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Pixologist rewritten

Hi, I've rewritten pixologist and encourage you to visit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pixologist to see if concerns have been addressed. Please note that a name change to pixel artist is almost assured if the article is kept. ;;Banjeboi 21:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Knol site infringing on Wikipedia articles about computing

The site http://knol.google.com/k (Knol) is mirroring articles, in part or in whole, from Wikipedia about computing without any acknowledgement of Wikipedia or the GFDL. See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Knol for more information. I have flagged a few knol articles, but I have not made any further contacts with Knol about the infringement because any complaints should come from contributors to one or more of the articles. If any editor who has contributed to any of the affected articles about computing in Wikipedia wants to pursue this, please follow the process described in Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks#Non-compliance process. (I adapted this message from Donald Albury's) -84user (talk) 16:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Microsoft's SQL Server

I'm just an ordinary person trying to find out what Microsoft's SQL Server is - like can I remove the 4 SQL programs, which, among all sorts of other junk, are filling up my new Vista laptop. But Wikipedia's explanation is just like the rest, it just doesn't get around to being that simple for the one or two sentences it would take to explain what it does in completely lay terms. Thanks anyway! Numus (talk) 19:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

MBTA vs. Anderson

I would appreciate if anyone could lend a hand in fleshing out the MBTA vs. Anderson case. Madcoverboy (talk) 19:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Error that needs corrected

The Palm OS Simulator page has a factual error. See its discussion page.

GeneWeb should be maintained

GeneWeb should be maintained as it is one of the beste and most complete application to build and maintain a genealogic database. It offers perfect solutions for working either local or over the web (as I do) and it creates lists and reports which are ready to publish

82.92.154.216 (talk) 07:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Herman van Twillert

Need Review Help

I am looking to create a new article for Abaca Technology Corp, an anti-spam provider. I do in fact work with the company. I was told that this is the best place to get feedback on the article etc.

Would definitely appreciate some help/feedback/comments or someone to steer me in the right direction.

Draft on my user page

Thanks in advance

Jbiggs19 (talk) 19:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I looked over the article, and the history section looks well referenced. I think the products section needs some expansion. Right now it does kind of look like advertising. Rather than just listing the products that they have and the version, try say what in general their products do, and then include their products when talking about specific features. Just a thought though... SOL Basic 22:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

what is going on with my page. I thought it was on its way to going live but now i feel like its not. Can someone explain what is going on? Eastvillage1 (talk) 18:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Truss (Unix) directs to page with no mention of it

Hi,

Went looking for information on the Unix (solaris) command "truss", and got specifically redirected to a page for it... that contains no mention of it whatsoever:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_(Unix)

Seems a bit wrong... ?

128.184.132.38 (talk) 23:41, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

This may be because it is a Unix Utility, but it is not included in the IEEE standard. I haven't looked at the standard, so I can't say for sure. SOL Basic 01:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiGroup Hacking

I'd like to propose a WikiGroup under WikiProject Computing for a social Wikipedian group to discuss hacking. --Melab^-1 00:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

What, precisely, do you *mean* by hacking? There's already a Computer and Information Security task force. Do you propose a "computer enthusiasts" group, or a "computer criminals" group? Jclemens (talk) 01:01, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

A computer enthusiasts groups not a criminals group. And I'm not talking about sharing criminal tips. --Melab^-1 23:04, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

ITIL - Definition of Service Request needed

In reviewing the content of the ITIL page, I noted that while there are references to "Service Request Management" (as defined under separate topic) and the "Service Reqeuest", the term Service Request is never defined.

ITIL apparently offers no clear definition here, so I would propose the following:

- A Service Request is any request to the Service Desk submitted by a User

While this seems somewhat simplistic and circular, I am intentionally avoiding the issues which come into play by introducing terms like "incident" or "change", and for this reason. When a user submits a Service Request to the Service Desk, they are simply requesting service. It is up to the Service Desk to determine how to classify the request either as an incident (service not performing according to configuration or specification) or change (change to the configuration, environment, or infrastructure).

Given the amount of confusion around this term (i.e. - is Service Request the same as Change Request?), I think that calling out a clear definition here would be helpful.Ronb1224 (talk) 18:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)ronb1224

01:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot assisted Auto Assessment

Now TinucherianBot is able to autoassess for a wikiproject based on already assessed other project ratings on the same article talk page( see BRFA ).

The bot basically does this : It looks at the Talk: page for an article, and looks at the classes it has been given. Then, it adds the highest class to the template for the project that it is working for, say {{WikiProject Computing}} here. E.g. if a talk page of article has one Project banner with 'Start' class and 'B' class from another Project banner, '|class=B' will be added to the Project banner class to our project banner.

Currentlty there are over 18,000 Unassessed articles for our project and I was thinking whether we should this excerise for WP:COMP. We had done such exercises for project like WP:INDIA, WP:Christianity etc and was very successful.We may get a very few false positives (less than 5% (max) I would imagine) but it's a small price to pay for the huge benefit of automation. Also, a false positive is likely to result in the article being identified and properly assessed, which might not otherwise happen. This process saves hours of work for human editors, leaving them free to actually improve the articles in question. Thoughts? -- Tinu Cherian - 07:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I dont see any objections for this. I will wait for a day or two and start the autoassessment for the project -- Tinu Cherian - 07:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... : Working on the autoassessment for the project with TinucherianBot -- Tinu Cherian - 07:38, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done : Around 2500 articles were autoassesed for the project based on other already done assessments on the same page. Next phase involving stub assessments based of stub categories like Category:Computer stubs . -- Tinu Cherian - 10:57, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done : Approximately 8000 articles were autoassessed as stubs based on stub categories -- Tinu Cherian - 10:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Review for Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Just a note to let the project know that this article has been placed on hold following its GA Sweeps Review, which can be found here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:04, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Asus contains apparent opinion / editorializing with suspicious cites

Asus contains a section Asus#Poor_RMA_support_in_the_UK.2C_and_similar_issues_in_the_USA with what looks to me like opinion / editorializing, and which is cited to various online forums and blogs which would seem to me to fail WP:RELIABLE. Could people who are familiar with this topic please review this and adjust anything that needs it? Thanks. -- 201.17.36.246 (talk) 00:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed archive for cited web pages

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Wiki_cache_for_references has a proposal to cover the risk of cited web pages going offline or being taken over by advertisers / domain resellers. Computing articles are vulnerable because a lot of coverage is web-based. I suggest WikiProject Computing should pitch in, and also post on the Talk pages of any other Wikiprojects that would be seriously hurt by the disappearance of important pages / sites. I've posted similar notices at WP:DINO, WP:PALEO ,WikiProject Chess and WikiProject Video Games. -- Philcha (talk) 10:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the motivation, since web pages that cover computer topics are likely to become obsolete and be taken down, even if the domain doesn't go away. (How many web-based references will you find for the ISA bus these days? What about MCA?) However, is there a reason that the archives at [1] aren't suitable or sufficient? Perhaps WF could work together with archive.org to ensure that the pages referenced here, even the specific versions referenced here, are archived. Jeh (talk) 12:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Is Universal Product Code in your project's scope?

An IP user has recently added your project's banner to Talk:Universal Product Code, along with several others and other talk page banners. If this article is really in your project's scope, please rate it; otherwise please remove the banner. Thanks! Anomie⚔ 21:25, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

SF framing content is not matching with the diagram of figure 2

Hi, In SF framing section of DS1 aricle is given that

1. The terminal frame alignment channel is carried in odd-numbered frames inside the super frame and occurs with the DS0 channel synchronization.

2. Signaling frame alignment channel is carried in even-numbered frames inside the super frame and is used for signaling frame alignment

In the figure 2 of this section it is written that Singal frame alignment bits 101010. [Took all the odd numbered frame] Terminal frame alignment bits 001101. [Took all the even numbered frame]

If I am not wrong then according to point 1 & 2 mentioned above

Terminal frame aligment bits should be 101010 and Signal frame alignment biths should be 001101.

Would you please help -- whether I am right or wrong in pointing out the problem in the content or my understanding about the matter needs more polish

SF framing content is not matching with the diagram of figure 2

Hi, In SF framing section of DS1 aricle is given that

1. The terminal frame alignment channel is carried in odd-numbered frames inside the super frame and occurs with the DS0 channel synchronization.

2. Signaling frame alignment channel is carried in even-numbered frames inside the super frame and is used for signaling frame alignment

In the figure 2 of this section it is written that Singal frame alignment bits 101010. [Took all the odd numbered frame] Terminal frame alignment bits 001101. [Took all the even numbered frame]

If I am not wrong then according to point 1 & 2 mentioned above

Terminal frame aligment bits should be 101010 and Signal frame alignment biths should be 001101.

Would you please help -- whether I am right or wrong in pointing out the problem in the content or my understanding about the matter needs more polish

Regards,

Somnath —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raysomnath (talk • contribs) 08:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Computing

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

NtEd has nothing to do with KDE

I'm Jörg Anders, the author of both NoteEdit and NtEd. You have a list of score writers at:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scorewriters

         "NtEd (a KDE scorewriter ..."

This is wrong. In contrast to NoteEdit NtEd has nothing to do with KDE. One of my goals with NtEd was to minimize the library usage, because the voluptuous library usage was one of the greatest points of criticism. The main difference between NoteEdit and NtEc is: In contrast to NoteEdit NtEd is a real WYSIWYG editor. NoteEdit exports to (for example) LilyPond. The LilyPond processor creates the PostScript outpput. But because LilyPond applies its own placing algorithms (and own note symbols), what you see on printer output is not

what you see an computer monitor.

NtEd has a direct PostScript output which matches exactly what is shown on computer monitor.

Furthermore: NoteEdit places the notes on a imaginary endless paper. NtEd groups the notes into systems as usual in the musical score writing.

Personally, I think NoteEdit shouldn't be used any longer. Especially because meanwhile NtEd can (almost) all what NoteEdit could. But the score looks much better, because of the antialiasing. And all those who want to use LilyPond can do it, because like NoteEdit NtEd offers a LilyPond export feature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.109.192.216 (talk) 15:31, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

OJS

The OJS article is in real bad shape, and needs to be rewritten. I will try and work on it some myself, but I looked it up because I knew nothing about it, so you can see why my ability to improve it is limited. It reads like an AD, and has no structure. --MahaPanta (talk) 17:15, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Plurality_(company) proposed for deletion

Some hardware expert input would be helpful. VG ☎ 19:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Uncertain data

This article is up for deletion and needs some editors with knowledge and some familiarity to help determine it's fate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uncertain data. Any hep appreciated. -- Banjeboi 15:55, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Stubs

Question: I could usefully contribute to an article qualified as "stub", but that would amount to duplicating a lot of what is already provided in a link to gnu.org. Is that advisable ? Frederic Y Bois (talk) 12:29, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

link error

In the article on "Superkey", in the second paragraph the link to "cardinality" is to the wrong sense. It should be to "Cardinality(data modeling)". Don't you think?

=avallone (talk) 15:58, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Review of Itanium

Just a note to let the project know that Itanium has been placed on hold following its GA Sweeps Review, which can be found here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 14:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Someone else may want to take a look at this, as I have a COI and cannot. Jclemens (talk) 15:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Photogenics

I remember Photogenics from my Amiga days. Its just been proposed for deletion. If you guys can add some stuff relating to notability it might be saved. simonthebold (talk) 16:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Found one news source, added it, and deprodded it. If someone wants to AfD it, it might not survive, but it at least has one source now. Jclemens (talk) 01:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Logical data model, Logical schema and Semantic data model

Hi, I wonder if you could take a look at these three articles. I wonder if the subjects of these articles are about one single subject, or if they are different. I just made a proposal to merge them in the Logical data model article, see Talk:Logical data model. But I am not so sure here. Thanks. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Extended file attributes and BeOS

Hi, I wonder why the article on extended file attributes doesn't list BeOS, as this operating system uses extended attributes extensively and thus would be a good example for real-world usage. Do you think a "BeOS" section should be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.187.159.248 (talk) 12:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

If there's a good, reliable source that documents this, it should be relatively straightforward and noncontroversial to add this. For something like that, the BeOS documentation should be fine. Jclemens (talk) 15:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Etymology

Does anyone know the origins of the "RAR" part of the name "WinRAR"? ScarySquirrel (talk) 08:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Look here. Greetings --Kgfleischmann (talk) 08:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

SNI support in Google Chrome

I tried to verify if google chrome supports SNI by visiting https://bob.sni.velox.ch/ It says that Google Chrome isn't sending client hello during SSL connection setup. Hence it is not supporting SNI. So I think we should remove Google Chrome from page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

--203.187.130.194 (talk) 10:02, 25 October 2008 (UTC) Vinay Y S

GA Sweeps review of Comment (computer programming)

Comment (computer programming) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:15, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

What are those top importance stubs?

Is there an easy way to figure out what those 2 top importance stubs are? Shinobu (talk) 03:48, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Reassessment of Mac OS X

Mac OS X has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:08, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Libraries

Hi Guys. Recently I've been looking at ClanLib, which lead me onto Category:C++ libraries, and then the other library categories. I've noticed that very few of these articles would appear to come close to the WP:Notability guidelines, so I was wondering if this project has a specific guideline for inclusion of libaries, or other thoughts on the matter. There are a lot of these articles and wanted to check with this project before I started slapping on maintainance tags / prods. Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 14:37, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Since no-one has any opinion on this, I will begin proposing some of these articles for deletion. Marasmusine (talk) 15:46, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Anyone's opinion would be slanted according to the libraries he's been working with. From my viewpoint, notable would be ATL, Boost C++, BGI and Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC). But any non-1.0 (i.e. mature enough) library worth its salt should have more than one good book written about it. MaxVT (talk) 19:52, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

For me the list would be quite a bit longer and different. There are things like zerolib, MOGRE, Axiom, ODE, and Newton, but also things like SDL, SDL.NET, OpenGL, DirectX, XNA and other more popular libraries. IMO you cannot draw any line for whether a library is relevant or not. Especially because most libraries don't get a lot of attention, because they don't do anything on their own.

Stub-class articles are just about perfect for libraries: Provide a short description about it, provide a link to the official page, the end. Libraries don't need any more than that, but deleting tons of (helpful!) entries because they don't fit into your guidelines is ridiculous.

--zeroflag (talk) 19:35, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

HP Voodoo

Hello, I am the PR manager for the HP Voodoo team, have proposed and made the following factual changes to the Blackbird 002 page, which has been flagged to be a part of the Computing Wikiproject. Please let me know if there are any comments on these changes. Thank you! Afinnie (talk) 21:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Introduction:

Addition: “Since it launched in September 2007,” the Blackbird 002 has won ...

Addition: including “one from” C-NET, which ...

Deletion: “It received similar reviews from other review magazines and web sites.”

Deletion: “The Blackbird 002 is also the first PC to include the nVidia Geforce 9800 GT Video card, which has still yet to be disclosed to the public or even released to the public.”

Performance and design:

Deletion: “The Blackbird’s chassis, with fins on top that look like an accordion, and along with every other element of the system were designed to contribute to both its dynamic look and extreme performance.”

Deletion: Built “exclusively” with industry standard ...

Aluminum chassis and foot:

Deletion: “most striking feature is its”

Deletion: “, which”

Liquid cooling and thermals:

Deletion: The HP Blackbird 002 “is the first in its class to feature”

Addition: ‘features” full system ...

Tool-less architecture:

Addition: All of the “internal” components of ...

Deletion: “, from the CPU and GPU to the hard drives,”

Addition: without tools “via a” removable side panel

Deletion: “. The”

Deletion: “allows quick and easy access to the interior of the system.”

Reviews and awards:

Addition: CPU Magazine “gave it” 4 out of 5

Criticism and issues:

Deletion: “Another complaint has been that the unit comes with a skimpy one year parts and labor warranty, unusual given its steep price tag.”

Edit: “Exhilaration Edition” (spelling error)

Sinclair Research

Sinclair Research has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Ruslik (talk) 08:23, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

MikroTik proposed for deletion

Router hardware and software company MikroTik has been proposed for deletion. Perhaps someone from this WikiProject has some thoughts on the matter? If so, please post them here. Thanks! —Zalktis (talk) 12:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

IE-6 restrict connections tab in Internet properties

How can I restrict LAN SETTINGS under connections tab in Internet Options, in a user profile group policy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.154.10.193 (talk) 04:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Mark Robbins at AfD

I'd appreciate it if some of you experts could cast an eye over this. Is this guy really notable? --Dweller (talk) 11:48, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I've never heard of him, nor do any of the things that are claimed in the article seem notable to me. Jclemens (talk) 18:46, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Embedded Systems

Hello May I ask if you'd consider to add "Embedded Systems" (such as 8051, J2ME, Android, ...) as the tenth member to the scope of WikiProject Computing? I think they are not quite like hardware or software in their traditional sense yet they are (IMHO) significant in the technology world. --Friend2008 (talk) 18:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

It's a significant field of study and technology, with separate courses in engineering and compsci departments and treated as a separate engineering specialty. Do we have, or could we create, enough GA-quality articles to merit a separate classification? - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 18:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, it is a bit obscure, so many articles in this "pre-classification" have not been assessed. There is definitely enough material to at least begin...

Microcontroller, PIC, 8051, RTOS, BASIC Stamp, VxWorks (unaccessed); Atmel AVR (Start), Embedded system (B) MaxVT (talk) 19:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Those are all relevant, and all have significant content, I'm in favor of an "embedded" label. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 19:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)