Portal talk:Technology/Archive 1

"news"?
The 'news' section links me to /, which does not work. I believe the issue is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Science/News/Wikinews — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.30.156.244 (talk) 16:41, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Initial posts
A Wiki-Project facility for Technology has been destroyed and awaits anyone who has contributions, questions, comments, suggestions, whatever... Quinobi 4 July 2005 08:51 (UTC)


 * This article needs so much work.... Elfguy 20:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Bootstrapping the Technology of Civilization
Haven't seen anything about this on Wiki. I'm talking about a survivor's guide to rebuilding a civilization such as our own with how-to guides on blacksmithing, metallurgy, farming, animal husbandry, etc. I'm thinking it'd be the kind of thing that would be edited online and people could print out hardcopies or save to disk on the off chance that something might happen to end civilization, say another Republican president in 2008. So, is anything like this in the works? Gmuir 13:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikibooks? CloudNine 14:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Gmuir, that would be TOO cool. I'd love to be involved, so if you're still hoping to promote it, keep me informed. Preston McConkie 22:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

That's the best idea.Please update on what you are going to do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.103.41 (talk) 02:04, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

I was bold and created a stub. Of course, I don't have much experience in this field, and this would defiantly require significant research to collect into a single book (which could potentially be bulky or split into multiple books.) --Sigma 7 (talk) 20:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

We need your help!
That's right, we need your help picking suitable articles and pictures to feature on the main portal page. Please post any and all suggestions here. I can think of stuff to pick on my own (for a while), but I am only one person, and my knowledge of the field is more limited than all of our collected knowledge of the field. Thanks! --Cyde Weys votetalk 02:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * See Featured articles and Featured pictures. If you run out of featured articles to display, you may find quality articles at Good articles.--cj | talk 06:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Biography suggestions: --ragesoss 07:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Babbage
 * Thomas Newcomen - (article not great, but it has enough good info for the portal box)
 * Elmer Ambrose Sperry - (again, not great)
 * Luther Burbank
 * Carl Wilhelm Siemens
 * Alexander Graham Bell
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Wright brothers
 * Samuel Insull
 * I'm no deity, but I would like to suggest a few:


 * Isaac Asimov with some of his essays has contributed to techonology.
 * Albert Einstein has to do with science, which in turn becomes techonology we use.
 * Barak Obama

misquote
I believe that the quote attributed to Bill Gates regarding the 640k limit is incorrect, and not something he actually said mrgenixus@gmail.com..

Version 1.0 core topics
Hello. I'm part of Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics working toward a release version of Wikipedia (on paper or CD).

If you're interested in helping, these are some related articles we plan to include:
 * Computer
 * Computer science
 * Technology

If you think any of these are ready, please let us know. You can see our proposed initial quality standards or learn more about the overall project.

Thanks. Maurreen 04:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC) dfds —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.28.34 (talk) 09:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Links
I just removed all the links from "things to do" and actually put in some things to do. I notice another list of links, under "Reference links". Is this actually useful? To me, this seems like another spam magnet &mdash; something we just don't need. I think we should get rid of that section from the portal. Any objections or thoughts? -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 21:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Technology news
Also, I suggest getting rid of the "Technology news" section, unless some volunteers come forth to regularly maintain it. With other portals I'm working on, the right column is generally used to provide topic browsing (e.g. categories, subportals, article directory, ...), and the left column is where the featured article, picture, do you know?, etc. go. For this portal, it would be logical to put the categories in that spot. Any objections to removing the "technology news" section? or volunteers to maintain and keep it? -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 21:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC) I agree! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.103.41 (talk) 02:07, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

The quote.
I took the freedom to change the quote to one by Albert Einstein instead, since the old one has been around for a long time. Please flame me for doing so, but give me good reasons for keeping the old one for so long if you choose to flame me. Otherwise, please leave it alone. vidarlo 22:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Remember That All Types Of Personal TECH Is Only As Smart As You The User!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1stMuadDib (talk • contribs) 10:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

First personal computer
This a debatable subject, and Xerox was not the first corporation to market a personal computer, that is if a personal computer is a computer that is used by a single person in an office, if this was the case then the IBM 610 should be mentioned as the first PC. Because, it was John Lentz who designed this machine (between 1948 and 1954) and he coined the name Personal Automatic Computer, if you drop the Automatic you get PC. FrontLine 12:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

What is going on with these contents lists?
This is the second portal I've seen today with a contents list that takes up 90% of the title area. Is this a CSS issue or is there a problem with the software?

Selected biography
I have removed the "Selected biography" from the portal, as it was last updated in December. Furthermore, I don't see enough technology-related biographies in Featured articles to keep this updated adequately. It would be better to include biographies among the "Selected articles". -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 22:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've readded the biography, newly updated. Actually, it had been updated several times since December, most recently in mid-May.  Selected biographies needn't be featured articles, and there are plenty of good enough biographies.  I'll make sure it doesn't go for more than a month without an update from here on out.--ragesoss 23:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Silicon Valley of India move proposal
Hi all, please visit the above move proposal discussion - we need further input. Posting here as Wikiproject Technology appears to be a ghost ship. thanks Bwithh 14:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Slight error
There is a slight error in format about the sub-heading of this portal. The edit option in the top heading is covered partially due to the lenght of the blue heading. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  13:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Is anyone updating this portal?
This portal seems to have been dead for awhile, and if no one else is updating this, I would be happy to update it to the best of my ability. Lithium fun! 16:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Rotating Portal Articles
Featured Technology and Engineering articles are found at Featured_articles. I suggest adding Enigma machine, Crash test dummy and Saturn V as three other interesting FA articles that could be put in the rotation- I think the current rotation of 2 articles is quite low and an aim of at least 7 articles should be aimed for to provide a weeks roation. Bobbacon 11:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've been meaning to add featured articles, pictures and biographies. The current layout is a random order of articles. Thanks for the article tips though! CloudNine 11:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Species?
Do we really need to lead the description of this portal by talking about technology employed by "species"? All but the most minuscule portion of the articles in this portal will relate to stuff invented and used by us humans. It's not hard to write a sentence that describes technology without excluding animals, while not sounding as if human technology is just one small contribution in the vast crowd.

This kind of overinclusiveness is most often seen in academia, and is more often motivated more by ideology than by any legitimate need for clarity. Preston McConkie 22:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Other species have a basic level of technology that should be mentioned; I disagree that the lead implies that human technology "is just one small contribution in the vast crowd". Anyway, the rest of the lead refers to humanity; I hardly think it focuses on other species. Anyway, the lead comes from the Technology article, so adding comments there would reach a more suitable audience. CloudNine 20:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree it's jarring. Tempshill (talk) 20:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I see the lead has been much improved. In fact, it specifies that technology is designed to improve conditions for humanity. Marvelous common sense! --Preston McConkie (talk • contribs) 11:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Reads like a sermon
Actually, much of this introduction to the portal reads like a sermon, not like a definition or an introduction. The whole second paragraph is completely superfluous. What's up with the preachy stuff about weapons? And do we need another elementary school recital of man's ascent from the caves? It's a great big, "Well, duh!" A concise definition of technology will do; leave the grave tones, elementary school lessons and self-impressed head-wagging out, please. Preston McConkie 22:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you offer a concise definition of technology? It's an elusive concept; see Technology for attempts at a definition and scope. The history of technology needs to be summarised, however obvious such facts might seem. Where's the "self-impressed head-wagging"? CloudNine 20:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the current definition shows that technology isn't an elusive concept. Things certainly are hard to define when we refuse to employ common sense in our lexical toolbox. But the fact that humans and beavers both build dams doesn't mean we have to pretend humans and beavers both read encyclopedias.--Preston McConkie (talk • contribs) 11:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikilinking "nuclear weapon" in one of the panes
I'm new to portals. I just noticed the lead for "nuclear weapon" looks like this:


 * A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fission or fusion. As a result, even a nuclear (...)

I tried wikilinking "nuclear weapon", which seemed obvious to me because, well, people will want to go to that article and there's currently no way to do so; but the change didn't seem to "take" on this portal page. What went wrong? Tempshill (talk) 20:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

The Same Thing About Planets and the Gods
Mercury - the planet nearest to sun - son of Jupiter. The messenger of the gods

Mars - 2nd after mercury - the Roman god of war

Venus - planet after earth - goddes of gardens and fields —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evannbathan077 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Question
Can anybody mention in detail the various developments in the manufacturing of cheaper cars Thanks, 20:55, 5 th May 2008 (UTC)
 * See Reference desk. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:48, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Is the internet safe for kids?
I do not think the internet is the safest place for kids but I do think it should have more security.My accounts on different websites have been hacked into plenty of times.I bet if the websites had had better security that wouldn't have happened.


 * See Reference desk. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:48, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Delete languages
I need to delete languages except english. I don' have enough space. I am a senior citizen and I have had this computer for 12 years. I am to old and cannot afford to upgrade. In addition, even though I have had the computer a long time. Please make any instructions you have for me very simple. Thanks Bettye reed.bettye@ymail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.224.183.34 (talk) 03:59, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I can tell you if you tell me what your computer brand and model. Your welcome!


 * See Reference desk. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:54, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move
From Portal:Technology and applied sciences' → Portal:Technology -- Flewis (talk) 07:59, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Definition
It looks a bit silly here with the definition ("application of developments in science and engineering to benefit humanity." apparently) right above the selected article on nuclear weapons ("a tool employed to injure, defeat, or destroy an adversary." I'm told.) How about"...is an application of developments in science and engineering to benefit a human, a group, or humanity as a whole." Are there any objections?--Keithonearth (talk) 05:36, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about it... "A human, a group, or humanity as a whole" doesn't make much sense.  -  down  load  |   sign!  02:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

missing reference
In the United States article (now a FAC), the sentence "The United States has been a leader in scientific research and technological innovation since the late 19th century" is lacking a reference. Could anyone please add one? GeometryGirl (talk) 15:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

What is JDBC?
Ssdarpan (talk) 17:15, 9 August 2009 (UTC)JDBC is Java application programming interface that allows the Java programmers to access database management system from Java code. It was developed by JavaSoft, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems. Definition Java Database Connectivity in short called as JDBC. It is a java API which enables the java programs to execute SQL statements. It is an application programming interface that defines how a java programmer can access the  database in tabular format from Java code using a set of standard interfaces and classes written in the Java programming language.

What is NASL?
Ssdarpan (talk) 12:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)NASL, as the name implies, is a scripting language specifically designed to run using the Nessus engine.The language is designed to provide the developer with all the tools he/she needs to write a network-based script, supporting as many network protocols as required. Every NASL is intended to be run as a test.Thus, its first part will always describe what the test is and what a positive result means. In most cases, the test is being done for a specific vulnerability, and a successful test means that the target (host/service) is vulnerable.The second part of the script runs NASL commands to provide a success/fail result.The script can also use the Nessus registry (the knowledge base) to provide more information on the target.

WikiProject Java and Portal
Hi guys! We just opened the Java portal for business and would appreciate if you could put a link to it in the 'Related portals' section of your portal. Thanks in advance! --   Alain R 3 4 5   Techno-Wiki-Geek    07:32, 15 November 2009 (UTC) To get this Duke, you can paste something like: |-  ! style="text-align:center;width:25%"|Java |}

Template:Navbox
Just wondering why the navigation boxes at the bottom of the page are not in Template:Navbox form? As they are now, they don't scale well when zooming on higher res monitors. I am willing to do the work myself, but not if it is just going to be undone in the next edit. Tigey (talk) 01:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Extreme Discovery Protocol
Extreme Discovery protocol is proprietary protocol from Extreme Networks. It is used to send information like system MAC, device name or VLAN information to neighboring Extreme devices. It is also used to transport "higher level" protocols like EAPS and ESRP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2009anandsingh (talk • contribs) 10:30, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It looks like you're trying to start an article. If you are, please see Your first article.  WackyWace  talk to me, people 09:28, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

web development company
web development company —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rob.karthi (talk • contribs) 18:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry? If you're looking to request an article, please go to WP:Requested articles.  WackyWace  talk to me, people 09:26, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Mangled list of portal topics under Computer Science
The portal list of subjects for computer science is scrambled. It lists: Computer science Cryptography Artificial intelligence • Free software • Information technology • Internet • Programming • Software engineering

NB: artificial intelligence, free software, etc. are NOT subcategories of cryptography! Rather, they (along with cryptography) are subcategories of computer science. The list should read: Computer science Artificial intelligence • Cryptography • Free software • Information technology • Internet • Programming • Software engineering

I don't know how to edit this portal list. Please edit if you are able to do so. Ross Fraser (talk) 05:15, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * . Thank you for pointing that out. -- &oelig; &trade; 00:16, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

ideas to improve portal
The "Did you know.." section could be modified so that it changes randomly (I did this for Portal:Human spaceflight, and it seems to work well there). Also, the intro box could be improved.. instead of giving a strict definition, it's probably better to give some obvious and far reaching examples. In particular, it might be a good idea to provide links to other portals (like some featured portals: Aviation, Internet, Electronics, Trains), maybe with little icons. This might seem more useful and inviting for the reader. Mlm42 (talk) 03:16, 13 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I think those are all great ideas, especially the dynamic DYK. It would be great if you could implement this here as well as the other improvements you mentioned. -- &oelig; &trade; 18:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've done the dynamic DYK; more content can now be added to the subpages listed at Portal:Technology/Did you know. Mlm42 (talk) 21:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 118.216.89.197, 23 November 2010
edit semi-protected

118.216.89.197 (talk) 14:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * No request made; disabling template. If you want to make a request, remove the "tl|" from the edit semi-protected above, and add your request between the lines that say "begin request" and "end request". BencherliteTalk 14:52, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from, 30 October 2011
big dog

Sandracortes79 (talk) 02:44, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Your request does not explain how you would like the page to be edited. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

CASTERBRIDGE
Its a small town at the north side of the england. the town is famous for the growth of corn. the town produce a large amount of corn in the north side of ENGLAND. The famous author of english "THOMAS HARDY" was from englang. The is beutifully arranged on the natural rock hills. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.51.23.195 (talk) 10:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and you can read about it at Casterbridge and Dorchester, Dorset. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Hydraulic fracturing
There is a request for comment concerning the Hydraulic fracturing article. Beagel (talk) 18:45, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Why heat metal every time for doing something? Why so many manufacturing processes with one scientific principle rather than the opposite
A true philosopher would never heat up metal to create cover for people, bring oxygen to a place, make a new place or to cover chemical reactions. One should try bringing in only that is needed. Any chamber with the thermos flask technology is great to be working as a oil tanker or fuel tank. We have to make this advancement in technology. Why nail rt iron racks to keep shoes or utensils over the walls rather than editing the wall itself. When we can do the same thing physically much easily then why heat it up, bring it into the shaper and make the desired shaped when a drilling machine does the same thing better. Of course it would take more time cause the industry has spread and got fascinated to that thing that way. It sounds foolish but a smooth surface like cottoned bags or just thick non-wool cloth that absorbs vibrations and shocks using scientific principles like a philosopher would give much more comfort than a million costing sofa set which requires so many manufacturing processes to work on the raw material nerdily. Khpatil (talk) 03:29, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Featured Portal drive
Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Featured Portal drive =.
 * Reformatting process =.

Update on Selected articles section
&mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Reformatted Selected articles section.
 * 2) Gone through 1-42 and replaced with WP:FA class articles.
 * 3) Next to check through all entries up to 52.
 * 4) Then move on to other sections and double-check quality of those, probably on to reformatting rest of portal after that.
 * ✅, did a check through all fifty-two (52) selections pages, now all are selected articles of WP:FA or WP:GA level of quality. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:17, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Next steps for this section
 * 1) Add in more WP:GA quality articles on topic of technology.
 * 2) Expand with rest of entries from Category:GA-Class Technology articles.
 * 3) Go through entries from Category:GA-Class Engineering articles.
 * 4) Check over entries at Category:FA-Class electronic articles and Category:GA-Class electronic articles.

In this month
&mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:04, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Added new sect, In this month, for Selected anniversaries.
 * 2) Subpage is at Portal:Technology/Selected anniversaries.
 * 3) Next have to go through and add four (4) entries per page, with one picture per subpage, for remaining months.
 * 4) Then it will automatically rotate through the months.
 * ✅, fleshed out entries. Now have four (4) entries for all months. Feel free to swap or modify them, but let's please keep them to four entries per selection. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:21, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Please don't remove Selected anniversaries
Please don't remove this just yet, I'll be adding more very shortly. :)

Thank you for your patience in this matter, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:56, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK slots done
DYK slots done.

Thirty (30) sets of three (3) DYKs each, with a variety of different topics related to technology in one way or another.

Next, on to filling out the rest of those Selected anniversaries, as mentioned, above.

Cheers,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅, per above, DYK done up to 30, and Selected anniversaries ✅. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

nokia 770
hi i just got anew nokia 770 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.43.196 (talk) 23:21, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Possibles to add
&mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:49, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Fabyan Windmill
 * 2) Early skyscrapers
 * Okay this is now ✅. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:25, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Mobile phone cameras
This might seem oddly specific, but I'd like to post it here, since there's no mobile phones portal I'm aware of.

I like to use Wikipedia as my primary source of information regarding many things including mobile phones. I'm often interested to see what kind of cameras they have, and there is one single important metric in judging a camera's quality — the sensor size. Unfortunately, it is almost never listed. Instead, one can find a list with 10 entries relating to the camera, but no sensor size.

Can we add the sensor size as the primary attribute of the camera and always cite it if we find information on it? Can someone help me add some sensor sizes to some mobile phones? Homei (talk) 12:54, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Category sort
Change Category:Technology sort order from space to *. 203.173.186.163 (talk) 20:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 22:53, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Village Pump proposal to delete all Portals
Editors might be interested to see a discussion concerning the proposed deletion of all Portals across Wikipedia. See Village_pump_(proposals) Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:44, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject
WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:47, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Typographical error in header
There's a typografical error in the portal's header. It says "The Technology poortal" instead of "The Technology Portal". Polux701 (talk) 18:21, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Missing image
There's a photo caption for MS Majesty of the Seas, which when I click past it, doesn't seem to have a corresponding image. -- Beland (talk) 18:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

P:T listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect P:T. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 00:06, 11 May 2019 (UTC)