User:Dwayne/Sandbox/WikiProjectMicrosoft

Welcome to WikiProject Microsoft, not to get into confusion with WikiProject Microsoft Windows. WikiProject Microsoft is a group of editors who are willing to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Microsoft Inc., it's technologies, web properties & it's people. This WikiProject is brand new and is welcoming editors to help out.


 * WikiProject Apple Inc. is to be placed on the corresponding talkpage of an article. This helps categorize the articles!  See example below:

Currentmaccotw
 * Currentmaccotw is for the current Macintosh collaboration and is to be placed on the corresponding talkpage of an article. See example:
 * formermaccotw is for old collaborations and is to be placed on the corresponding talkpage of an article. See example below:


 * Stub templates:
 * mac-stub is for stub articles relating to the Macintosh:
 * mac-software-stub is for stub articles relating to third party software for Macintosh.
 * General use:
 * cite mac to cite Macintosh tech specs
 * lowercase is used because Wikipedia software cannot display the first letter of a title as lowercase. However, Apple has many articles that do just that (like iPad).
 * Infobox information appliance is an infobox for hardware articles, such as MacBook Pro, where you can see the template in action.
 * Navigation:
 * Apple is a navigational template for Apple Inc.-related articles.
 * Apple hardware since 1998 is a navigational template for Apple hardware articles, preferably recent ones as the name says.
 * Apple software is used for software
 * Lists, tables, and timelines:
 * Complete timeline of Macintosh models
 * List of iPod models
 * Timeline of iPod models
 * Timeline of full-size iPod models
 * Timeline of compact iPod models
 * Timeline of MacBook family models
 * Timeline of Apple products
 * Timeline of Apple II family models
 * Table of current Macintosh models
 * Mac OS X


 * Project Apple Inc. for your user page or your talk page to keep track of this project (template shown at the top of this page). It does not add a category.
 * User WikiProject Apple Inc. is for UBX tags. It adds the page to Category:WikiProject Macintosh members. If you do not wish to display this template, add the category by regular means to your userpage.


 * Peer review—for those looking to make an article recognized content
 * How to upload icons
 * Starter code for articles
 * List of subpages


 * Our assessment department's goal is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Apple Inc. articles. Article ratings are used to help recognize excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the Version 1.0 Editorial Team program. Visit our assessment department for more info.

(founder,coordinator)