Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing
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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.
Article alerts
Did you know
- 20 May 2020 – Deep Blue (chess computer) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by The4lines (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 05 Jun 2020 – CloudByte (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rogermx (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 04 Jun 2020 – Storj Labs (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fuddle (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 04 Jun 2020 – Moving Tales (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fuddle (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 03 Jun 2020 – Psychreg (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Praxidicae (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 03 Jun 2020 – TIMEnavigator (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abductive (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 02 Jun 2020 – Blip.pl (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikieditor600 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 02 Jun 2020 – Weeve (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 02 Jun 2020 – Comparison of file verification software (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Praxidicae (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 02 Jun 2020 – Eratosphere (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikieditor600 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 02 Jun 2020 – ECPlaza (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikieditor600 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
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Proposed deletions
- 06 Jun 2020 – Casper Hosting (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 76.169.32.108 (t · c): concern
- 31 May 2020 – OpenBase (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Donaldd23 (t · c): concern
- 28 May 2020 – Platinnetz (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) was deleted
- 26 May 2020 – Waterwheel (website) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Torpedoi (t · c) was deleted
- 25 May 2020 – Testfunda.com (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Eatcha (t · c) was deleted
- 25 May 2020 – Aangilam (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Eatcha (t · c) was deleted
Categories for discussion
- 24 May 2020 – Category:Open-source roguelikes (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Izno (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 03 Jun 2020 – Even parity (talk · edit · hist) →Parity bit was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2020 – EXo Platform (talk · edit · hist) →Virtual workplace was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2020 – Digital content creation tools (talk · edit · hist) →3D computer graphics was RfDed by SpicyMilkBoy (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2020 – Sosospider (talk · edit · hist) →Soso (search engine) was RfDed by CycloneYoris (t · c); see discussion
Miscellany for deletion
- 25 May 2020 – Wikipedia:WikiProject Flight Simulation (talk · edit · hist) MfDed by Black Falcon (t · c) was closed as delete by Bibliomaniac15 (t · c) on 06 Jun 2020; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 23 May 2020 – 2channel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Psiĥedelisto (t · c); start discussion
- 02 May 2020 – GirlsDoPorn (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bilorv (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Apr 2020 – Moore's law (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kvng (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Mar 2020 – Times New Roman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Blythwood (t · c); see discussion
Featured article reviews
- 17 Apr 2020 – Macintosh Classic (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 23 May 2020 – Deep Blue (chess computer) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Mz7 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2020 – Cortana (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by TheAwesomeHwyh (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 08 May 2020 – The Federalist (website) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by MrClog (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 03 Jun 2020 – Abstract Syntax Notation One (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to ASN.1 by Afvalbak (t · c); see discussion
- 31 May 2020 – Example.com (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Special-use domain names by ItsPugle (t · c); see discussion
- 20 May 2020 – FileMaker Pro (talk · edit · hist) move request to FileMaker by Lonaowna (t · c) was moved to FileMaker (talk · edit · hist) by Anthony Appleyard (t · c) on 06 Jun 2020; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 29 May 2020 – Aliasing (computing) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pointer aliasing by 185.205.48.97 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 May 2020 – Pointer aliasing (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Aliasing (computing) by 185.205.48.97 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 May 2020 – NHS COVID-19 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to NHS Test and Trace by Crookesmoor (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2020 – SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to SUSE Linux by Editor-1 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2020 – Angie's List (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to ANGI Homeservices by DGG (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2020 – Instant messaging (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Messaging apps by EJessup (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2020 – Messaging apps (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Instant messaging by EJessup (t · c); see discussion
- 10 May 2020 – Modula (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Modula-2 by AtlasDuane (t · c); see discussion
- 10 May 2020 – Modula-2 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Modula by AtlasDuane (t · c); see discussion
- 06 May 2020 – World Class Soccer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Italy 1990 (video game) by HunterZ (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be split
- 01 Jun 2020 – Computer Olympiad (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Grutness (t · c); see discussion
- 30 May 2020 – Self-driving car (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Newfraferz87 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2020 – Network switch (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kvng (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2020 – Demoscene (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Gargaj (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Mar 2020 – Alan Eustace (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 67.70.32.186 (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Mar 2020 – IPad Pro (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by QuarioQuario54321 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Mar 2020 – Algorithm (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Utopes (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Feb 2020 – Adobe Premiere Pro (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mango från yttre rymden (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Jan 2020 – Synchronous dynamic random-access memory (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wbm1058 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Oct 2019 – Criticism of Facebook (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Newslinger (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for creation
- 04 Jun 2020 – Draft:YouPic (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DieRadfahrerin (t · c)
- 03 Jun 2020 – Draft:Covid Watch (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tinarwhite (t · c)
- 01 Jun 2020 – Draft:Arzamas (website) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DonGuess (t · c)
- 25 May 2020 – Draft:Emteria.OS (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Farzaneh.mostafaei (t · c)
- 23 May 2020 – Draft:Comparison of Gaussian process software (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Joanico (t · c)
- 21 May 2020 – Draft:Vega IT Sourcing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Uros77 (t · c)
- 18 May 2020 – Draft:Recruitive (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 51.6.207.166 (t · c)
- 18 May 2020 – Draft:Todor Georgiev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Elenatheodora (t · c)
- 10 Sep 2019 – Draft:Fiber optic network management (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChrisFruci (t · c)
- 27 May 2020 – Draft:Whale Cloud Technology (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Virtuista (t · c) was declined by Robert McClenon (t · c) on 31 May 2020
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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}}
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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
| Computing articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
| FL
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2 | 10 | 12 | ||||
| FM
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1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
 GA
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4 | 13 | 42 | 76 | 14 | 149 | |
| B | 48 | 132 | 263 | 321 | 139 | 903 | |
| C | 72 | 338 | 929 | 1,834 | 4 | 1,182 | 4,359 |
| Start | 5 | 267 | 1,189 | 6,695 | 43 | 6,253 | 14,452 |
| Stub | 6 | 175 | 4,823 | 102 | 7,988 | 13,094 | |
| List | 3 | 20 | 107 | 608 | 26 | 387 | 1,151 |
| Book | 36 | 36 | |||||
| Category | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3,653 | 3,659 | ||
| Disambig | 1 | 1 | 6 | 77 | 85 | ||
| File | 24 | 2,136 | 2,160 | ||||
| Portal | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Project | 104 | 104 | |||||
| Redirect | 876 | 876 | |||||
| Template | 3 | 2 | 6 | 546 | 557 | ||
| NA | 9 | 71 | 2,684 | 9 | 2,773 | ||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Draft | 5 | 146 | 4 | 155 | |||
| Assessed | 133 | 784 | 2,726 | 14,487 | 10,442 | 15,976 | 44,548 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 21 | 1 | 6,923 | 6,946 | ||
| Total | 133 | 784 | 2,727 | 14,508 | 10,443 | 22,899 | 51,494 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 171,497 | Ω = 5.19 | |||||
High-quality content
| Good articles | |
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Good articles (see also Internet culture good articles)The following computing articles have been deemed Good Articles, which places them two tiers below Featured Articles.
Good articles
Former good articles
Good article nominees |
