Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Apple Inc./Archive 4

iOS 11 - Screen Recorder
I have noticed that nothing so far has been written about the new IOS 11 feature Screen Recording. It is mentioned in the summary however a description has been omitted from the article. It's a pretty significant feature of the new update, for those not familiar its uses for screen casting etc are huge. From what I understand, there were no apps available for this function unless its a jailbreak, the only other option was to use quicktime screen recording with the use of a computer.

Im not a veteran wiki contributor, so not sure where to start, but hope someone with more experience can help.


 * This feature was already described in iOS 11 article. "Users are able to record the screen natively.[33] In order to record the screen, users must first add the feature to the Control Center through the Settings app. Once added, users can start and stop recordings from a dedicated Control Center icon, with a distinctly colored bar appearing at the top of the screen indicating active recording. Pressing the bar gives the option to end recording, and videos are saved to the Photos app" Itsquietuptown (talk) 09:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

AppleCare article redirected to Apple Inc.
I noticed that AppleCare was recently redirected to Apple Inc.. Not sure what the reasoning was, but you might want to know. --William Graham talk 00:43, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Apache OpenOffice
Hi, there. I invite everyone to participate in the polite ongoing discussion. --Entalpia2 (talk) 15:09, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

The discussion is at Talk:Apache OpenOffice. --Entalpia2 (talk) 21:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

RfC on Foursquare COI edit requests
Hi all! Over on Foursquare's talk page, I've shared some COI edit requests for community review and feedback, and opened an RfC to invite further discussion. If anyone here is interested in taking a look and sharing your thoughts, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 15:18, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Apple TV
Apple TV, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 23:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * There are also issues with the Apple Inc. litigation page as well (see Talk:Apple Inc. litigation). AIRcorn (talk) 23:33, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

March 2019 Welcome
Hello everyone. Thank you for visiting the project, especially if you just received the March 2019 invitation. Please reply here to name your concerns, objectives, past efforts, suggestions, or questions for the past, present, or future of WikiProject Apple Inc.

WikiProject Apple Inc. covers a huge range of subjects and I'd appreciate an overview, including a review of why it went dormant, what has worked, what hasn't worked, and maybe how it compares to other WikiProjects. I'll continue orienting myself with it. I've never been officially involved with this particular WikiProject until now. I saw that it was dormant and I'm too big of an Apple fan and editor to let it go so I asked RhinosF1 to do some cool stuff and he's just brilliant.

We have a Mac task force and an iOS task force. Without having done any overview statistical analysis, I've wondered about whether we need to make a new task force or special interest group for Apple II or for Legacy topics in general. Apple culture contains many subcultures and genres: Apple II, 68k Mac, PowerPC Mac, Newton, Pippin, AppleLink and eWorld, NeXT, iPhone, iPad, iPod, operating systems, enterprise products, peripherals, prototypes and skunkworks, marketing, history, personnel, alliances and standards, and artistic works. So I would like a sense of how to correspond those real-world topics to WikiProject organization. We need to be able to make sense of that ocean of information day to day, to organize, motivate, and track progress.

For example, many of the Apple II, Apple III, and Lisa articles are choked with unencyclopedic WP:FANCRUFT, WP:TRIVIA, WP:NOTMANUAL, WP:NOTHOWTO and sometimes light on history, impact, and WP:RS WP:NPOV WP:N. Some should be merged or deleted. They have the general stank of the 2008 and prior Wikipedia eras of "anything goes" and they need to be corrected and modernized without being destroyed. I would hope that some of the unencyclopedic content could be rehomed to a fan community wiki or to their Talk pages, but we need to be gentle, patient, tolerant, and decisive. What are your areas of concern?

I have been an active editor for several years in computing and video games, as my user page details. Lately, Taligent, Workplace OS, Copland (operating system), Think different, and AIM alliance are my personal works in progress. I am a deep researcher of Apple and Nintendo history, from prehistory to founding to the early 2000s. I have a stack of many key Apple history books as listed in our Resources area, plus Taligent, PowerPC, some OS/2, and video games. I would gladly act as a reference librarian to look through them if anyone has questions.

Thank you and welcome back! Let's make a dent in the universe. I would urge anyone to search youtube for the sadly nonfree "think different full version" to remember why we do what we do. Here's to the crazy ones: — Smuckola(talk) 07:47, 18 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I will contribute bits to earlier Mac, Pippin, and such. Have some more pics I can upload.  Pester me. Flightsoffancy (talk) 19:48, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Just contributed with list of Reliable Sources for WikiProject Apple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Apple_Inc./Resources#Sources). Feedback is welcome. Coel Jo (talk) 01:41, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Pro theme
I stumbled into this page from the Brushed Metal interface page, and I’m wondering whether it shouldn’t just be redirected somewhere. There’s next to no content or context, I couldn’t find much meaningful discussion of the Pro theme beyond specific mentions of interface stuff for separate applications, and as the outdated image shows, what the ‘pro theme’ looks like varies from application to application. It’s basically a framework that doesn’t seem to demonstrate notability. Any objections to redirecting? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 15:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Merger discussion for iPhone 11
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;iPhone 11&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 14:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Applesoft BASIC lexer?
Does anyone have experience with making new lexers for SyntaxHighlight, or does anyone know how difficult it might be to create one for Applesoft BASIC? We use SyntaxHighlight in the article, but there's no lexer specifically for that dialect.

As far as I can tell, the existing, generic "basic" lexer that we use for code in the Applesoft BASIC article is already extremely close, and has only a few minor hitches (like dealing with multi-line  statements). That being the case, it seemed like it might not take that much to add proper support for Applesoft BASIC to Pygment's list of supported languages (which I think would be fantastic), but I just wanted to get others' thoughts and input. Do-able? I know nothing myself about how to go about building a lexer, but am willing to research it and give it a shot if no one else is familiar. Thanks! ╠╣uw [ talk ] 18:05, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Non-free screenshot template?
Hello, I need to help and get this template, unlike  which is used for Microsoft products as well that can display a non-free images with a notice.

So please I need my help, and get this template done.

Thank you. --MysticMadness12 (talk) 09:49, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Smart HDR
Does anyone fancy staring Smart HDR? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

IPod Touch (5th generation)
Article: IPod Touch (5th generation)

I have started to reassess the above article. Could someone from WP:Apple Inc. do the rest of the assessment? Adamdaley (talk) 05:36, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Apple Silicon Template
Howdy, I threw together a new template just for the Apple chips; I know it's currently part of the Apple hardware template, but I was wondering if it might be worth separating. I haven't added it to any pages yet, because I wanted to throw it out there. Ehler (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I/O Kit nominated for deletion
See discussion at Articles for deletion/I/O Kit. --Ysangkok (talk) 16:29, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Power Mac G4 Cube
I've started a major revamp of this article; as one of Apple's most notorious failures there's a ton of good content out there to flesh this out, and I've got an eye out towards making it an FA one of these days. Extra hands welcome and encouraged. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 17:32, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

iPad article titles
We seem to have two different title conventions for iPad articles and it's very confusing. We have iPad (nth generation) which then changes to iPad (yyyy), from a discussion here. iPad Air then uses (yyyy) format, meanwhile the iPad Mini (2019) article was renamed iPad Mini (5th generation) in a discussion here, and iPad Pro also uses the (nth generation) format. This doesn't meet the goals set out in WP:CONSISTENT. Tboa talk. 07:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Move and split discussions at iPad
Hi all! There's a current discussion to split and rename the iPad article. You're all invited to participate. Itsquietuptown  t • c 10:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

IPad Pro (5th generation)
Calling all members, please helps me with the article IPad Pro (5th generation). I am nominating it to Good Article. Wingwatchers (talk) 05:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

iPad article title consistency
In the interest of consistency, I have requested a move of the three iPad articles which are not listed by their generation: Talk:IPad (2019). Thank you — HTGS (talk) 05:02, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

FORCEDENTRY
I've jusr created an article on FORCEDENTRY, a major hack of pretty much the whole Apple endpoint ecosystem that has just been revealed. I'd appreciate any help that other editors can give to improve it. -- The Anome (talk) 23:52, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-active or inactive?
Hello!

I did a cleanup of several IT-related as mentioned here. This WikiProject was part of that cleanup in which I assumed it is inactive. One user contacted me on my talk page and mentioned that WP:APPLE is still semi-active. I would like to ask:
 * The last human edit on this very talk page was 5 months ago.
 * In the last two years the posting frequency (the bots not counted) was less than one post per month
 * Who is currently active here and
 * What is a good metric to see the activity of this WikiProject?

Greets GavriilaDmitriev  (talk • they/them) 09:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed split at Talk:Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max
There is a proposed split discussion at Talk:Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Itsquietuptown ✉️📜 06:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

FA review for NeXT
I have nominated NeXT for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.