Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 3

Windows VISTA
Compare windows vista and XP...

--Wikiprabhu 18:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Mechagodzilla - does it really fall under the scope of Computing?
On the Talk page for Mechagodzilla is states that "This article is within the scope of Computing WikiProject". Is that an error? I was going to add something to the Talk page about the article needing serious attention (5 spelling errors in one section, which I corrected, grammar which I didn't, other standards) but I see no way to edit the talk page. Are there no individual Talk pages now for articles added to a project? Thank you. Mvandemar 02:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's an error... someone rather dumbly programmed a bot to tag far too many articles as being part of this WikiProject, and is apparently unwilling to discuss or revert their changes. -/- Warren 15:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Computation
I have nominated Category:Computation for deletion here. I know that sounds odd but look at the category and you will see what I mean. CMummert · talk 18:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

CPU cache FAR
CPU cache has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 03:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Protocol support
The table for protocol support is needed in two pages:
 * Comparison of instant messaging clients
 * Multiprotocol instant messaging application

Can you make a template of it and change both pages accordingly? Thank you 91.35.185.115 15:38, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I will do my very best to get an expert coder on that project! Cheers! Ariel ♥ Gold 16:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

As I am not the correct person to complete this (I currently do not have a sufficient knowledge of tables here on Wikipedia) I am hoping someone here may be able to honor the request by the poster to my page. (I have also posted this on the talk page of the two articles above, as advised by the Admin that I went to for advice.) Thank you! Ariel ♥ Gold 11:40, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

opinions sought for small company
There is a very slow edit war going on at Segger Microcontroller Systems. The article was deleted once, but reappeared within a month. An anonymous editor removed the   and    tags. Discussion has been very slow, so additional opinions about the notability of this article would be welcome. —EncMstr 19:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Instant Messaging Task Force
I would be interested in setting up an Instant Messaging task force within your Wikiproject. I thought I would seek consensus before doing so, as the topic isn't quite big enough for a full-blown Wikiproject, I think. I can work out a banner, (unless you'd like to use a parameter of your existing banner), and I could set up pages and all that. Reply here if you think it's a good idea. GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 03:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

VBA article needs a lot of work - it's wrong in large parts.
Since some one obviously thinks it's right, perhaps a couple of independent reviews would be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.166.15 (talk) 07:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

January 0 AfD
Your participation at Articles for deletion/January 0 would be most welcome. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 17:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: TriangleOS

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * updated --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: IBM Project Zero

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: Compaq Presario SR1234NX

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Mega Drive Technical Specifications
I've been working on the Sega Mega Drive article and eventually, I would like to push it up to FA standard but I'm lacking and particular background technical knowledge so it's very hard for me to complete the technical specifications section. I am making a request to anyone who has the knowledge or ability to complete or make any addition to the "Technical Specifications" section of the Mega Drive article to please do so.

Notes about the "Technical Specifications" section:


 * The boxes on the left eventually need to go and be replaced with full written sections. Similar to the SNES article.
 * The infoboxes on the right need to be filled in fully

Any help at all would be appreciated, thanks. Crimsonfox 12:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Quick update on this. I've written up most of the sections now but again, I can't check over it to make sure it makes sense. Rather than having to write the sections, ANY input would nice to see if I'm writing up technical specifications properly. Thanks. Crimsonfox 10:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: PeSAN

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 13:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Minesweeper
Can someone please take a look at Minesweeper (computer game), and add a comment under the talk page. I have done some cleanup, but I need some advice/tips on how to make it better. Paxinum 18:49, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I took a quick look and noticed a couple of problems.
 * There's a lack of sources.
 * The "Shared Mine Analysis" section uses "you", change that.

If you want an in depth review, I suggest requesting over at WikiProject_Video_games/Peer_review Crimsonfox 19:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

New Infobox
(note: updated by Chris Cunningham 12:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC))

I didn't know where on the project page to place this, so I though I would mention it here. I have created a new infobox at Infobox Computer. It doesn't have very many fields, because I am not sure what people would want, but I look forward to seeing it developed. Also, it is currently only implemented at iMac, so it needs editors to add it to the pages of their favorite computer.

Infobox work
There are actually two infoboxen for this project: template:infobox Computer (which is used by Mac articles) and template:infobox computer (used by everything else). I've merged the two using the best bits of both at template:infobox computer, and I'm going to start shuffling everything over there. (I've also corrected the example above to prevent it from breaking once the merge is done.) Chris Cunningham 12:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles
Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me). This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * List of basic computer science topics
 * List of basic information technology topics
 * List of basic computer programming topics

9/9/99
I was working in an Investment Bank and we had a load of problems on 9th Sept 1999. These seem to have originated from old systems using sequential files with end of file maked by a 9/9/99 in a date field in the final record. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.133.226 (talk) 14:42, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Windows XP FAR
Windows XP has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. OSX (talk • contributions) 10:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Restructure project page
After years of updates, I would suggest to restructure this project page.

First of all, keep this project page as an index to articles only. This mean paragraph on things such as pseudocode should be moved into separate page.

Secondly, reorganize links to articles. For example:
 * 1) History of computing
 * 2) Computer hardware
 * 3) History of computer hardware
 * 4) Hardware components
 * 5) Central processing unit (CPU)
 * 6) Primary storages
 * 7) Secondary storages
 * 8) Input
 * 9) Output
 * 10) Network devices
 * 11) Related topics
 * 12) Computer software
 * 13) History of computer software
 * 14) Types of software
 * 15) Applications
 * 16) Operating systems
 * 17) Databases
 * 18) Midwares
 * 19) Developing software
 * 20) Software development life cycle (SDLC)
 * 21) Development methodologies
 * 22) Computer Programming
 * 23) Programming languages
 * 24) Algorithms
 * 25) Related topics
 * 26) Software quality
 * 27) Computer Firmware
 * 28) History of computer firmware
 * 29) Types of firmware
 * 30) Related topics
 * 31) Computer network
 * 32) History of computer network
 * 33) Network topologies
 * 34) Network models
 * 35) OSI Model
 * 36) Related topics
 * 37) Network security
 * 38) Computer documentation
 * 39) History of computer documentation
 * 40) Types of documentation
 * 41) Related topics
 * 42) Technical writing
 * 43) Related topics
 * 44) Computer security

Francis Law (talk) 07:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: Single-page application

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Growler Guncam
I noticed that someone had put a redirect from the term "desktop capture" to this article about a commercial software. It seems to be an advertisement. The phrase has about 28000 hits. Is this notable? Shawnc (talk) 00:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Blogging Project
The Blogging Project has been tagged as inactive since September 2007. It was listed at WikiProject_Council/Inactive_projects with a suggested merge into the Websites project. Unfortunately, the Website project also appears to be inactive. The Blogging project has now been MfDed for demotion to a task force under Websites, but with Websites inactive, would the computing project is willing to step in and absorb them both as a single task force? AnmaFinotera (talk) 01:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Somewhat related, the Web Animation project has been tagged as being inactive since March. Would Computing want to pick it up as a task force? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Collectonian (talk • contribs) 01:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Articles ideas
The personal computer article is overburdened with too much ancient history of older personal computers and needs to be kept modern. That is why I put the landmark machines into the History of computing hardware (1960s–present) via this diff. I would propose an History of personal computers article if the History of computing hardware (1960s–present) is inviable but at least the History of computing hardware (1960s–present) should be greatly expanded to detail all the most important hardware coming out in this time period. As of right now it doesn't even mention CD-ROM, Key Drives, SD Cards, 802.11b and coffee shop hubs, etc. All major changes in computer hardware and usages. If the number of landmark items get overwhelming then I propose we break the history articles down by decades. The newest article being History of computing hardware (2000's-present) Alatari (talk) 13:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Someone pointed out an existing (albeit esoteric) article to me just now. Would anyone mind peeking at Koorde and telling me if it can be rendered intelligible to the average human being? ~Kylu ( u | t )  00:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Livescribe needs cleanup
Livescribe‎ reads like a press release / ad. Anybody interested in improving this? -- Writtenonsand (talk) 16:05, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Drupal interview
Dear all,

I'm preparing a Wikinews interview with Dries Buytaert, the head of Drupal. It would be very helpful if you could suggest questions on the interview preparation page.

cheers, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Electronic portfolio
The trail of a spamvertiser led me to Electronic portfolio. I deleted the latest, uh, contribution to this, but as for the remainder I hardly know where to start. "Electronic portfolio" is described so vaguely that it might cover just about anything, and followed by a great list of links to services. I clicked on one at random -- no, that's not true, not at random, as it's called "chalk and wire", an agreeably unpretentious name. I thereupon landed at a site that features praise that reads The Chalk and Wire ePortfolio product is the best we have seen in terms of being able to actually perform the claims of the company...Chalk and Wire understands assessment, so they ask the right questions in order to ascertain the heart of what we desire in terms of our research design…We were able to take the Chalk and Wire infrastructure and existing architecture and implement a university-wide ePortfolio system that provides timely feedback to students, and that will aggregate and disaggregate great amounts of assessment data in meaningful ways… To which my response is "WTF is that supposed to mean?" Maybe corporatese has a particularly strong soporific effect on me; could somebody who doesn't fall asleep as quickly as I do take a look at this article? I suspect that a lot of the links are merely to unremarkable commercial sites (however misty and grand their rhetoric), and should be cut pronto. -- Hoary (talk) 11:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Software distribution (*ware) articles
I suspect a lot of these articles could be reorganized, including merges and renames. It's really messy. There's currently some (fragmented) discussions on some of the pages about merging one or the other or cross-copying and what not. I think they could really use the guidance of an experienced editor. I myself am not sure what to do as there is just too much sprawl and I don't want to be accused of unilateral editing. Ham Pastrami (talk) 20:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

input and outs of the computer
could anyone put some list down on inputs and outputs of the computer as there is not much on the web pages i looked at as i am new to this sort of thing i was hoping to get a little help thanks —Preceding  comment added by Lindsay40 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 11 February 2008--Lindsay40 (talk) 20:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

The MSDN topic in Wiki is innacurate.
The MSDN topic in Wiki is innacurate. It leaves out versions and contains mistakes regarding which versions of it integrate with which products. One citation it contains is a link to a post on a discussion board. 172.165.31.210 (talk) 13:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

New task force per MfD decision
Per this MfD the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Early_computers has been merged into a task force here: WikiProject_Computing/Early_computers_task_force together with its subpages. It was the view of the MfD that there were resources worth preserving. Thanks.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Sort participants list??
Does anyone mind if I alphabetically sort the list of participants?? Phillip (talk) 19:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

History of Computing
I am new to this project and i would love to help with anything. I have noticed that the history of computing section of the Goals had no links or anthing for it. So i have just finished creating a page which lists all of the pages which come under that category. Hope its use full! Thanks rockyourworld (talk) 19:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

ASCII FAR
ASCII has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 01:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Computing: Articles of unclear notability
Hello,

there are currently 12 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 2008-03-12 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for advice: History of IBM mainframe operating systems
Kubanczyk and I both thought the collection of articles about IBM mainframe operating systems was poorly structured, contained a lot of duplication, etc., so we set out to rationalise them. The root article is History of IBM mainframe operating systems. The discussions are mainly at Talk:History of IBM mainframe operating systems and User talk:Kubanczyk.

We've been stalled for a while because User talk:Kubanczyk and I disagree over whether to merge into OS/360 and successors all the content on MVS and its descendants, execpt to z/OS, the current member of that lineage. There is discussion of the issue at Talk:OS/360 and successors as well as at the Talk pages I already mentioned.

It would be helpful if someone could check out the articles and offer some suggestions on this issue. Philcha (talk) 09:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of CASTLE fight
An article that you may be interested in, CASTLE fight, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/CASTLE fight. Thank you. Paulbrock (talk) 13:22, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Malware
Even though how much important a subject is, when its out contributors, it won't work out for the learners. That's my point.I think WikiProject Malware is an important one since it aims to improve articles about malwares. Malwares will always be a part of computing or computer science, when people got their computers infected, and turn for Wikipedia for answers about the malware that deserted them and stumble only on stubs or start class articles, what would they think about it? Please lets revive this WikiPrject because I've seen a lot of Malware articles in here and most are, either stubs or starter class articles. If this WikiProject is revived, this will be a great help on improving such articles and will also be a great help for readers alike. All we need now are some participants to work this project out. Please help.

Neffyring (talk) 08:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)neffyring