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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

• 27 Mar 2015 – PriceRunner (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 26 Mar 2015 – Nim (programming language) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Msnicki (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
• 24 Mar 2015 – Duolingo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The Banner (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 22 Mar 2015 – INetClean (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cryptic (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 21 Mar 2015 – LiMo Platform (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ysangkok (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 21 Mar 2015 – Newgen Software (talk · edit · hist) reviewed at AFC by Timtrent (t · c) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
• 18 Mar 2015 – Brogrammer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lightgodsy (t · c); see discussion (16 participants)
• 18 Mar 2015 – Fireplane (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zackmann08 (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
• 15 Mar 2015 – Sprint (software) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 15 Mar 2015 – Visual C++ name mangling (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokajanje (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 27 Mar 2015 – MacHOME (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Huon (t · c): No indication the magazine was notable; no significant coverage; the article is original research and reads as if it was written by a disgruntled ex-subscriber. and endorsed by Safiel (t · c) on 27 Mar 2015: Deleted at AfD for utter non notability on November 19, 2006. This turd was almost immediately reposted on November 25, 2006 and has managed to evade detection all these years. <sheesh> Delete in the strongest possible terms for absolute non n ...
• 26 Mar 2015 – Imagine (graphics software) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Huon (t · c): No indication on notability, no reliable sources.
• 26 Mar 2015 – REACHtracker (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this ...
• 26 Mar 2015 – Msds vault (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this ...
• 26 Mar 2015 – Actio Regulator (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this ...
• 24 Mar 2015 – BizSpark (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Be..anyone (t · c): NN, abused as justfication for promotional articles
• 22 Mar 2015 – 3DVE (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Piotrus (t · c): The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this ...
• 21 Mar 2015 – Owis (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Wgolf (t · c): Product that does not seem notable
• 23 Mar 2015 – Asprise OCR (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Piotrus (t · c) was deproded by Ocr-ninja (t · c) (author) on 24 Mar 2015
• 19 Mar 2015 – 18th Computer Olympiad (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Boleyn (t · c) was deleted

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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

• 01 Mar 2015 – Bitcoin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Yoshi24517 (t · c); see 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

• 27 Mar 2015 – Jennifer Government: NationStates (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to NationStates (talk · edit · hist) by Literally Satan (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Mar 2015 – Play.com (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Rakuten.co.uk (talk · edit · hist) by Anthony Appleyard (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Mar 2015 – Private Use Areas (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Private Use Area (talk · edit · hist) by DePiep (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Mar 2015 – Michael McCafferty (software entrepreneur) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Michael McCafferty (talk · edit · hist) by 220 of Borg (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Mar 2015 – Common logic (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Common Logic (talk · edit · hist) by Impsswoon (t · c); see discussion
• 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

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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	6			15
FL		1		9		2	12
FM		1			2		3
GA	2	15	33	33		14	97
B	36	105	201	232		35	609
C	55	212	518	701	2	574	2,062
Start	22	272	888	3,190	57	4,256	8,685
Stub		24	243	3,852	79	7,904	12,102
List	4	11	72	206	37	276	606
Book					29		29
Category		1	1	2	833		837
Disambig		1	2	11	42		56
File		1		25	339		365
Portal					12		12
Project					71		71
Redirect	1		4	26	1,161	9	1,201
Template	1	3	2	11	354		371
NA					2		2
Other				2	1	8	11
Assessed	123	648	1,970	8,306	3,021	13,078	27,146
Unassessed		1	9	41	314	9,653	10,018
Total	123	649	1,979	8,347	3,335	22,731	37,164
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7005126595000000000126,595			Ω = 5.36

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