Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS

Welcome to WikiProject RISC OS. A number of Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of RISC OS and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, enquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals

 * Raise the quality and expand the range of the articles about RISC OS, its hardware and software.
 * For articles of Top and High importance, the target is good article. It may be appropriate to have a target of featured article in some circumstances.


 * Create new articles on notable RISC OS related topics.
 * Spread awareness of RISC OS, in a respectful and realistic manner, to other Wikipedians.

Scope

 * Within the English Wikipedia, all articles relating to RISC OS capable hardware, the OS itself, OS components, RISC OS software and games, companies and individuals that provided hardware/software for the platform. Note: Where appropriate, please follow the guidance for biographies of living persons.
 * Through collaboration with speakers of other languages, include information sharing with other Wikipedias, perhaps by requesting translations of articles of an acceptable quality:
 * French Wikipedia
 * Projet:Informatique, Projet:Traduction (e.g. Discussion:An Open Letter to Hobbyists/Traduction)

Guidelines

 * Be neutral.
 * Place your experience of RISC OS within the context of the wider world of Operating Systems and software.
 * When dealing with software or companies that came to be larger or more well known for their non-RISC OS work, be careful not to place undue prominence on their RISC OS work.
 * Stick to the facts, avoid hyperbole, reference everything with reliable sources. Have fun.
 * Of course follow the standard Wikipedia guidelines for article editing. In particular the Five Pillars.
 * Follow guidance for getting articles classified as good or featured.
 * The creation of new articles should (for your first article) ideally be done using the Article wizard, which automatically includes a review process.
 * Some comprehensive advice (containing useful links) is given at Your first article.
 * You may also want to initially create such articles in your own userspace.
 * When trying to make sense of an article's edit history, reference can be made to the glossary of commonly used abbreviations.
 * Make technical articles understandable (and WP:LEADLINK)

Use of images

 * Free content is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.
 * This applies to all media, including images.
 * Copyright holders may be requested to licence their work under free use. It is advised that this be done using a standard email template.
 * Where a free equivalent is not available or could not be created (e.g. copyrighted works), non-free content may be permissible. In this case, you may wish to include File:Wikipedia non-free placeholder.png within userspace article drafts.
 * To create a free screenshot
 * Have to use a free operating system?

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * Instructions
 * [ Create an account] (if you don't already have one)
 * Edit this section by clicking on [ edit]  (sections of pages have their own edit links to the right)
 * Add your name (and interest, if you choose) as follows
 * New entries in alphabetical order, please.
 *  #—(areas of personal interest) 
 * Please note that it is "User|" not "User:" and five tildes at the end, not four.


 * Check your entry by clicking 'Show preview' below the edit window
 * When you're satisfied that it's correct, click 'Save page'
 * If you wish, you can include the userbox User WP RISCOS on your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.


 * Participant list
 * 1) — (Acorn Hardware) 12:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) —(On the off-chance that I have something to contribute. You never know.) 11:02, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) — 16:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) — 10:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) —(references, style, refs from The Micro User printed mag, current usage) 17:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 6) — 13:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 7) —(I am interested in working on ideas, talks, pictures. I collect Acorns. Running Acorn Archimedes Facebook page) 10:29, 15 March 2011
 * 8) —(I summarise online forum for Archive magazine; wide interests) 01:06, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 9) —(It's complicated) 15:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Articles
Articles are added into the project by the use of the WikiProject Computing banner on the Article's Talk page, adding in the  and  Low/Mid/High/Top fields.

Note that the importance of an article within WikiProject RISC OS is not the same as its importance in WikiProject Computing. When assessing articles, take care not to inflate the computing importance. Most articles in this project have general computing importance=low. (RISC OS itself has general computing importance=mid.) If you're uncomfortable assessing the general computing importance, you can leave it blank.

The following is a suggestion as to how to internally grade using the  parameter.

The bot runs daily or so (|or click here for manual update) to update this table of items in the RISC OS project.

You have no idea how difficult this sodding table was to setup :D--Flibble (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Article list
Use of the WikiProject Computing banner automatically adds articles to the relevant category. The article list can be browsed via the category tree below.

Archived alerts

 * /Article alerts/Archive

Assessment log

 * RISC OS articles by quality log

Pageview stats

 * Popular pages

Featured content

 * There are currently no featured articles.

Candidates

 * There are currently no featured article candidates, as there are no articles currently satisfying the criteria.

Former featured articles

 * A former featured article was Acorn computers.

New articles
Please feel free to list your new RISC OS-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
 * Drawing attention to new pages

Suggested articles
Articles that you think should be written, please remove from the list once the article is started.

Suggested additions to existing articles
Note: All such additions should be included in a respectful and realistic manner, i.e. this is not comp.sys.acorn.advocacy!


 * - Low --Trevj (talk) 08:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * - Low --Trevj (talk) 11:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * - Low --Trevj (talk) 08:20, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggested templates

 * - Low --Trevj (talk) 12:59, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup

 * Cleanup listing

Assessment

 * Assessment

Peer review

 * Automated peer review
 * Peer review

Categories

 * Category:ARM architecture
 * Category:Acorn Computers operating systems
 * Category:Acorn Archimedes games
 * Category:RISC OS software

Generic
Use of the following templates may be appropriate:


 * Infobox filesystem
 * Infobox computing device
 * Infobox OS
 * Infobox OS version
 * Infobox software
 * Infobox software license
 * Infobox VG
 * VG Requirements



Resources
The following resource tools may be helpful.


 * Documents at acorn.chriswhy.co.uk courtesy of Chris Whytehead
 * The PCW index 1978-June 1989
 * RISCWorld articles index
 * Educational software reviews (from EC&T magazine as far as I can tell... can anyone confirm this?)
 * Machine TRMs


 * ProveIt, a tool for viewing, editing, adding, and inserting references (requires JavaScript). Enable in Preferences -> Gadgets
 * Reference generator
 * tab2wiki
 * html2wiki
 * Citation tools at WikiProject Mathematics


 * For UK residents signing up at Manchester Library online gives you free access to the online archives of the Times, The Guardian and The Observer, with many articles about Acorn throughout their history.--Flibble (talk) 15:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500140/library_online_services/110/24_hour_library

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