Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing

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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

18 Oct 2018 – VeChain (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Morgan Ginsberg (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
18 Oct 2018 – BatchSync (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Waggie (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
17 Oct 2018 – SwiftCoin (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Morgan Ginsberg (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
15 Oct 2018 – Mercury Mail Transport System (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Editor-1 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
14 Oct 2018 – Atlantis Word Processor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JzG (t · c); see discussion (10 participants)
11 Oct 2018 – Codie award (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by David Tornheim (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
10 Oct 2018 – Thenextweb (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
10 Oct 2018 – Wpkg (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AtlasDuane (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
08 Oct 2018 – Wikirank.net (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mardetanha (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
03 Oct 2018 – Rebel Pundit (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by NorthBySouthBaranof (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

19 Oct 2018 – Kiwee Toolbar (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Jip Orlando (t · c): Old page about a non-notable toolbar extension. References refer to how to remove it but no in-depth coverage or any new information about it.
17 Oct 2018 – Fotomoto.com (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mean as custard (t · c): Advert for unnotable entity
15 Oct 2018 – SpagoBI (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Rebbing (t · c): The available coverage, including that cited in this article, falls short of the applicable notability guideline (GNG).
19 Oct 2018 – SmartDraw (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Dan arndt (t · c) was deproded by Jovanmilic97 (t · c) on 19 Oct 2018
16 Oct 2018 – Comparison of survey software (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Daiyusha (t · c) was deproded by Mark viking (t · c) on 17 Oct 2018
11 Oct 2018 – Beagle (software) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Toddst1 (t · c) was deproded by Atlantic306 (t · c) on 17 Oct 2018
09 Oct 2018 – DVD Play (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) was deleted
09 Oct 2018 – Consumer alert system (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Teratix (t · c) was deleted
09 Oct 2018 – WxGlade (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Reyk (t · c) was deleted

Redirects for discussion

19 Oct 2018 – \8 (talk · edit · hist) →Backspace was RfDed by Nowak Kowalski (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – PocketGBA (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#Game Boy Advance was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – Virtual Arcade (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#Arcade was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – MagicEngine (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#MagicEngine was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – Goomba (emulator) (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#Game Boy / Game Boy Color was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – Little John Palm (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#Little John PalmOS was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
30 Sep 2018 – Sixtyforce (talk · edit · hist) →List of video game emulators#Nintendo 64 was RfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c)
11 Oct 2018 – Unicode 8 (talk · edit · hist) →Backspace RfDed by Deacon Vorbis (t · c) was closed

Good article nominees

06 Sep 2018 – The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PresN (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			1	10		1	12
FM		1			1		2
A			1	1			2
GA	3	14	40	67		14	138
B	34	121	218	285		116	774
C	61	296	784	1,382	2	1,140	3,665
Start	19	256	1,127	5,558	17	6,254	13,231
Stub	1	10	246	4,538	42	8,442	13,279
List	3	14	96	283	22	396	814
Book					34		34
Category			2	4	2,254		2,260
Disambig		1	2	8	69		80
File				24	322		346
Portal				2	13		15
Project		1			77		78
Redirect		1	9	72	2,411	5	2,498
Template	1	3	2	13	488		507
NA					97		97
Assessed	123	720	2,533	12,253	5,901	16,369	37,899
Draft				1	52	1	54
Unassessed			2	24		7,396	7,422
Total	123	720	2,535	12,277	5,901	23,765	45,321
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005163458000000000♠163,458			Ω = 5.24

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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".