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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
- Articles for deletion
- 18 May 2018 – Lookout (company) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JzG (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 18 May 2018 – Stitch, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Barkeep49 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 17 May 2018 – Comparison of sites using the LiveJournal codebase (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chrissymad (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 17 May 2018 – Comparison of Canadian-tax preparation software for personal use (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chrissymad (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 17 May 2018 – Comparison of archive repair programs (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chrissymad (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 16 May 2018 – ShixxNOTE (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kleuske (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 15 May 2018 – Proteus Conversational Interface (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RoySmith (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 15 May 2018 – Gobby (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Velella (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 May 2018 – List of Thunderbolt-compatible devices (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DIYeditor (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 11 May 2018 – WikiExperts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Gamaliel (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- (8 more...)
- Proposed deletions
- 19 May 2018 – Rialto Toolkit (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 37.12.204.241 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – Ample SDK (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 2.143.104.143 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – UDig (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 37.13.104.8 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – GumTree (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 95.127.23.246 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – PowerPlant (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 176.80.178.63 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – InterViews (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 176.82.22.51 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – Fox toolkit (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 176.82.78.12 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – Zinc Application Framework (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 2.142.245.8 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – OpenGL User Interface Library (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 176.82.252.10 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- 19 May 2018 – TnFOX (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 176.80.178.173 (t · c): Not notable. There are no independent sources
- (14 more...)
- Categories for discussion
- 01 May 2018 – Category:Cancelled projects and events (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- Redirects for discussion
- 12 May 2018 – Opera Software, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) →Opera Software was RfDed by Gotitbro (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2018 – Opera Software, Inc (talk · edit · hist) →Opera Software was RfDed by Gotitbro (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2018 – Opera Software Inc (talk · edit · hist) →Opera Software was RfDed by Gotitbro (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2018 – Opera Software Inc. (talk · edit · hist) →Opera Software was RfDed by Gotitbro (t · c); see discussion
- 09 May 2018 – Instant grat download (talk · edit · hist) →Music download was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 May 2018 – DFSMS (talk · edit · hist) →Hierarchical storage management was RfDed by Chatul (t · c); see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 03 Feb 2018 – DNS Certification Authority Authorization (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheDragonFire (t · c); start discussion
- 27 Jan 2018 – Hardware-based encryption (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bellezzasolo (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jul 2017 – MIDI (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GoAnimateFan199Pro (t · c); see discussion
- Featured article reviews
- 18 May 2018 – Scene7 (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Leefeni de Karik (t · c); see discussion
- Requests for comments
- 10 May 2018 – Bitcoin (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Ladislav Mecir (t · c); see discussion
- 04 May 2018 – Nextdoor (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by BC1278 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Mar 2018 – Bitcoin Cash (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Ladislav Mecir (t · c); see discussion
- Peer reviews
- 27 Mar 2018 – PC Perspective (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Dbsseven (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Feb 2018 – V850 (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Cafeduke (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Nov 2013 – HDMI (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Acalycine (t · c); see discussion
- Requested moves
- 19 May 2018 – Piledriver (microarchitecture) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Tholme (t · c); see discussion
- 15 May 2018 – Bookmark (World Wide Web) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Teratix (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2018 – History of Microsoft Windows (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by 2601:183:101:58D0:104D:DE4A:EA8A:957B (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2018 – PySide (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:556B:C6A6:EEBD:6A45 (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
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 |
1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | ||
| FL |
2 | 10 | 12 | ||||
| FM |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
 A |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
 GA |
3 | 13 | 42 | 59 | 17 | 134 | |
| B | 37 | 115 | 209 | 275 | 101 | 737 | |
| C | 63 | 298 | 773 | 1,310 | 1 | 1,055 | 3,500 |
| Start | 18 | 272 | 1,141 | 5,501 | 16 | 5,917 | 12,865 |
| Stub | 10 | 244 | 4,680 | 53 | 8,367 | 13,354 | |
| List | 2 | 14 | 97 | 280 | 39 | 374 | 806 |
| Book | 33 | 33 | |||||
| Category | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2,192 | 2,199 | ||
| Disambig | 1 | 2 | 9 | 67 | 79 | ||
| File | 1 | 25 | 323 | 349 | |||
| Portal | 2 | 13 | 15 | ||||
| Project | 2 | 73 | 75 | ||||
| Redirect | 9 | 76 | 2,213 | 6 | 2,304 | ||
| Template | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 477 | 497 | |
| NA | 2 | 147 | 149 | ||||
| Assessed | 125 | 732 | 2,530 | 12,255 | 5,791 | 15,842 | 37,275 |
| Draft | 2 | 143 | 5 | 150 | |||
| Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 22 | 7,620 | 7,646 | ||
| Total | 125 | 733 | 2,533 | 12,277 | 5,791 | 23,462 | 44,921 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 161,291 | Ω = 5.26 | |||||
