Talk:List of Apple Inc. media events/Archives/2012

Wikiproject Computing: Include? What importance?
(I have invited 9 10 active editors from Wikiproject Computing Assessment to join this discussion.) Discussion: And if so, Your participation is appreciated! Thanks... Zad68 (talk) 18:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Does the article Apple media events fall under Wikiproject Computing?
 * 2) What Importance (Top, High, Mid, Low) should it be assigned?


 * I think it makes sense to label it as part of the Computing project because 1) Apple is a huge computing company and 2) it falls under "anything that covers a general area of knowledge" and "anything that fills in more specific information of certain areas" criteria in the Importance assessment table. If "important websites" are part of the computing project, so are events from a notable computing company. (Though I think "mid" importance makes more sense; the events are less important than the products announced in them). Diego (talk) 18:49, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * At WP:COMP our primary competence is technical. I have taken importance assessment down a notch. I don't have a strong feeling about whether or not this article should be included as part of WP:COMP. --Kvng (talk) 19:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * While I think it meets "Popular applications, architectures, or anything that covers a general area of knowledge" (i.e. the High importance level) I'm happy to accept Mid as the importance level if that's what you guys would prefer to do. With regards to the WikiProject, clearly it is in scope as the scope is "This WikiProject aims to organise, expand and improve all Wikipedia's articles on areas or subjects relating to computers, computing, and information technology" - I don't think you can really deny that it meets that extremely broad criterion. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 20:58, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I think that even the WP:COMP Scope and Goals should be changed to take into consideration:


 * social impact of computer and information technology: see for example most of Cortada books on the impact on American companies and government of computing
 * the traditional topics in computer is evolving: Workstation, client sw and hw are changing: most of the smartphone we hold is much more powerfull that most servers we held
 * Apple and other companies (Amazon, facebook, google) are changing the way we mean computing and our every day life. Most of the traditional division about topics is changing: as some your ago Negroponte predicted now we are seeing the TV on a phone and we use TV to surf the internet
 * I hope that this consideration can be taken in consideration while improving this article and also the scope and goals of the project
 * To answer the question: yes it is a computer article and is Mid importance.

--Pastore Italy (talk) 07:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It's certainly in the scope of computing and I agree with a mid-importance assessment. --Pnm (talk) 18:23, 18 March 2012 (UTC)