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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)
Descendant WikiProjects
Amiga (talk) Apple Inc. (talk) Macintosh task force (talk) iOS task force (talk) Computer science (talk) Databases (talk) Computer Security (talk) Computer Vision (talk) Intel (talk) Internet (talk) Internet culture (talk) IRC (talk) Websites (talk) Blogging (talk) Podcasting (talk) Microsoft (talk) Microsoft Windows (talk) C++ (talk) Java (talk) Perl (talk) RISC OS (talk) Software (talk) Free Software (talk) Linux (talk) Desktop Linux (talk)
Parent WikiProject
Technology (talk)
Related WikiProjects
Apps (talk) Cryptography (talk) Graphic design (talk) QRpedia (talk) Telecommunications (talk) Typography (talk) Video games (talk) Webcomics work group (talk)
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

• 28 Feb 2015 – Perl Golf Apocalypse (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Esquivalience (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 27 Feb 2015 – Samsung Galaxy S6 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EoRdE6 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 26 Feb 2015 – BitLord (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Reyk (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 25 Feb 2015 – Mint.com (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 23 Feb 2015 – Qi (programming language) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Msnicki (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Feb 2015 – Globule (CDN) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tommylommykins (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Feb 2015 – Mod qos (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tommylommykins (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Feb 2015 – Mod parrot (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tommylommykins (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Feb 2015 – Mod perl (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tommylommykins (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Feb 2015 – Mod jk (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Tommylommykins (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

(11 more...)

Proposed deletions

• 28 Feb 2015 – Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Be..anyone (t · c): Non-Notable discontinued product
• 28 Feb 2015 – Envy (software) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Vrac (t · c): Article on defunct software application sourced from blogs fails WP:NSOFT
• 27 Feb 2015 – OpenPipeline (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Janhoy (t · c): This open source product seems to be discontinued. http://openpipeline.org/ is dead, http://openpipeline.com/ is hijacked, http://openpipeline.dieselpoint.com/ redirects to the hijacked site, and https://github.com/Spantree/openpipeline has not been ...
• 27 Feb 2015 – Druid (database designer) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dialectric (t · c): software article of unclear notability, lacking independent references, tagged for multiple issues since Jan 2014
• 26 Feb 2015 – DicML (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dialectric (t · c): software article of unclear notability, lacking independent references, tagged for refs and notability since 2011
• 24 Feb 2015 – FWTools (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Be..anyone (t · c): not notable
• 23 Feb 2015 – PyUSB (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Qwertyus (t · c): Fails WP:NSOFT.
• 23 Feb 2015 – OggUVS (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Be..anyone (t · c): Non-notable unfinished vintage 2008 draft
• 19 Feb 2015 – International availability of Google Transit (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by PeterEastern (t · c) was deleted
• 18 Feb 2015 – Pennd (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Haruth (t · c) was deleted

(5 more...)

Categories for discussion

• 21 Feb 2015 – Category:Computing articles needing images (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Ricky81682 (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Feb 2015 – Category:DEF CON (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Vegaswikian (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 21 Feb 2015 – Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thegreatdr (t · c); start discussion
• 13 Jan 2015 – Giant Bomb (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FLStyle (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 24 Feb 2015 – Wikia (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Pyrotle (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Feb 2015 – Bitcoin (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by 96.38.120.194 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Feb 2015 – TurboTax (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Mrfrobinson (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Sep 2014 – Adobe Systems (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Bostonscribe (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 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

• 17 Feb 2015 – HipHop Virtual Machine (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by 80.169.25.242 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Feb 2015 – Windows 10 Mobile (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Windows 10 (mobile) (talk · edit · hist) by Some Gadget Geek (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Feb 2015 – HTTP Secure (talk · edit · hist) move request to HTTPS (talk · edit · hist) by Steel1943 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 16 Feb 2015 – GNU/Linux naming controversy (talk · edit · hist) move request to GNU/Linux naming (talk · edit · hist) by Chealer (t · c) was closed; 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	6			15
FL		1		9		2	12
FM		1			2		3
A			1				1
GA	2	15	34	32		13	96
B	34	106	199	233		34	606
C	55	211	508	691	2	566	2,033
Start	22	271	887	3,169	55	4,215	8,619
Stub		23	241	3,829	74	7,895	12,062
List	4	10	71	204	38	271	598
Book					29		29
Category		1	1	2	828		832
Disambig		1	2	11	42		56
File		1		25	340		366
Portal					12		12
Project					71		71
Redirect	1		4	26	1,159	9	1,199
Template	1	3	2	11	353		370
NA					2		2
Other				2	1	8	11
Assessed	121	645	1,956	8,250	3,008	13,013	26,993
Unassessed			8	39	306	9,683	10,036
Total	121	645	1,964	8,289	3,314	22,696	37,029
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005125952000000000125,952			Ω = 5.36

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