Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/RISC OS


 * 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 resulting WikiProject was created at WP:WikiProject RISC OS Armbrust The Homonculus 09:11, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Description
Improving Wikipedia's coverage of the RISC OS computer operating system, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This is a retrospective request to determine the status of the Project, which was created more than one year ago. Previous relevant discussions are at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject RISC OS and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 11. Apologies again for not coming here at the time - it was all rather daunting back then. Thanks for reading. -- Trevj (talk) 11:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * Most articles already identified, at WP:RISCOS
 * risc os articles (number of pages in the category: )
 * acorn computers (number of pages in the category: 63 + subcategories)
 * acorn archimedes (redirect - delete?)


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.




 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
 * This is a specialized topic area, per similar daughter projects/task forces existing in other areas of interest. Related to WikiProject Computing.

Support
Please specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) -- Trevj (talk) 11:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: There are currently 9 participants (including me) listed in the participant list.

Discussion

 * There's no requirement that new WikiProjects go through a formal proposal process; the mechanism is in place to assist editors uncertain of whether a WikiProject should be created, not to prevent them from doing so. So, from a procedural standpoint, a "retrospective" request isn't really necessary; if the project has been created and is active, then there's no real reason why it would need any sort of "approval". More generally, though, I wonder if perhaps the number of articles specific to the OS itself might be too small to sustain a full WikiProject?  Perhaps it would be better to combine all the individual OS-level projects as task forces of either WikiProject Computing or a new WikiProject Operating systems? Kirill [talk] 11:54, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Very useful comments. Thanks for clarifying. The task force scenario is exactly the sort of thing which could do with tidying up. -- Trevj (talk) 11:59, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've had a look at your project and am impressed with the initiative you've taken. I am concerned that the topic is too narrow to sustain the project in the long term. Making it a task force under WP:COMP would keep the project from every becoming an orphan. --Kvng (talk) 13:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * So, per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject RISC OS, should the project be moved to WikiProject Computing/RISC OS task force? Could it still be termed WikiProject RISC OS? How would this affect the article alerts and the cleanup listing? -- Trevj (talk) 14:49, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I was about to list this at WP:AN/RFC but have posted at Talkback to Kvng instead. Maybe we should wait a while longer to see how things evolve. -- Trevj (talk) 08:36, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for contacting me. This page is still on my watchlist but I missed it. If you want to pursue this further, you should probably also list this at WP:RFC or wherever is most appropriate. There has not been a lot of discussion and what you do have is not fully supportive of your proposal. I'm not an expert in WikiProject systems. I modeled my suggestion above off WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force where I'm an active member. You would, at minimum, get the functionality you see there. More is probably possible. -—Kvng 16:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've also notified Kirill Lokshin, and will list at WP:RFC (or other suggested avenue) in the future. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 07:20, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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 at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.