Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing

  

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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Amiga (talk) Apple Inc. (talk) Macintosh task force (talk) iOS task force (talk) Computer science (talk) Databases (talk) Computer Security (talk) Computer Vision (talk) Intel (talk) Internet (talk) Internet culture (talk) IRC (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)
Parent WikiProject
Technology (talk)
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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

  

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 22 May 2013 – ProDG (software) (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Andy Dingley (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 May 2013 – Missy USA (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Delicious carbuncle (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 17 May 2013 – Adobe OnLocation (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Bejnar (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 15 May 2013 – Windows Phone version history (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by ViperSnake151 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 14 May 2013 – Piwigo (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Jac16888 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
• 11 May 2013 – Gammu (software) (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Jac16888 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 11 May 2013 – Wammu (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Jac16888 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
• 09 May 2013 – WebDrive (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Bob Re-born (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
• 08 May 2013 – GetTickCount (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Kephir (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 05 May 2013 – ExitProcess (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Sfan00 IMG (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)

(4 more...)

Proposed deletions

• 22 May 2013 – TV Anytime (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by Palfrey (t · c): Primarily an advert for a product which https://getsatisfaction.com/tvanytime says is now dead
• 17 May 2013 – Decibel (KDE) (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by Arved (t · c): Announcement for a framwork under development, but development has ceased before any major application used it. Arved (talk) 13:58, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
• 16 May 2013 – Eloquera database (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by Legoktm (t · c): Non-notable, likely written by a contributor connected to the company
• 15 May 2013 – Eric Gooch (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by Senator2029 (t · c): Insufficient independent sources exist to create a meaningful article.
• 13 May 2013 – Federico Heinz (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by 170.51.242.156 (t · c): reason
• 16 May 2013 – Aza Raskin (talk ·  · hist) PRODed by 67.188.179.115 (t · c) was deproded by Diego Moya (t · c) on 16 May 2013
• 13 May 2013 – MetaBB (talk ·  · hist) PRODed by Misha412 (t · c) was deleted
• 13 May 2013 – Opus (content management system) (talk ·  · hist) PRODed by Captain Conundrum (t · c) was deleted
• 12 May 2013 – ERP for Apparel and Footwear Industry (talk ·  · hist) PRODed by Tassedethe (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 21 May 2013 – Category:Computer pioneers (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Obiwankenobi (t · c); see discussion
• 13 May 2013 – Category:Free, open source roguelikes (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Apr 2013 – Category:Computer law legislation (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Timtrent (t · c); see discussion

Files for deletion

• 13 May 2013 – File:OpenEmuHeroScreenshot.jpg (talk ·  · hist) was FfDed by B (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2013 – File:OS X Mountain Lion kernel panic.jpg (talk ·  · hist) was FfDed by TenPoundHammer (t · c); see discussion
• 14 May 2013 – File:RIP bleem.jpg (talk ·  · hist) FfDed by Stefan2 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Miscellany for deletion

• 21 May 2013 – Portal:Mozilla (talk ·  · hist) was MfDed by Edgars2007 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 14 May 2013 – Valor por Tamaulipas (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by ComputerJA (t · c); start discussion
• 14 May 2013 – Anonymous (group) (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Khazar2 (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 08 May 2013 – Wikipedia (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by Paine Ellsworth (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Apr 2013 – Litecoin (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by 198.144.156.55 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Dec 2012 – Microsoft Office Document Imaging (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by Codename Lisa (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 24 Apr 2013 – Charles Babbage (talk ·  · hist) has been put up for PR by Casliber (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Apr 2013 – Big data (talk ·  · hist) has been put up for PR by Abhishek1605 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 21 May 2013 – Free software license (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved by Gronky (t · c); see discussion
• 21 May 2013 – System on a chip (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved by ViperSnake151 (t · c); see discussion
• 20 May 2013 – Dropbox (service) (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved by Compfreak7 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 May 2013 – AirPlay (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved by 1292simon (t · c); see discussion
• 09 May 2013 – Scrum (development) (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved by Me and (t · c); see discussion

  

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/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

  

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: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Computing

  

Article quality

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	3	1	7	6				17
FL		1	1	9				11
FM		1			2			3
A			1					1
GA	3	13	37	22			3	78
B	39	102	174	179			166	660
C	47	162	374	474			361	1,418
Start	11	207	678	2,191	5	1	2,408	5,501
Stub	2	63	233	2,393			8,921	11,612
List	4	8	64	176	27		141	420
Book					26			26
Category		1	1	2	682			686
Disambig			2	12	31			45
File				25	338			363
Portal					9			9
Project					64			64
Redirect			2	15	363		1	381
Template	1	3	2	6	281			293
Assessed	110	562	1,576	5,510	1,828	1	12,001	21,588
Unassessed			17	37			8,995	9,049
Total	110	562	1,593	5,547	1,828	1	20,996	30,637
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005105335000000000105,335			Ω = 5.44

  

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