Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Barcode


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. Only one interested editor; no discussion has taken place since September.  PJvanMill ) talk ( 11:46, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Barcode is created to improve and add new encyclopaedical information related with barcodes to the Wikipedia. Current information about barcodes is unorganized and looks like some blog. As a bright example we have article about application Barcode Scanner based on ZXing, but we don’t have any information about ZXing – powerful barcodes generation and recognition framework.

Because project Barcode touches barcodes specifications, barcode software and barcode related hardware also recognition and generation methods it is impossible to create single task force in any of these projects because project Barcode takes parts from all of them.

If you would like to help you could join to the project and add own task to Todo List or help improve existing tasks.

Goals
WikiProject Barcode aims to organise, expand and improve encyclopaedical information related with barcodes, also add new or improve existing articles about:
 * barcode types/symbologies;
 * barcode software and hardware tools;
 * usage barcodes in different areas of business and life;
 * barcode recognition/generation methods;
 * historical moments of barcodes usage and their influence;
 * rebutting with facts, esoteric theories about barcodes, like “Mark of the Beast”.

Scope
WikiProject Barcode scope is focused on barcode related topics including, but not limited to:
 * barcode types/symbologies;
 * barcode frameworks;
 * barcode software;
 * barcode hardware scanners/barcode label printers;
 * barcode applications in standards, like Swiss QR-Code;
 * barcode standardizing organizations like GS1, AIM, ISO
 * barcode related computer science articles;
 * barcode history.

Members

 * 1) Alexandr Gavriluk (talk) 18 June 2020

Article Statistics

 * Tracking progress
 * Using the bot

Todo List

 * 1) Improve barcode history as new article. As markup this article could be used.
 * 2) Implement Comparison of Barcode recognition/generation software like made in this article.

Categories

 * Category:Automatic identification and data capture
 * Category:Barcodes
 * Category:Encodings

Templates

 * Template: Barcodes

Related projects

 * WikiProject Computing
 * WikiProject Computer Vision
 * WikiProject Computer Science
 * WikiProject Software
 * WikiProject Technology

Discussion
User:Alexandr.gavriluk, WikiProjects (the groups themselves) are usually not successful when a lone editor wants to create one. Have you considered alternatives such as a task force, joining an existing group with a related scope, working informally or the other recommendations at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Before you begin? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:51, 31 August 2020 (UTC) Yes I added description to barcode page WikiProject Software page and WikiProject Technology page. However, currently, I am not in too harry so I will continue improving barcode data in the wiki by myself. Alexandr.gavriluk (talk) 01:07, 1 September 2020 (UTC)