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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.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 19 Mar 2019 – Turbo Launcher (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The Grid (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 19 Mar 2019 – Alec Muffett (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Valereee (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 19 Mar 2019 – UberConference (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 18 Mar 2019 – Andrew Newman (Cyber security entrepreneur) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Justlettersandnumbers (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 18 Mar 2019 – RadiologyCafe (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JJMC89 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 16 Mar 2019 – HotNewHipHop (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by STATicVapor (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 16 Mar 2019 – Emma Haruka Iwao (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Melcous (t · c); see discussion (15 participants)
• 14 Mar 2019 – Microsoft Imagine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mstrojny (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 12 Mar 2019 – Uno (software) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 10 Mar 2019 – Small matter of programming (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ToBeFree (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

• 18 Mar 2019 – Firebird BBS (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – Fedora Unified Network Controller (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – Claris OfficeMail (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – IDIS (software) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – NewsMan Pro (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – Nn (newsreader) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – Ivory BBS (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): concern
• 16 Mar 2019 – Roockbuilder (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by StraussInTheHouse (t · c): concern
• 16 Mar 2019 – Exxset (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mccapra (t · c): concern
• 18 Mar 2019 – Host (Unix) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Piotrus (t · c) was deproded by Djm-leighpark (t · c) on 19 Mar 2019

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Templates for discussion

• 16 Mar 2019 – Template:C Sharp (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Zackmann08 (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 20 Mar 2019 – HSW Brasil (talk · edit · hist) →HowStuffWorks was RfDed by Goveganplease (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2019 – We-Keep-eIdea (talk · edit · hist) →Wikipedia was RfDed by Goveganplease (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Feb 2019 – Human Readable Interpretation (talk · edit · hist) →Barcode was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Feb 2019 – Human-readable interpretation (talk · edit · hist) →Barcode was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Feb 2019 – Human readable interpretation (talk · edit · hist) →Barcode was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

• 17 Mar 2019 – File:Windows NT 3.1 Logo.png (talk · edit · hist) (on Windows NT 3.1) was FfDed by Adam9007 (t · c); see discussion

Miscellany for deletion

• 16 Mar 2019 – Draft:ResetEra (talk · edit · hist) was MfDed by Legacypac (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 30 Jan 2019 – Terry A. Davis (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Newslinger (t · c); start discussion

Good article reassessments

• 20 Mar 2019 – Apple TV (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Aircorn (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 01 Mar 2019 – Gab (social network) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by GorillaWarfare (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Mar 2019 – NationStates (talk · edit · hist) RfC by AyyImHere (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Peer reviews

• 31 Jan 2019 – Unisound (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Redwards21 (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Nov 2013 – HDMI (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Acalycine (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 19 Mar 2019 – VLDB conference (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Oneforfortytwo (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Mar 2019 – Manjaro Linux (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Mstrojny (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Mar 2019 – CHICKEN (Scheme implementation) (talk · edit · hist) move request by Jerryobject (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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)
Descendant WikiProjects
Amiga (talk) Apple Inc. (talk) Macintosh task force (talk) iOS task force (talk) Computer science (talk) Databases (talk) Computer Security (talk) Computer Vision (talk) Information Architecture (talk) Intel (talk) Internet (talk) Internet culture (talk) IRC (talk) Natural language processing (talk) Websites (talk) Blogging (talk) Podcasting (talk) Microsoft (talk) Microsoft Windows (talk) C++ (talk) Java (talk) Perl (talk) RISC OS (talk) Software (talk) Free Software (talk) Linux (talk) Desktop Linux (talk)
Parent WikiProject
Technology (talk)
Related WikiProjects
Apps (talk) Cryptography (talk) Graphic design (talk) QRpedia (talk) Telecommunications (talk) Typography (talk) Video games (talk) Webcomics work group (talk)
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

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	4	4		1	12
FL			2	10			12
FM		1			1		2
A				1			1
GA	3	13	42	64		19	141
B	39	120	223	279		163	824
C	67	307	823	1,498	2	1,191	3,888
Start	15	255	1,145	5,988	18	6,219	13,640
Stub		12	250	4,699	55	8,185	13,201
List	2	13	98	581	21	406	1,121
Book					34		34
Category		1	2	5	2,339		2,347
Disambig		1	1	6	74		82
File				24	323		347
Portal				2	25		27
Project		1			82		83
Redirect			8	78	3,344	2	3,432
Template		3	2	7	498		510
NA					82		82
Assessed	127	729	2,601	13,246	6,941	16,187	39,831
Draft			1		43	1	45
Unassessed		1	1	21		7,129	7,152
Total	127	730	2,602	13,267	6,941	23,316	46,983
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005166149000000000♠166,149			Ω = 5.23

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 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:Glasses 800 edit.png File:Personal computer, exploded 5.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) 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)