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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.

WikiProject Computing
General information
Main project page (talk) Members (talk) Manual of Style (talk)
Departments
Assessment (talk) Outreach (talk) Peer review (talk)
Tasks
Articles for deletion (talk) Articles needing attention (talk) Articles needing expansion (talk) Articles requested (talk)
Task forces
Computer hardware (talk) Computer networking (talk) Early computers (talk)
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Parent WikiProject
Technology (talk)
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Portals
Computing and Information technology Apple Inc. Computer networking Computer science Computer security Internet Software Technology and applied sciences
Templates
{{Compu-stub}} {{Infobox computer}} {{User WP COMP}} {{WikiProject Computing}}
recent Computing-related changes

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 16 Dec 2014 – MuLab (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Peridon (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 14 Dec 2014 – Learning the vi and Vim Editors (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mikeblas (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 12 Dec 2014 – PKWARE, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Unforgettableid (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 12 Dec 2014 – Opus Software Solutions (talk · edit · hist) reviewed at AFC by JustBerry (t · c) was AfDed by Widefox (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 08 Dec 2014 – Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Champaign Supernova (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 07 Dec 2014 – SmartSVN (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by MrOllie (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 07 Dec 2014 – NotScripts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dennisthe2 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 19 Nov 2014 – Derp (hacker group) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by VoodooKobra (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 06 Dec 2014 – The Yorker (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Pigsonthewing (t · c) was deleted; see discussion (5 participants)
• 05 Dec 2014 – H2desk (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by DissidentAggressor (t · c) was deleted; see discussion (4 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 11 Dec 2014 – Planet Grand Theft Auto (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Thumperward (t · c): zero notability, semi-automated satellite news site
• 10 Dec 2014 – PKWARE, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Unforgettableid (t · c) was deproded by 32.218.38.227 (t · c) on 11 Dec 2014
• 03 Dec 2014 – IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by DissidentAggressor (t · c) was deleted
• 03 Dec 2014 – Jan Stip (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Czar (t · c) was deleted

Templates for discussion

• 03 Dec 2014 – Template:Source code (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Pigsonthewing (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 05 Dec 2014 – Windows XP (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheChampionMan1234 (t · c); start discussion
• 29 Jun 2014 – Paxata (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CorporateM (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 06 Dec 2014 – The Post-Standard (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by DASonnenfeld (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Dec 2014 – Objectivity/DB (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Jjrenzel (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Sep 2014 – Adobe Systems (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Bostonscribe (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 29 Nov 2014 – Windows 7 (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by StewdioMACK (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Nov 2014 – Firebug (software) (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Agadzinski (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Nov 2013 – HDMI (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Acalycine (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Apr 2013 – Big data (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Abhishek1605 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 08 Dec 2014 – Java Servlet (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Java servlet (talk · edit · hist) by Jojalozzo (t · c); see discussion

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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

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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/Participants

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: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Computing

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Article quality

Computing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	6	5		1	15
FL		1	1	9		1	12
FM		1			2		3
A			1				1
GA	2	14	38	31		8	93
B	35	107	200	228		21	591
C	57	214	495	668	2	486	1,922
Start	19	252	894	3,283	54	3,901	8,403
Stub		50	238	4,016	62	7,719	12,085
List	4	9	75	207	37	256	588
Book					29		29
Category		1	1	2	813		817
Disambig		1	2	12	41		56
File		1		25	345		371
Portal					12		12
Project					68		68
Redirect	1		4	26	1,156	9	1,196
Template	1	3	3	11	344		362
NA					2		2
Other						8	8
Assessed	121	655	1,958	8,523	2,967	12,410	26,634
Unassessed	1		9	35	302	9,598	9,945
Total	122	655	1,967	8,558	3,269	22,008	36,579
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005124467000000000124,467			Ω = 5.37

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High-quality content

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

Guide to WikiProjects