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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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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

• 19 Mar 2015 – DreamSpark Premium (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Padenton (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 19 Mar 2015 – Fictional setting of Simoun (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 18 Mar 2015 – Brogrammer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lightgodsy (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 18 Mar 2015 – Fireplane (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zackmann08 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 16 Mar 2015 – Fancyber (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Flat Out (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 15 Mar 2015 – Sprint (software) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 15 Mar 2015 – Visual C++ name mangling (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokajanje (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 14 Mar 2015 – Prefetch buffer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mr. Guye (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 14 Mar 2015 – Aerospike database (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rhododendrites (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 13 Mar 2015 – Princeton Technology (talk · edit · hist) reviewed at AFC by CharlieEchoTango (t · c) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 18 Mar 2015 – McAfee Personal Firewall Plus (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Wonderfl (t · c): Appears to be a defunct software product that McAfee has since superseded with a new product line. Does not appear to ever have been notable software. Tagged for notability for two years.
• 17 Mar 2015 – LinuxShield (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Safiel (t · c): Appears to be a defunct software product that McAfee has since superseded with a new product line. Does not appear to ever have been notable software. Tagged for notability for two years.
• 15 Mar 2015 – Jim Lane (Microsoft) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 108.69.72.176 (t · c): Article is little more than a stub indicating subject once appeared in a group photograph at Microsoft Corporation in the 1970s. Nothing of general interest or notability. This stub was made only to identify persons who appeared in a well-known photo ...
• 15 Mar 2015 – Steve Wood (entrepreneur) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 108.69.72.176 (t · c): Article is little more than a stub indicating subject once appeared in a group photograph at Microsoft Corporation in the 1970s. Nothing of general interest or notability. This stub was made only to identify persons who appeared in a well-known photo ...
• 15 Mar 2015 – Marla Wood (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 108.69.72.176 (t · c): Article is little more than a stub indicating subject once appeared in a group photograph at Microsoft Corporation in the 1970s. Nothing of general interest or notability
• 15 Mar 2015 – Bob Greenberg (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 108.69.72.176 (t · c): article is little more than a stub indicating subject once appeared in a group photograph at Microsoft Corporation in the 1970s. Nothing of general interest or notability
• 13 Mar 2015 – -ware (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Kephir (t · c): WP:NOTDICT.
• 11 Mar 2015 – Open Notebook Project (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Myfoolishgames (t · c): looks like another dead project
• 10 Mar 2015 – JSMDB (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 101.164.1.138 (t · c): Appears to be a personal project which is no longer publicly available. Completely non-notable
• 17 Mar 2015 – Imake (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ysangkok (t · c) was deproded by David Gerard (t · c) on 18 Mar 2015

Categories for discussion

• 12 Mar 2015 – Category:Streisand effect (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by RevelationDirect (t · c); see 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

• 11 Mar 2015 – Secure Digital (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sam.hill7 (t · c); start discussion
• 01 Mar 2015 – Bitcoin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Yoshi24517 (t · c); start discussion
• 21 Feb 2015 – Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thegreatdr (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 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

• 14 Mar 2015 – Hard disk drive (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hard drive (talk · edit · hist) by Sam Hnri (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Mar 2015 – Mersenne twister (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Mersenne Twister (talk · edit · hist) by Cmglee (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Mar 2015 – Yahoo! (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Yahoo (talk · edit · hist) by Voidxor (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Mar 2015 – Counter (talk · edit · hist) move request to Counter (digital) (talk · edit · hist) by Some Gadget Geek (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 07 Mar 2015 – Re2 (talk · edit · hist) move request to RE2 (talk · edit · hist) by Anthony Appleyard (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
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

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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
GA	2	15	38	33		9	97
B	36	106	199	236		31	608
C	57	224	526	712	2	533	2,054
Start	20	275	908	3,355	55	4,056	8,669
Stub		23	245	4,031	73	7,706	12,078
List	4	11	75	210	36	264	600
Book					29		29
Category		1	1	2	834		838
Disambig		1	2	11	42		56
File		1		25	340		366
Portal					12		12
Project		1			70		71
Redirect	1		4	26	1,161	8	1,200
Template	1	3	3	11	353		371
NA					2		2
Other				2	1	8	11
Assessed	123	664	2,008	8,668	3,012	12,617	27,092
Unassessed		1	7	39	315	9,652	10,014
Total	123	665	2,015	8,707	3,327	22,269	37,106
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005126337000000000126,337			Ω = 5.36

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