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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. That's all. Join us! Wikipedians

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Did you know

• 17 May 2022 – Google Wallet (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by InfiniteNexus (t · c); see discussion
• 10 May 2022 – Electronic Arrays 9002 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Maury Markowitz (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2022 – Pytest (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thomas Meng (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 22 May 2022 – Mrwhosetheboss (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ari T. Benchaim (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 21 May 2022 – Artists' Bluebook (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abani79 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 19 May 2022 – Alex Sharpe (cybersecurity) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ingenuity (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 19 May 2022 – Interoperable PDK Libraries (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 19 May 2022 – ETTN (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Asilvering (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 17 May 2022 – Ian Coldwater (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WikiEditor93B (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 17 May 2022 – Power-up in standby (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 17 May 2022 – Spin-up (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 17 May 2022 – DirectDL (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Theroadislong (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 16 May 2022 – S6 (software) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by MarioGom (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 17 May 2022 – List of Macintosh models by case type (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by David Fuchs (t · c): concern and endorsed by TenPoundHammer (t · c) on 17 May 2022
• 17 May 2022 – RWTH FSA Toolkit (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Extraordinary Writ (t · c): concern
• 14 May 2022 – Parallel Processing Letters (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by TenPoundHammer (t · c) was deproded by TenPoundHammer (t · c) on 15 May 2022
• 14 May 2022 – KTurtle (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by TenPoundHammer (t · c) was deleted
• 14 May 2022 – V6 (Perl) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 85.48.185.126 (t · c) was deleted
• 10 May 2022 – Spin-up (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Zxcvbnm (t · c) was deproded by Lurking shadow (t · c) on 17 May 2022

Categories for discussion

• 22 May 2022 – Category:Free biovisualization software (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 22 May 2022 – Category:Biovisualization software (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 18 May 2022 – Category:Discontinued smartphones (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 18 May 2022 – Template:Honorversewiki (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Jonesey95 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 May 2022 – Template:Ethernet parameters (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Jonesey95 (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2022 – Template:Computer shortcuts (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Jonesey95 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 19 May 2022 – Content filtering - Spam (talk · edit · hist) →Email filtering was RfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 May 2022 – Youtune (talk · edit · hist) →YouTube was RfDed by Slenderman7676 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 May 2022 – The Demented Cartoon Movie (talk · edit · hist) →Albino Blacksheep was RfDed by MSGJ (t · c); see discussion
• 07 May 2022 – Googl (talk · edit · hist) →Google was RfDed by Feminist (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

• 15 May 2022 – File:AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor Logo.svg (talk · edit · hist) (on Athlon 64 X2) was FfDed by Zerranto (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 22 Apr 2022 – Windows 3.1x (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vacant0 (t · c); start discussion
• 18 Apr 2022 – Windows 2.1x (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vacant0 (t · c); start discussion
• 18 Apr 2022 – Windows 2.0x (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vacant0 (t · c); start discussion
• 17 Apr 2022 – Windows 1.0x (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vacant0 (t · c); start discussion
• 15 Apr 2022 – HBO Max (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kp2016rockin (t · c); start discussion
• 05 Apr 2022 – Pytest (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thomas Meng (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Mar 2022 – Computer program (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Timhowardriley (t · c); start discussion
• 24 Feb 2022 – Timnit Gebru (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SquareInARoundHole (t · c); start discussion
• 18 Feb 2022 – Cher Scarlett (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SquareInARoundHole (t · c); start discussion
• 05 Feb 2022 – Bellesa (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bilorv (t · c); start discussion

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Good article reassessments

• 16 Mar 2022 – Watson (computer) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 21 May 2022 – OpenSearch (software) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Macrakis (t · c); see discussion
• 02 May 2022 – Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Jtbobwaysf (t · c); see discussion
• 02 May 2022 – Hospitality Club (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Flexman (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 19 Feb 2022 – History of the World Wide Web (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Brunnock (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 21 May 2022 – Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Proposed acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk by ZimZalaBim (t · c); see discussion
• 16 May 2022 – Java (programming language) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Java by Rusty4321 (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2022 – OpenSearch (software) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to OpenSearch by Macrakis (t · c); see discussion
• 05 May 2022 – ISO/IEC base media file format (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to ISO base media file format by Mulligatawny (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Apr 2022 – Redmi 1 (talk · edit · hist) move request to Xiaomi Red Rice by 9ninety (t · c) was moved to Redmi (phone) (talk · edit · hist) by Dekimasu (t · c) on 16 May 2022; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 19 May 2022 – Extended reality (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Extended reality learning by Whiteguru (t · c); see discussion
• 17 May 2022 – Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Comparison of mobile Internet Relay Chat clients by Twomithe (t · c); see discussion
• 16 May 2022 – Multiprocessing Services (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Carbon (API) by MarioGom (t · c); see discussion
• 12 May 2022 – List of filename extensions (M–R) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of filename extensions by 2402:8100:2388:4A42:378:5634:1232:5476 (t · c); see discussion
• 09 May 2022 – Innobase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Oracle Corporation by Northamerica1000 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Apr 2022 – Software analyst (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Systems analyst by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Apr 2022 – Electronic article (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Article (publishing) by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Apr 2022 – Design of the FAT file system (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to File Allocation Table by Sdkb (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Apr 2022 – Drift (data science) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Concept drift by MarioGom (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Apr 2022 – Search engine (computing) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Search engine by 50.60.38.40 (t · c); see discussion

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Articles to be split

• 02 May 2022 – Self-driving car (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Geysirhead (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Apr 2022 – Applications of artificial intelligence (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Apr 2022 – Anonymous (hacker group) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Mar 2022 – Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by QuarioQuario54321 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Jan 2022 – Dell (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by SpuriousCorrelation (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2021 – Illegal opcode (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chatul (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Nov 2021 – Physical media (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AnAbandonedMall (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2021 – CDC Cyber (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HTW217 (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Oct 2021 – Zebra striping (computer graphics) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by J3133 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Oct 2021 – QWERTY (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by John Maynard Friedman (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for creation

• 19 May 2022 – Draft:Safe Surfer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kirwan at Safe Surfer (t · c)
• 18 May 2022 – Draft:Pericent (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Manojcsl (t · c)
• 18 May 2022 – Draft:EVMagz (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Julianma234 (t · c)
• 18 May 2022 – Draft:The Chenab Times (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheChunky (t · c)
• 17 May 2022 – Draft:Property Finder (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lolomfirst (t · c)
• 17 May 2022 – Draft:APISIX (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fantastic learner (t · c)
• 14 May 2022 – Draft:Jamovi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cole Davis writer (t · c)
• 13 May 2022 – Draft:Cove.tool (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ClimateGuardians (t · c)
• 13 May 2022 – Draft:Dr.Explain (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CraneDY (t · c)
• 13 May 2022 – Draft:JXL (software) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Stationchief (t · c)

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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	1	3	2			7
FL			2	9			11
FM					25		25
A			1				1
GA	5	14	40	91		18	168
B	66	158	289	381	2	184	1,080
C	78	377	1,054	2,661	5	1,354	5,529
Start	7	251	1,195	7,680	70	6,456	15,659
Stub		7	168	5,056	204	7,592	13,027
List	3	23	121	703	36	390	1,276
Category		1	2	3	3,980		3,986
Disambig		1	1	8	89		99
File				25	3,349		3,374
Portal				2	3		5
Project					102		102
Redirect		1	14	87	3,839	1	3,942
Template		3	5	9	1,879		1,896
NA					1		1
Draft			6	2	801		809
Assessed	160	837	2,901	16,719	14,385	15,995	50,997
Unassessed			1	4		6,689	6,694
Total	160	837	2,902	16,723	14,385	22,684	57,691
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 182,350			Ω = 5.14

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 Digital media use and mental health Macintosh Classic Manchester Baby Manchester Mark 1 Microsoft Security Essentials The Million Dollar Homepage Parallel computing PowerBook 100 Former featured articles 4chan API ASCII Acid2 Ackermann function Acorn Computers Algorithm 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 Delrina Emacs Firefox Floppy disk Folding@home 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 NeXT OpenBSD Opera (web browser) PaX Phishing Quantum computing Reduced instruction set computer Rosetta@home 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 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 List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts 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 Alphabet List of mergers and acquisitions by NortonLifeLock Former featured lists List of computer criminals List of mergers and acquisitions by Dell List of mergers and acquisitions by Red Hat Timeline of Macintosh models Featured pictures A Specimen by William Caslon FC-Twin-Console-Set-H GameCube-Set Glasses 800 edit Mandel zoom 00 mandelbrot set Mandel zoom 01 head and shoulder Mandel zoom 02 seehorse valley Mandel zoom 03 seehorse Mandel zoom 04 seehorse tail Mandel zoom 05 tail part Mandel zoom 06 double hook Mandel zoom 07 satellite Mandel zoom 08 satellite antenna Mandel zoom 09 satellite head and shoulder Mandel zoom 10 satellite seehorse valley Mandel zoom 11 satellite double spiral Mandel zoom 12 satellite spirally wheel with julia islands Mandel zoom 13 satellite seehorse tail with julia island Mandel zoom 14 satellite julia island Mandelbrot sequence new Nintendo-Famicom-Disk-System Nintendo-Switch-Console-Docked-wJoyConRB Personal computer, exploded 5 Sample 09-F9 protest art, Free Speech Flag by John Marcotte Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer, January 1984, by Bernard Gotfryd - edited 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) PowerBook 100 (2008-08-09) 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) Digital media use and mental health (2019-11-06) 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)