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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.
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Article alerts
- Articles for deletion
- 08 Apr 2016 – Visual Build (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EditorE (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 07 Apr 2016 – X-Smiles (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Safiel (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 05 Apr 2016 – GroundReport (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mar11 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 05 Apr 2016 – ShopSocially (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TenPoundHammer (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 31 Mar 2016 – CodeFutures (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ConradPino (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 29 Mar 2016 – Sweetcron (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Safiel (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- 28 Mar 2016 – Storage hypervisor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by NISMO1968 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- 28 Mar 2016 – Olympic Torch (hoax) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Laberkiste (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 23 Mar 2016 – Broadcom (disambiguation) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by James Allison (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
- 20 Mar 2016 – Anon Kanon (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Czar (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- (3 more...)
- Proposed deletions
- 09 Apr 2016 – Slow programming (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): While there are a few articles on this topic, it does not appear to be a generally accepted term, and a variety of "good programming practice" topics are all rolled into this (see the external links). No actual references.
- 09 Apr 2016 – GledPlay (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Failed software project with no references and Google doesn't turn up evidence of notability. Entry is just a feature list.
- 09 Apr 2016 – Bandit project (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Google doesn't turn up much on this and the main project page is dead. No references.
- 09 Apr 2016 – Newt Syrup (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): This is a minor framework that's mostly leaning on the Newt library and not notable on its own. No references.
- 08 Apr 2016 – CPU locking (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Original research, no references. Not clear from Google searches that this is a widespread term.
- 08 Apr 2016 – Quosal (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dialectric (t · c): Software article of unclear notability, lacking independent references, tagged for refs since 2011. A search turned up no significant WP:RS coverage. Article was created by an SPA as possibly promotional
- 06 Apr 2016 – TransADF (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by H.dryad (t · c): Unsourced article about obsolete software of uncertain notability.
- 06 Apr 2016 – Zinc Y! (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Failed, non-notable software project. No references.
- 06 Apr 2016 – Odiogo (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Failed, non-notable software. Tagged as no-references since 2009.
- 05 Apr 2016 – Piglit (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Dgpop (t · c): Does not meet GNG. No references.
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- Redirects for discussion
- 07 Apr 2016 – Criticism of Jimbo Wales (talk · edit · hist) →Jimmy Wales was RfDed by Everymorning (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Mar 2016 – Yahoo.cm (talk · edit · hist) →Yahoo! was RfDed by Tavix (t · c); see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 30 Mar 2016 – LilyPond (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Peter SamFan (t · c); start discussion
- 06 Mar 2016 – Windows 7 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gamingforfun365 (t · c); start discussion
- 10 Feb 2016 – Juniper MX-Series (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CorporateM (t · c); start discussion
- 13 Jan 2016 – John von Neumann (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); start discussion
- 12 Jan 2016 – HTC First (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SSTflyer (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Nov 2015 – Book embedding (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by David Eppstein (t · c); see discussion
- Featured article reviews
- 20 Oct 2015 – Super Nintendo Entertainment System (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Gamingforfun365 (t · c); see discussion
- Requests for comments
- 23 Mar 2016 – YouTube (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by George Ho (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Mar 2016 – Beepi (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by BC1278 (t · c); see discussion
- Peer reviews
- 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
- 09 Apr 2016 – IPad (2nd generation) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Anthony Appleyard (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Apr 2016 – Garbage collection (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by BD2412 (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Apr 2016 – Notepad (software) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Champion (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2016 – UBlock (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Goldenshimmer (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Mar 2016 – The Signpost (Wikipedia) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by SSTflyer (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Mar 2016 – Front end development (talk · edit · hist) move request by 2620:0:1006:1:95AA:4FEB:A35A:F6E0 (t · c) was closed; 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/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}}
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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: http://dispenser.homenet.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 | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA |
2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | ||
| FL |
1 | 9 | 2 | 12 | |||
| FM |
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
 GA |
1 | 13 | 37 | 49 | 8 | 108 | |
| B | 38 | 106 | 203 | 253 | 30 | 630 | |
| C | 55 | 244 | 573 | 822 | 7 | 706 | 2,407 |
| Start | 19 | 300 | 974 | 3,761 | 42 | 4,842 | 9,938 |
| Stub | 7 | 263 | 4,142 | 137 | 8,208 | 12,757 | |
| List | 2 | 13 | 80 | 225 | 42 | 357 | 719 |
| Book | 30 | 30 | |||||
| Category | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1,415 | 1,422 | ||
| Disambig | 1 | 2 | 12 | 52 | 67 | ||
| File | 1 | 26 | 319 | 346 | |||
| Portal | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
| Project | 73 | 73 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 4 | 46 | 1,638 | 11 | 1,700 | |
| Template | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 398 | 415 | |
| Other | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 29 | ||
| Assessed | 118 | 693 | 2,148 | 9,372 | 4,174 | 14,179 | 30,684 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 10 | 30 | 9,429 | 9,471 | ||
| Total | 118 | 695 | 2,158 | 9,402 | 4,174 | 23,608 | 40,155 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 129,462 | Ω = 5.35 | |||||
High-quality content
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