Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing
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Descendant project parameters
[edit]I am boosting an edit request for Template:WikiProject Computing to add the rest of the descendant wikiprojects as parameters to the main template. A list of missing projects is collected there.
Consensus is needed. Tule-hog (talk) 05:09, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Template:JavaScript and Template:ECMAScript merge proposal
[edit]There was an unofficial merge proposal that did not reach consensus or take action. Bumping here. Tule-hog (talk) 17:14, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Wi-Fi 6#Requested move 29 August 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Wi-Fi 6#Requested move 29 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 18:38, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
New source for IBM System/23 Datamaster, also requesting help
[edit]Hello,
I am studying the foresaid computer and fixing part of the information in the article. Wikipedia is not a primary source, therefore I am updating data in my website, then updating the wikipedia article. While I cannot leave the wrong data at place, I am facing a moral dilemma on wether I should be updating it if I am also one of the sources.
For this reason I would like to ask a revision on the foresaid article by somebody else that is not me who could also be critic of my own work. I am open to suggestions and questions.
Also, I am facing the language barrier for the other wikipedias that still display the wrong information. Could anybody help me, please?
Thank you in advance and sorry for the trouble.
Buran Biggest Fan (talk) 12:03, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- I not sure I see a WP:COI here. However, it does not smell right to use your own site as a citation for improvements you make. You must have gotten your information from somewhere else; can you cite that? If you feel you can't make corrections, consider using {{Dubious}} and talk page discussion to help other editors help you. Admittedly it is a niche topic and help may not be immediately forthcoming but there have been 35 contributors to the article over its 20-year existence. ~Kvng (talk) 16:20, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Oracle Cerner#Requested move 19 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Oracle Cerner#Requested move 19 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 03:18, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested move 19 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested move 19 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 03:48, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
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Hello, |
15.ai has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Fixing watchlist
[edit]Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing/sidebar#recent_Computing-related_changes and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing/Archive_13#Project_watchlist (courtesy ping to DFlhb), I propose appending the target of /Recent changes to the home page's article alerts, similar to WP:COMPSEC.
Here is a preview (styling sourced from COMPSEC):
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
7 December 2024
- diffhist m Draft:GPTeens 11:30 −2 Graymoore talk contribs (Category fixed) Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Draft:Contabo 10:39 +24 KylieTastic talk contribs (Filled in 2 bare reference(s) with reFill 2)
- diffhist Draft:Contabo 10:38 −213 KylieTastic talk contribs (crunchbase.com is not a valid source see WP:CRUNCHBASE)
- diffhist m Draft:Contabo 10:37 +35 KylieTastic talk contribs (Cleaning up submission (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:Contabo 10:37 +3 KylieTastic talk contribs (clean up (DraftCleaner))
- diffhist m Draft:GPTeens 08:42 +2 Polygnotus talk contribs (Task 27: Disable the categories on this page while it is still a draft, per WP:DRAFTNOCAT, using Draft cleaner bot (v. 1.4)) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Alan Cooper (software designer) 07:33 +50 Uwappa talk contribs (→Interaction design and user experience: subchapters for books)
- diffhist m MSI Afterburner 07:26 +19 GünniX talk contribs (Lemma in bold, …)
- diffhist Alan Cooper (software designer) 06:31 +20 Uwappa talk contribs (→Interaction design and user experience: anchor for book: About Face)
- diffhist PowerBASIC 04:26 +722 A876 talk contribs (+Structured control statements (iterate and exit). sorted. checked URLs. rescued 2 powerbasic.com URLs.)
- diffhist Regulation of artificial intelligence 03:39 −1 KMaster888 talk contribs (→Council of Europe: subjective)
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6 December 2024
- diffhist RAR (file format) 23:07 +1 Artem S. Tashkinov talk contribs (→Software) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist RAR (file format) 23:04 −1,473 Artem S. Tashkinov talk contribs (→Software: This article is about the RAR format which is OS independent. Also this section is duplicated in the WinRAR article. I'm removing it here.) Tag: Visual edit
- Deletion log 20:47 Hey man im josh talk contribs deleted page Talk:Pump.fun (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Pump.fun") Tag: Twinkle
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- Deletion log 20:12 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:Persistence framework (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Persistence framework") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 20:12 Liz talk contribs deleted page Persistence framework (Expired PROD, concern was: It has not enough notability for itself, only talk about object-relational mapping that already has a article. "Persistence framework" is not a concept with references) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist 8-N-1 20:09 −1,418 Викидим talk contribs (merged per discussion Talk:Serial port#Merge proposal) Tag: New redirect
- Deletion log 20:00 Liz talk contribs deleted page Draft:Hak5 USB Rubber Ducky (G13: Abandoned draft or AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) Tag: Twinkle
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- diffhist Paolo Pellizzari 19:25 +144 Kazamzam talk contribs (WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!) Tag: Visual edit
- Deletion log 19:17 Liz talk contribs deleted page Draft talk:GeniGears (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Draft:GeniGears") Tag: Twinkle
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- diffhist Draft:OneXGen Technology 18:30 −60 Qcne talk contribs (Declining submission: corp - Submission is about a company or organization not yet shown to meet notability guidelines (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:OneXGen Technology 18:27 +153 Majd2006s talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft talk:OneXGen Technology 18:27 +113 Majd2006s talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft:OneXGen Technology 18:25 +2,728 Majd2006s talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --) Tag: Possible self promotion in user or draftspace
It relies on the Editorial Team quality log, which I'm not totally sure of the mechanics of but it gives recent changes to articles rather than the previous just talk pages. Tule-hog (talk) 18:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- Given typical interaction levels on this page, I'll just boldly follow through with this. Feel free to raise any objections. Tule-hog (talk) 18:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- From observing for a little while, I think its clear this is an almost uselessly small subset of the actual articles tagged with WP:COMP. A better solution still awaits. Tule-hog (talk) 01:42, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested merge at Talk:BitTorrent#Requested merge 30 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested merge discussion at Talk:BitTorrent#Requested merge 30 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sceeegt (talk) 19:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
History of programming languages as a list class article
[edit]History of programming languages is pegged as a "list class" article. It has a lot of lists in it but it also has a lot of text. Do you think this categorization is appropriate? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:22, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've updated the rating to C class. ~Kvng (talk) 15:04, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Information Security
[edit]Hi all,
I'm in the process of rewriting Information Security and could do with someone looking over my shoulder/helping clear out some of the general fluff. All welcome. Joe (talk) 15:38, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Meta Platforms#Requested move 29 October 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Meta Platforms#Requested move 29 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 21:23, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:.zip (top-level domain)#Requested move 19 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:.zip (top-level domain)#Requested move 19 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 03:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Identity management#Requested move 12 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Identity management#Requested move 12 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 16:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Gapo#Requested move 10 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gapo#Requested move 10 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:18, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:CloudPets#Requested move 18 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:CloudPets#Requested move 18 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Making spoken Wikipedia audios (it may double Wikipedia reads & they're useful)
[edit]Is anybody interested in making spoken Wikipedia audios at scale? I think it could up to double Wikipedia reads and that many readers would be interested in these: most people don't like to read long articles as texts on screens but millions frequently listen to podcasts.
I increasingly find myself listening to these audios instead of to podcasts or audiobooks as Wikipedia covers more interesting things, things fitting better to my interests or needs, covers things better than podcasts (e.g. more neutral, accurate & critical), and is more succinct than overly long audiobooks.
Here is the process to create these as far as I developed it and it could already be used to e.g. fulfill all audio requests. I think most people don't scroll below the large References section to the External links section and the current audio player is outdated with a way too narrow width and without a button to jump back x seconds. Let me know if you have questions. I don't know if there's a better place to ask about this so if there is, please also let me know, thanks!
Prototyperspective (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- I suggest we can maximize the impact of this effort by working popular pages first. ~Kvng (talk) 15:51, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good idea, thanks. Currently, it's more about first maximizing participation I think but making popular pages available probably also helps with that. I thought of creating audios for these next so I'd create audios for a mix of these two kinds of articles and the ones I had already planned earlier the next time I get to it. I also thought about enabling people to request audios on the WikiProject page. I think audios are most useful for 1. lengthy articles that are interesting but not so nice to read on a screen (like the example above) 2. articles about topics that are well podcastable/audiobookable like 'History of xyz'-articles.
Several of those popular pages are already available as audio, e.g. Internet Archive & Artificial intelligence. Developing the process further would probably be most useful, e.g. to make it automatically replace abbreviations with their written out form (like e.g. to for example or M to million) or remove the periods after name initials (like J. K. Rowling to J K Rowling) which results in long pauses which then need to be fixed at some point with a reupload if only noticed afterwards. Issues with audios can be reported using this template. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:42, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good idea, thanks. Currently, it's more about first maximizing participation I think but making popular pages available probably also helps with that. I thought of creating audios for these next so I'd create audios for a mix of these two kinds of articles and the ones I had already planned earlier the next time I get to it. I also thought about enabling people to request audios on the WikiProject page. I think audios are most useful for 1. lengthy articles that are interesting but not so nice to read on a screen (like the example above) 2. articles about topics that are well podcastable/audiobookable like 'History of xyz'-articles.
Requested move at Talk:Gateway, Inc.#Requested move 20 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gateway, Inc.#Requested move 20 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)