants is at WikiProject Computing/Members

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.

Templates

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

Tools

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

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

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

Article quality

• Popular pages

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	2	5	5			13
FL			2	10			12
FM		1			3		4
A				1			1
GA	4	14	41	72		13	144
B	43	130	252	310		127	862
C	70	328	908	1,720	2	1,132	4,160
Start	17	270	1,198	6,557	40	6,156	14,238
Stub		14	171	4,804	72	8,040	13,101
List	3	17	106	593	24	391	1,134
Book					38		38
Category		1	2	3	3,560		3,566
Disambig		1	1	6	76		84
File				24	2,159		2,183
Portal				1	3		4
Project					92		92
Redirect				1	877		878
Template		3	2	6	510		521
NA			8	65	2,634	6	2,713
Draft				8	198		206
Assessed	138	781	2,696	14,186	10,288	15,865	43,954
Unassessed				9		6,921	6,930
Total	138	781	2,696	14,195	10,288	22,786	50,884
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 167,766			Ω = 5.22

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 Digital media use and mental health Folding@home Macintosh Classic Manchester Baby Manchester Mark 1 Microsoft Security Essentials The Million Dollar Homepage NeXT Parallel computing Rosetta@home Former featured articles ASCII Ackermann function Acorn Computers Algorithm Application programming interface Architecture of Btrieve Architecture of Windows NT 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 HTTP cookie History of computing hardware 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 computer Scene7 Search engine (computing) Search engine optimization Spamming Speech synthesis Spyware Storm botnet Ubuntu 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 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:A Specimen by William Caslon.jpg File:Glasses 800 edit.png File:Personal computer, exploded 5.svg File:Sample 09-F9 protest art, Free Speech Flag by John Marcotte.svg Main page featured articles Floppy disk (2004-05-13) Speech synthesis (2004-06-03) 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 (2006-08-05) Windows 2000 (2006-09-17) Spyware (2006-11-12) Search engine optimization (2007-07-02) Architecture of Windows NT (2007-08-19) 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 Baby (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) Digital media use and mental health (2019-11-06) 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)