Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing

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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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Articles for deletion

13 Aug 2018 – FCMOV (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – HLT (x86 instruction) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – INT (x86 instruction) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – JMP (x86 instruction) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – MOVAPD (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – MOVDDUP (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – MOVHPD (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
13 Aug 2018 – TEST (x86 instruction) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
12 Aug 2018 – Trūata (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HighKing (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
11 Aug 2018 – VSD Viewer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nowak Kowalski (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

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Proposed deletions

13 Aug 2018 – Gandalf (theorem prover) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by LukeSurl (t · c): Fails GNG. No independent sources. No assertion of notability.
11 Aug 2018 – Infinit (file transfer) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by K.e.coffman (t · c): Does not meet WP:NSOFT / WP:NPRODUCT or WP:NCORP (as a company) and significant RS coverage not found. Created by Special:Contributions/Mycure as part of an apparent walled garden, which also included a related technology deleted here ...
11 Aug 2018 – Infinit (storage platform) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by K.e.coffman (t · c): Does not meet WP:NSOFT / WP:NPRODUCT and significant RS coverage not found. Created by Special:Contributions/Mycure as part of an apparent walled garden, which also included a related technology deleted here: [[Wikipedia:Articles for dele ...
11 Aug 2018 – Veracity Systems (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dialectric (t · c): software corp article of unclear notability, lacking significant coverage in independent references, tagged for notability since 2013, and created by an SPA as possibly promotional.
10 Aug 2018 – Peersites (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mccapra (t · c): Short-lived, unsourced, not notable and endorsed by Champion (t · c) on 10 Aug 2018: Seconded, does not appear to pass WP:NCORP or WP:GNG
07 Aug 2018 – Flip button (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Teratix (t · c): Can't find usage of the term in any sources.
11 Aug 2018 – Non-speech audio input (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Mccapra (t · c) was deproded by Mark viking (t · c) on 12 Aug 2018
05 Aug 2018 – HSBRA (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Mccapra (t · c) was deleted
02 Aug 2018 – Data-structured language (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Enterprisey (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

06 Jul 2018 – Category:People associated with Anonymous (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

13 Aug 2018 – Apple TV (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JC7V7DC5768 (t · c); start discussion
17 Jul 2017 – MIDI (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GoAnimateFan199Pro (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
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/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

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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: 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

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Article quality

Popular pages

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	2	5	5			13
FL			2	10			12
FM		1			1		2
A			1	1			2
GA	3	14	42	62		16	137
B	36	119	209	279		102	745
C	64	300	786	1,344	1	1,069	3,564
Start	19	269	1,148	5,612	22	5,968	13,038
Stub	1	11	253	4,700	72	8,312	13,349
List	2	14	97	281	41	376	811
Book					33		33
Category		1	2	4	2,234		2,241
Disambig		1	2	9	67		79
File		1		24	321		346
Portal				2	13		15
Project		2			73		75
Redirect			9	80	2,242	7	2,338
Template	1	3	2	14	483		503
NA				2	147		149
Assessed	127	738	2,558	12,431	5,813	15,855	37,522
Draft				2	63	5	70
Unassessed			4	30		7,529	7,563
Total	127	738	2,562	12,461	5,813	23,384	45,085
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005162392000000000♠162,392			Ω = 5.25

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High-quality content

Featured Articles

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WP:COMP/FA

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".