Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Internet/Archive 1

Proposed deletion: DeskBrowse
I think that perhaps software used to interact with the internet, either for content retrieval or content distribution, would perhaps fall within the scope of this WikiProject, in which case other related WikiProjects might be WikiProject Software and WikiProject Free software.


 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 20:30, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * updated --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: SimpleLog

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 17:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * updated --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 18:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: QStream

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 18:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Article for deletion: KauCom

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 13:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD: Off -page optimization
The article Off -page optimization is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 20:23, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Featured article review
Search engine optimization 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. Pyrospirit ( talk  ·  contribs ) 23:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion
An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ?  " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) -, member of WikiProject Council. 14:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

New media?
Does the article New media fall within the scope of this project? It could use some attention... -- Zim Zala Bim talk  22:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Internet
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:05, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

proposed deletion : cmSiteNavigation
cmSiteNavigation at Articles for deletion/CmSiteNavigation. I think this extension illustrates the utility of the HTML LINK tag, something that is rarely done. But it needs more substantiation. ⇔ ChristTrekker 19:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Computer virus AfD: Articles_for_deletion/Win32_Swizzor
FYI. 14:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Phorm rating
I'm not a member of this Project and thus don't want to rate articles on its behalf. However, I suggest that Phorm is a lot better than "Start" class. (This is not self-praise: my only contribution to the article has been to reformat a single footnote.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:52, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Twitter
I have also posted this message at WikiProjects Internet culture and Blogging.

In an attempt to get Twitter to Featured article status, it has been suggested to me that the article gets an independent copyedit check from an editor who isn't involved. As a Top-importance article in your WikiProject, I wondered if some of you would be willing to read the article through and correct any copyedit errors you come across. Thank you! Greg Tyler (t • c) 16:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Nominated for featured article review
nominated Mozilla Firefox 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

Sys-Con
The reliability of Sys-Con as a source is being discussed at Reliable sources/Noticeboard. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 04:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Peer review for Internet
Hi, I have opened a peer review for Internet at Peer review/Internet/archive2. If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could comment at the peer review to help improve the article. Thanks in advance!  Gary King ( talk ) 18:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Question
I wanted to ask a question about some research I want to do. I want to search approximately 20 different terms in google and find out where the Wikipedia page for each term ranks compared to other online resources. Specifically, I would be looking at terms for dermatologic conditions. So, for example, with the following search on my results screen Wikipedia is the first entry, followed by medscape. Can I use google trends/"Google Insights for Search" to accomplish this? Or is there some other way I can compare google pageranks? ---kilbad (talk) 21:06, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There are a number of online tools that come close to this, but not exactly. Why don't you use google and search for the 20 terms. Such questions are outside the scope of wikipedia. SunCreator (talk) 13:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Relevant AfD
Relevant AfD, at Articles for deletion/Rumor website parody of Glenn Beck. Cirt (talk) 03:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Java and Portal
Hi guys! We just opened the WikiProject Java for business and would appreciate if you could put a link to it in your 'Related projects' section. Thanks in advance! --   A l a i n  R 3 4 5  Techno-Wiki-Geek    23:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi guys! We just opened the Java portal for business and would appreciate if you could put a link to it in the 'Related portals' section of your portal. Thanks in advance! --   Alain R 3 4 5   <sup style="color:#ffb000;">Techno-Wiki-Geek    07:29, 15 November 2009 (UTC) To get this Duke, you can paste something like:

Cloud computing
Cloud computing lead could really use a bit of work. It is very confusing. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:58, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Internet history
See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories. Pcap ping  22:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Cyber Rights
I have started a peer review on the article Cyber Rights, which was recently promoted to Good Article quality status. Feel free to provide feedback, at Peer review/Cyber Rights/archive1. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion - Endeavour Software Project Management
Please see Articles for deletion/Endeavour Software Project Management (2nd nomination). --Ronbo76 (talk) 17:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Book:Internet
I recently added a chapter (Precursors and early dev.) in that book, but I don't know if I got everything, or if I gave some things undue prominence compared to others. Feedback? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:08, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD - Everybody Draw Mohammad Day
Please see Articles for deletion/Everybody Draw Mohammad Day. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Everybody Draw Mohammad Day

I made this change, was it accurate?
See diffs at Top-level domain. Thanks. AConcernedChicken (talk) 05:01, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Please discuss a proposed merge of Cyberterrorism and Internet and terrorism at Talk:Internet and terrorism. Fences &amp;  Windows  19:19, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Line Mode Browser
Can somebody look over the article and help me to improve the article? Something like a peer review would be good! Arena (web browser) was also expanded by me, how about this article? <b style="font-family:Courier New; display:inline; border:#009 1px dashed; padding:1px 6px 2px 7px; white-space:nowrap; color:#000000; font-size:smaller;">mabdul</b> 13:01, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD discussion page
Please see Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia. AFD discussion is at, Articles for deletion/Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 22:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

New sub-project: Semantic Web
As noted on the W3C mailing list for the semantic web (semantic-web@w3.org) the articles pertaining to that topic need work. How can we go about creating an effort to improve those pages and articles and recruit expert editors? Alexkozak (talk) 18:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Internet articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Internet articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:11, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD - The Bridge (2006 drama)
Relevant AFD, please see Articles for deletion/The Bridge (2006 drama). -- Cirt (talk) 06:17, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The Bridge (2006 drama)

Update on The Internet Portal

 * -- Update: Portal:Internet has recently become a Featured Portal. All of the articles at Portal:Internet in the "Selected article" section are of Good or Featured Quality Status.  Thanks to the efforts of folks from this project, for churning out such great high-quality material!  Keep up the great work getting articles to WP:GA and Featured Quality Status !  Cirt (talk) 16:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

New article: Beyond the First Amendment
New article, created, at Beyond the First Amendment. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

New article: Net.wars
New article, created, at Net.wars. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

aXXo GA reassessment
One of the articles under this project, aXXo, is having its good article status reassessed, and may be delisted. Feel free to comment on the review at Talk:AXXo/GA2.  <font face="Old English Text MT">Swarm  <font face="old english text mt">X 20:58, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Santorum (sexual neologism)
This article has recently been expanded with additional sources and referencing improvements. There is also some ongoing discussion about that, at the article's talk page. If you are interested, please have a look at Santorum (sexual neologism) and the associated talk page discussion at Talk:Santorum (sexual neologism). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Santorum (sexual neologism)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)
Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism).
 * Santorum (neologism)
 * Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 14:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Facepalm article for deletion
Please see Articles for deletion/Facepalm (3rd nomination). &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:48, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

The Cybersecurity Act of 2012
Where's the article? Here's the news stories. |/home/LegislativeData.php?n=BSS;c=112| Thomas locator link. It is true that this is at least 3rd year Lieberman has introduced it and just got a few sponsors. CarolMooreDC 18:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Someone started last week as Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act . CarolMooreDC 13:18, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Netscape pics
Several Netscape pictures have been nominated for deletion. You may be interested. See Files for deletion/2012 March 17

65.92.181.184 (talk) 03:29, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Possible FA
Featured article candidates/Everything That Happens Will Happen Today/archive4 I'm sorry to go stumping for this, but I've worked really hard on Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and I'd like someone to comment on the FAC so it can finally pass. Will someone please leave feedback there? Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

FAR notice
I have nominated Search engine optimization 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. Dana boomer (talk) 18:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Facebook statistics
Can someone update the article, following the recent IPO of Facebook, which has increased the traffic. Some suggestions I would point:

i) Add a secondary source, rather than Socialbakers.com ii) Increase the list to 100/150/200 countries iii) Add three more columns, namely Sl no, penetration, change% iv) Convert the external links in the stats into ref with cite templates v) Expand the text vi) Add more than one type of stats, if possible vii) Represent some data in form of graphs/charts or a better world map viii) Add better links in external links section ix) Have updates for all countries at one time, not like as it is ix) Rename to Statistics of Facebook

Anyone, please review this. By going around the topic, I also found an article unupdated for a long time, Facebook features. Thanks, extra 999  ( talk ) 09:32, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Ashton Kutcher on Twitter and Justin Bieber on Twitter as AFD
Ashton account has been relisted twice and needs consensus improvement. Bieber account is recently nominated and is yet to be relisted. Join in to discuss either. --George Ho (talk) 06:56, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Red vs. Blue FAR
I have nominated Red vs. Blue 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. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  09:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Chuck Norris facts Peer Review
Please see Peer review/Chuck Norris facts/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:36, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Web 1.0 (2nd nomination)

 * Please see Articles for deletion/Web 1.0 (2nd nomination). &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:36, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

New article: Urofsky v. Gilmore
I've created the new article, Urofsky v. Gilmore. Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page, Talk:Urofsky v. Gilmore. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Urofsky v. Gilmore

Beck v. Eiland-Hall for Peer Review

 * Beck v. Eiland-Hall

I've placed the article up for Peer Review.

Participation would be appreciated, at Peer review/Beck v. Eiland-Hall/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:38, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Created category for Streisand effect
I've gone ahead and created the category for Category:Streisand effect.
 * Category:Streisand effect

Please feel free to populate it with related articles.

Discussion is welcome at Category talk:Streisand effect.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:45, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Freedom of speech - for peer review
I've placed Portal:Freedom of speech up for portal peer review. Comments would be welcome, at Portal peer review/Freedom of speech/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:41, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Portal:Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech portal for Featured candidate
I've nominated Portal:Freedom of speech for Featured quality consideration, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Freedom of speech. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:49, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Questions of purview
What to tag? TCP/IP protocols that are of use on the interwebs proper (ie other than DHCP-style protocols that are only used on local isolated networks) are fairly obvious candidates to be dealt with here. Web boom/bust businesses and web 2.x businesses & certain Internet appliances, NGOs like IETF, ARPA, etc. seem to fit well here, as do. Seems to me like some overlap with the Computer networking WP would do more good than harm, but to try to duplicate the efforts of WikiProject Internet culture would have us drowning in pirates and ninjas. Thoughts? Other areas underserved?<font color="Blue">MrZaius <font color="Blue">talk 14:52, 14 September 2007 (UTC)PS: Businesses like Google etc seem to be covered by Internet culture, and it might be nice to maintain a slightly more technical and organizational scope here.
 * Category:Generic top-level domains & Category:CENTR members probably need in. Is it normal to use bots to populate initially? Between those and Category:Internet standards & their daughter cats, that's already several hundred articles that fall under our purview but not many other technically focused groups. <font color="Blue">MrZaius <font color="Blue">talk 15:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles
Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the 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 20:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * List of basic Internet topics
 * List of basic telecommunication topics
 * List of basic computer science topics
 * List of basic information technology topics

Navigational box
There is good information in the articles on the Internet, World Wide Web, and in related articles. Hard to peruse them all or understand what is there. I suggest that a navigational box is needed, but how to order (classify articles) it and what articles to include (and, much worse, not include!) is a real problem. Right now, a naive researcher (me, except I was trained in the industry) has to blunder about a lot of links, and see alsos to find information. Student7 (talk) 13:34, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Request for people who have copies of any of the following publications.

 * Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
 * Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Aspray, William. Computer: A History of the Information Machine. New York: BasicBooks, 1996.
 * Graham, Ian S. The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
 * Krol, Ed. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, 1987.
 * Krol, Ed. Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
 * Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991.

These texts were used as references in the creation of the History of the Internet article. However, they were added to the article at a time when there was no accepted system of inline citation, and there is no link between the references and what they are cited to support. This leaves some parts of the article apparently uncited, but supposedly supported by these texts.

Can someone with these texts please read over the article, and identify the sections and statements that are supported by these texts.

Thanks in advance. --Barberio (talk) 20:43, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions for Guidelines

 * move general tasks from To-do list box into Guidelines as bullet points --AlastairIrvine (talk) 07:34, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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Link relations
I renamed the old Rel attribute article to Link relations and expanded it substantially. Needs some more work but its not entirely content free now... and expansion appreciated.. Justinc (talk) 17:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

LastPass
This article was tagged for speedy deletion as spam, but since it gets a 5-star rating on Firefox's add-on list with 77 ratings, I wasn't willing to speedy it without further discussion. What do you guys think, is this an article you want in Wikipedia? - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 18:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not, although it needs a rewrite. ff m  22:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The 5 star rating only makes this article an advertisement for a GOOD product, but an advertisement stays an advertisement.--173.220.9.188 (talk) 02:31, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Noindex, questions about
Is the noindex tag required in userpage sandboxes?
 * Does the noindex tag really prevent Internet search engines from finding content in userpage sandboxes?
 * How many of your personal userpage sandboxes include the noindex tag? -- Kenatipo   speak! 21:46, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this isn't the best place. Try Wikipedia talk:About the Sandbox or Help desk. --Pnm (talk) 05:19, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Pnm. I will go there and ask.  I came here because this place came up in my search.  -- Kenatipo   speak! 06:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Article needing improvement: Metacrap
I stumbled upon metacrap the other day. This article badly needs improvement. The term apparently originates from Cory Doctorow's 2001 essay. The article itself has exactly one citation (to the essay itself, violating the independent clause of WP:RS and maybe WP:SPS), two inbound links (one from the Cory Doctorow article) and a template plopped onto it since 2007. I was almost going to submit it for AfD, but it seems that while the term has not reached popular usage there are at least multiple references to the term and essay by independent sources. I'm not sure if that's enough to pass WP:GNG, but I figured if anyone feels that strongly about it they can submit it for AfD themselves. With all due respect to, abstract self-referential 'meta' topics are not my forte. Given how stale the article is (revision statistics), I figured this might point some interested people to it and perhaps serve as a shot of epinephrine to restart its barely-beating heart. <font color='#CC0000'>Dubious <font color='#333333'>Irony  <font color='FF6600'>yell 14:18, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Interactive tutorial help
Hi, I'm working on a project for an interactive tutorial for new editors and we're trying to mock-up the first units/levels (http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi/The_Wikipedia_Game). I need a few good images of the Wikipedia interface, and some dialogue boxes and basic interface shots for the alpha version which will be done in Adobe Flash. Does anyone have basic photoshop skills and a few hours? Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, User:Ocaasic 00:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I've created an article on Lulz Security
Lulz Security has been in the news so I created an article about them. It is currently up for speedy delete. I would love input on the article, and help if you think the topic is worth pursuing. Polyquest (talk) 00:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No longer under speedy delete.Polyquest (talk) 00:53, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Deep Web
Deep Web has been requested to be renamed, see Talk:Deep Web. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 10:20, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

What is "cyberethics"?
The lead to cyberethics didn't define the subject, so I rewrote it. It's better than it was, but it still seems a bit off. Something's lacking. Please take a look. The Transhumanist 06:48, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Country codes licensed for commercial use
I'm querying whether the list of country codes licensed for commercial use should be in a subsection of Country code top-level domain, as it is now, or on a separate page. Please see the discussion topic on the relevant talk page and please add any comments there, not here. Thanks. Rubywine (talk) 18:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Further to this, if anyone is able to cast some light on the latest point raised in the discussion linked above, I would be grateful for your input. Apparently I have created an article with a misleading title, but the title that I should have used instead has not been made clear. Rubywine (talk) 02:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Archive Created
I moved most of the inactive discussion threads older than one year to /Archive 1, and added the archive box to the top of this page. Hopefully, this will help us keep this page fresh and more manageable for new team members. Please re-activate any archived discussion threads here as a new topic if you are interested in forwarding development of its related topic. Hcidem (talk) 15:19, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

please help with Stop Online Piracy Act page
Issues include but are not necessarily limited to:


 * DMCA provisions keep getting removed as irrelevant
 * no discussion of conflict with DNSSEC implementation
 * DNS discussion incomplete, help with propagation requested
 * article possibly should include discussion of ICANN/IANA control of internet

Elinruby (talk) 03:40, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Internet category is cycled
Hi. Take part in this discussion please Category talk:Internet. ~ Нирваньчик ~ ⊤άλҟ 21:30, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Opinions and help requested for article
Hi

There seems to be a stalemate in discussion (and possible COI issues) with the Tagged social media article. Any advice, contributions or general help from project internet editors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks NCSS (talk) 04:38, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Web Storage capitalization
Hi everyone, I recently moved Web Storage (capitalized) to Web storage (lower case), thinking it was a generic name of a software concept, but I got a message from MilkMiruku who thinks it is a proper name belonging to the W3C. Did I just make an embarrassing mistake with my move? I'd like to hear the opinions of editors here. Thanks — <b style="text-shadow:0.15em 0.15em 0.1em #555; color: #194D00; font-style: oblique; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif"> Mr. Stradivarius ♫</b> 06:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Source on internet and social skills
Hey guys! See: WhisperToMe (talk) 04:00, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Milian, Mark. "Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills." CNN. Wednesday January 25, 2012.

Internet Barnstar
I have designed a Internet Barnstar, would you guys be interested in this? Kusaga (talk) 22:09, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that the barnstar is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards. Would you like to use this as a Project Barnstar? <b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b>talk 07:37, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

It's done, feel free to use it. Template:Internet barnstar. -- extra 999 ( talk )  14:51, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Need comment on e-mail ticketing system
Please comment on Email ticketing system and the article's future. Comment at Talk:Email ticketing system. Thanks, D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  01:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Digital Identity
Hi everyone. I am aiming to improve the Digital Identity article, I think there are serious issues with the content in general terms, doesn't cover the wide range of meanings and studies related to the term, but I haven't found anyone who is more experienced with wikipedia or within social sciences to help me out. I would be doing an extensive scholarly research on the topic due to an educational assignment. I didn't get a response on the talk pages of the article and I would need experienced users to point me in the right direction, because the problems can't be solved with minor edits. It has been suggested by several people that the article might need a complete rewrite, since it is too technical and its focus is too narrow. Could you point me in the right direction? Bettinusz (talk) 10:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

I rewrote a few significant parts of the Digital identity article, I think it was hard to understand, overcomplicated. If you could give me some feedback on the writing, style, anything that would be great. I also added a few extra sections, because the article was only focusing on technical aspects, I thought that was too narrow for the subject. I will try and add some sociological perspectives as well. Thanks, Bettinusz (talk) 22:21, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Regulatory Differences for Internet connections
I was looking for information on the regulatory differences between a fixed or non-fixed wireline connection vs a celluar/ mobile connection after reading | The New Digital Divide but I couldn't find anything anywhere. Do folks in this WikiProject know about this kind of thing? Am I overlooking an article? Thanks!Jriggsy (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
Please, help me to expand and improve the article. Thank you! --NaBUru38 (talk) 17:35, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge input needed - Push email
Should Mobile email and Wireless email merge into Push email? Please comment at Talk:Push email. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  04:14, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Firefox article needs repair!
Hello WikiProject Internet! The Firefox article is really outdated and in need of repair. It would be great if we could put together a team to help maintain it - or at least bring it up to date. Thanks  ҭᴙᴇᴡ ӌӌ   15:14, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Second Look
Can I get someone to get a second look on the draft that I am writing here? I have more sources about the group mainly about their match with the creater of minecraft whom it mentions one of their members by name. -- SKATER  Is Back 14:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Globalization
The article Globalization has undergone major re-structuring. WikiProject Internet members are invited to review and comment on the article and add relevant missing information or sections in which your project may have an interest. Also, you may be interested in reviewing the updated WikiProject Council/Proposals/Globalization proposal for a new WikiProject. Regards, Meclee (talk) 15:08, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

I would like to bring your attention to this forum
Hey, guys. I hope I've come to the right place to discuss a possible HTML5 version of Wikipedia, given that most project members have background about this stuff.

As some users may know, HTML5 is a new version of the HyperText Markup Language designed with the DOM, AJAX, and competition with Adobe Flash in mind. Each time the development team has attempted to introduce HTML5 to the MediaWiki software, it broke several scripts and bots, so they dropped those changes. For more information about the HTML5 revolution, click here. To test whether your browser is compatible with HTML5, click here.

Here are some main points from the main discussion at WP Village Dump:
 * Wikipedia pages should be divided into semantic elements that a regular viewer wouldn't care about, but that would make processing by AI simpler. Examples of such tags include  (for the body of an article),   (for navigation elements and category links), and   (for sections of Wikipedia articles).
 * Inline MathML could be used rather than PNG to display equations and formulae in articles, in order to save bandwidth and allow easier processing. For example, MathML equations could be copied and pasted into documents, in whole and in part, much more easily than PNG equations.
 * Editors should be encouraged to use appropriate tags for emphasis, instead of just bold or italic. This is a W3C recommendation and, while not necessary, could be used to improve the machine-readability of featured articles. (Not everyone agreed to this, but it's worth discussing.)

There are also a few things I haven't discussed yet, such as Microdata and WYSIWYG editing. '''Any other ideas? Seriously, don't hesitate to propose or discuss them!''' 68.173.113.106 (talk) 21:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Does Khaled Mardam-Bey desrve his own article?
Please participate in the following merge discussion. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 06:11, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Relative units in the context of responsive web design
There is currently a disagreement at Talk:Responsive web design which members of this WikiProject may be interested in.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:42, 25 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Three people have told the IP that pixels are absolute units, and presented references such as W3C and the UN, but the IP keeps reverting to "pixels are relative units". The IP is also continuously adding other opinionated rubbish (the worst examples are listed in the talk page) that is/are (naturally) not supported by any references. When asked to provide reputable references that support his opinions he links to his own blog :-( LittleBen (talk) 12:47, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Yahoo! Meme
I have edited the Yahoo! Meme page and expanded upon it greatly. Please discuss.

Followmarko (talk) 21:24, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Is Prince a layout engine?
Hi! I suspected that the Prince/Prince XML addition to Template:Layout engine nomenclature was some kind of illicit marketing, since it is not used in any web browser, but instead some kind of expensive proprietary web-to-PDF converter. Now I wonder if the place of Prince XML in List of web browser engines is also unjustified, and mayhap also Template:Web browser engines? Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 19:03, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Bufferbloat
Hi wikiproject, Bufferbloat is a fairly hot subject, and I would love it to have a decent article about it. What we currently have falls shy of WP:Brilliant prose. I can't really fix it myself at the moment. Things are a bit too technical for me to completely work out. I did some copyediting and tagging of dubious and unsourced statements, but I could use some more hands on it. What I would like in particular for now is to inline source all unsourced information, and to remove all false information. When that's fixed, we probably need to re-section, possibly expand and prune where needed. All help is welcome. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:03, 7 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I reworked the article, splitting into sections (which might need more eyeballs), refs, exts, links etc etc and using the ACM ref more. I tagged some weaknesses at the top of the article. Widefox (talk) 17:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * If you have specific questions about bufferbloat, please drop me a line. The article certainly needs serious work, and there has been a lot of progress since the last time people worked on the article.  Unfortunately, I don't have time to try to fix the article myself. JimGettys (talk) 01:25, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Freedom of speech = New WikiProject
Hi there, I'm notifying this WikiProject due to its relevance to Freedom of speech. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do: Thank you for your interest in Freedom of speech, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech
 * 1) List yourself as a participant in the WikiProject, by adding your username here: WikiProject_Freedom_of_speech.
 * 2) Add userbox User Freedom of speech to your userpage, which lists you as a member of the WikiProject.
 * 3) Tag relevant talk pages of articles and other relevant pages using WikiProject Freedom of speech.
 * 4) Join in discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Freedom of speech.
 * 5) Notify others you think might be interested in Freedom of speech to join the WikiProject.

Request for comments: Establish standards for version history tables in software articles
I'd like to introduce the Template:Version template to Wikipedia with the goal to establish one standard for version history tables (or lists). It simplifies creation of release histories, standardizes release stages and makes the content more accessible.

Please comment on the template talk page (there already is some discussion). Thanks for your contribution. --Jesus Presley (talk) 02:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Internet Top Level Country Domains
There is an ongoing debate on the Northern Ireland Talk Page about what Top Level country domains should be listed. At present the infobox lists .uk, .ie and .eu, but this is disputed. The infobox also has a note saying ".uk is assigned to the United Kingdom of which Northern Ireland is a part, .ie is assigned to Ireland of which Northern Ireland is a part, and .eu is assigned to the European Union of which Northern Ireland is a part. ISO 3166-1 is GB, but .gb is unused"

I would like to ask if anyone has any knowledge of matters relating to Internet top level country domains and if they could please add their insights to the ongoing discussion. Myself and a few others believe it is inappropriate to claim that .ie is Northern Irelands internet domain, because .ie was assigned to a different country (the Republic of Ireland), whilst others say it was assigned to the whole island and point to the fact that the organisation that runs the domain, does welcome people from Northern Ireland to purchase domains too.

Any additional input on the talk page is most welcome. Thank you BritishWatcher (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Project headers missing
I just noticed that Web analytics is in Template:Internet marketing but the talk page has zero projects. I don't know how active this project is so feel free to post in a more active related project.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Apps Proposal
A proposal for a WikiProject Apps has been made at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Apps. As WikiProject Internet is a related WikiProject, members of this WikiProject are invited to join the discussion. Thank you. XapApp (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds awesome thanks!Synergee (talk) 03:07, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Don't reformat your entry in Participants section
I think people should refrain from including font and other formatting tags when adding their names to the participants section. Or at least make sure they don't carry over subsequent entries. The fancy formatting User:Tellez Sr used broke the system so badly I couldn't figure out how to add my name after his, so I undid his formatting to prevent it from causing the same problem for other new participants. Joeldbenson (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

WorldBet
Could members of this WikiProject please comment on the notability and sourcing for WorldBet, a proposed ASCII encoding of the International Phonetic Alphabet? Discussion is at Talk:WorldBet. Cnilep (talk) 09:00, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Earliest filed invention disclosure for a structured markup-based hypermedia browser?
Maybe not of any consequence whatsoever, but are there any earlier published patents or filed invention disclosures in the US Patent Office earlier than (PO891-0201) that describes a hypertext/hypermedia browser that was based specifically on structured markup language? There were a multitude of related efforts going on in that era with stand-alone hypertext readers, but there doesn't appear to be any others that were filed earlier based (quite specifically) on structured markup (application of GML/SGML). The referenced filing was made to gain 'publish' status, the decision to file for publish status over a patent was an intentional decision at the time as a 'just in case' to ensure public use. The actual disclosure date preceded the public appearance of Mosaic and HTML by about a year. Though from private industry and not from academia, it can't be determined what if impact it had, if any, but the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins were widely distributed and read worldwide in that era as one of the leading professional industry journals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeIantosca (talk • contribs) 19:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed revision to Template:Infobox_television_channel
Hi there, I've posted a suggestion on the Infobox television channel template Talk page and I'm looking for other editors to weigh in. I'm proposing updating the infobox to create a "Streaming media" parameter to link to a network's online media website; I suggest putting this in the infobox in place of the underused "Internet television" parameter. Please take a look if you're interested! Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:00, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Dutch government analysis on terrorism on the internet
I found
 * The home page for "Jihadism on the web, a breeding ground for jihad in the modern age." (Archive) by the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands
 * Document: https://www.aivd.nl/publish/pages/2402/het_jihadistisch_internet_eng.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6HcjpUQp9
 * Summary: https://www.aivd.nl/publish/pages/2402/samenvatting_jihadistisch_internet_eng.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6HcjnnDBX

As stated in the following Bloomberg article, this report discusses the "dark net" that many terrorists use WhisperToMe (talk) 21:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Bershidsky, Leonid. "U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists." (Archive) Bloomberg. June 23, 2013.

WikiProject Websites support
Does anyone know why WikiProject Websites is "supported by" WikiProject Computing? Websites don't seem to be a particularly technical topic. It seems like if WikiProject Websites is to be a sub-project of someone, WikiProject Internet would be a better candidate. Please post your thoughts on the WikiProject Computing talk page. ~KvnG 20:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Unreadable
I just tried to read one of the WikiProject Internet pages. It is unreadable. It is all jargon, and there are no examples. Hey guys, computer science has existed for about 50 years now. Documentation is supposed to be more informative than code. And remember the examples. Jfgrcar (talk) 04:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

RfC concerning the Lavabit email service
There is a request for comments (RfC) that may be of interest. The RfC is at

Talk:Lavabit

At issue is whether we should delete or keep the following text in the Lavabit article:


 * Before the Snowden incident, Lavabit had complied with previous search warrants. For example, on June 10, 2013, a search warrant was executed against Lavabit user Joey006@lavabit.com for alleged possession of child pornography.

Your input on this question would be very much welcome. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:06, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Human flesh search engine needs to be globalized
The article at Human flesh search engine really needs to be globalized. The article essentially describes what is known as "doxxing", however focuses entirely on Chinese examples. The topic is notable, but hardly warrants an article dedicated to China and nothing else. I think the article should be renamed, and the content completely revamped to represent a more worldwide view of the subject, reliable sources willing. -- benlisquare T•C•E 13:40, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

HTTP status code articles
Please join the discussion at Talk:HTTP 404, which may also have implications for related articles, such as HTTP 403. <font face="Frankenstein SF, Luftwaffe, Fraktur, Old English Text MT">Wilhelm Meis <font face="Helvetica">(&#9742; Diskuss &#124; &#x270D; Beiträge) 04:16, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Help with a solution?
Hey, I've got a question: I moved an article into a user's userspace. It was about Keep.com, which had some issues with establishing notability outside of AdKeeper. The sources were pretty much all about AdKeeper. The website was sort of originally AK, but not entirely. Keep.com is pretty much a new rendition of the idea/concept of the website, although the original URL for AK does redirect to the company's website where K.C is listed along with another website. I'm not arguing the notability for AK, but I don't know exactly how to progress with K.C. There's some coverage, but much of it is sort of trivial in tone. I thought that maybe it'd be a good alternative to create a page for the company as a whole and list the company's products/websites. We could link to the AdKeeper website and have some information about the other websites/products the company provides. Would that be a good solution here? The trouble factor is that we don't have a huge amount of coverage for the company and the lion's share of coverage would be coming from the article for AK. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   14:37, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Centralization and redecentralization of the Internet
A new section I've added to the general (ie. not just tech) Decentralization article, Centralization and redecentralization of the Internet, seems like it might be within the scope of this WikiProject, or if not, simply of interest to the project's members. Am I OK to add a WikiProject banner to the article's talk page? I'm keen to expand the section in future too, so any edits also appreciated :-) Thanks. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 11:35, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to help craft a proposal
Surveillance awareness day is a proposal for the English Wikipedia to take special steps to promote awareness of global surveillance on February 11, 2014. That date is chosen to coincide with similar actions being taken by organizations such as Mozilla, Reddit, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Feedback from members of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. Please come join us as we brainstorm, polish, and present this proposal to the Wikipedia Community. --HectorMoffet (talk) 11:24, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz deletion discussion notice
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
 * 1) Adrianne Wadewitz
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz

The discussion is at Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.

For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Articles for deletion and Notability.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Archived some threads
I've archived some threads that were notices of discussions which have since been closed.

Cheers,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:49, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Process Driven Messaging Service. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:01, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Deterministic Ethernet
Dear Internet experts: Here's an old abandoned Afc submission that will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be kept and improved instead? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 18:16, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Thaivisa
Dear Internet experts: Here's another old Afc submission about to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic that should be kept and improved instead? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 02:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for Wiki Education Foundation

 * 1) Wiki Education Foundation
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation

There is a deletion discussion ongoing for article Wiki Education Foundation.

Discussion page is at Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:30, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/.archi (dot archi)
Dear internet experts: Is it appropriate for this domain name to have its own article? If so, is this old Afc draft a good start? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 14:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

..and there's also Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/.ski (dot ski) by Starting Dot. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 14:03, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review

 * 1) Adrianne Wadewitz
 * 2) Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1

I've nominated the article Adrianne Wadewitz for Peer review.

Discussion is at the peer review subpage, at Peer review/Adrianne Wadewitz/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:02, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Internet invitation template
Hello everyone, I'm Anup, most recent participant of the project. I hereby propose creation of WP Internet invitation template. I've created few in my userspace (User:Anupmehra/WPIIT) and looking forward to get input from already registered participants of the project. Regards, Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  08:08, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Talk:United States
All input welcome. /Cheers <sup style="color:green;">walk <i style="color:green;">victor falk</i><i style="color:green;">talk</i> 03:24, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Smart Cloud
Dear Internet experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. If this is a notable topic (and it is certainly a term that is being widely bandied about), should this page be kept and improved instead? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:05, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Mass creation of Top-level domain pages
A user,, has been creating a vast number of pages about new Top-level domains, such as .email, .blue, .ninja, .gift, and .dating. I thought someone familiar with the subject might want to take a look at it. G S Palmer (talk) 01:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Palmer! I think that everything is okay here. There are new Top level domains in the internet, see for example .wiki http://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/wiki/ --Kirov Airship (talk) 01:20, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Nothing is ok! The TLCs exist see http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db, but pricing informations are not wanted inside Wikipedia. So please remove them. --Kgfleischmann (talk) 04:52, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll remove the pricing information. --Kirov Airship (talk) 15:47, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see how any of them is individually notable, meriting it's own article. —Largo Plazo (talk) 01:43, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of List of works about Julian Assange for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of works about Julian Assange is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of works about Julian Assange until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. XOttawahitech (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boxxy (2nd nomination)
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/Boxxy (2nd nomination). Thanks. Tutelary (talk) 00:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Internet At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 11:24, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Kleargear AFD deletion discussion notice

 * 1) Kleargear
 * 2) Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination)

Discussion about whether or not to delete article for Kleargear, discussion at Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination). &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/AADS (IXP)
Dear Internet experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable topic? Or should it be deleted as a stale draft? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 19:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:17, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

European Sleep Apnea Database deletion discussion
European Sleep Apnea Database is undergoing a deletion discussion, AFD page at Articles for deletion/European Sleep Apnea Database. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:50, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * European Sleep Apnea Database

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Echo (Cloud Services)
Dear internet experts: Are the sources in this old AfC submission reliable? Should it be accepted? (If so, the format can be fixed later.) &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 16:42, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for Internet meme
Please see Articles for deletion/Fuck her right in the pussy. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

R U Professional peer review
I've started a peer review for the WP:GA quality article, R U Professional.

Comments to help further improve quality would be appreciated, at Peer review/R U Professional/archive1.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a TFA nomination
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:48, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

New article on viral video - From The Doctor to my son Thomas
I've created a new article on viral video From The Doctor to my son Thomas.
 * From The Doctor to my son Thomas

Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:From The Doctor to my son Thomas.

Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:18, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech help required to improve categories
Please see Village pump (policy) and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 23:47, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

New article on webcomic Bucko
I've created a new article on webcomic Bucko.
 * Bucko

Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Bucko.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:18, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Bill Cosby 77
I've created an article about the stand-up comedy film, Bill Cosby 77.
 * Bill Cosby 77

Feel free to help out with expansion from secondary sources, or engage in collaboration at Talk:Bill Cosby 77.

Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:08, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

GA article discussion about Quote boxes
WP:GA article From The Doctor to my son Thomas had a couple quote boxes at time of promotion to GA quality.

Now there's a discussion about use of those quote boxes.

Please see discussion, at Talk:From_The_Doctor_to_my_son_Thomas.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Question
want kind of help I may aspect from here's discussion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmedzamanirabwah (talk • contribs) 09:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Vivaldi (web browser)


The article Vivaldi (web browser) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This browser is quite far from being a released product. All we have so far is a "second preview" of a prototype. Neither in the literature there is any evidence of strong expectations by the internet communities about this software. Considering also that the very first versions of this article looked like a "copy-paste" from the manifacturer's website, the subject doesn't appear to have yet enough noticeability (and Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a "teaser" for future softwares whose first release date is yet totally unknown and unpredictable.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. L736E (talk) 10:39, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Streisand effect category deletion discussion

 * Category:Streisand effect
 * 1) Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_12

Category:Streisand effect has been nominated for deletion, the discussion is at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_12.

Feel free to participate there.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:11, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

About Net Neutrality
Hello all, I would appreciate it if you could take a look at Net Neutrality and see if the article is neutral to Wikipedia standards. Is there WP:UNDUE weight placed on either side of the arguments for/against net neutrality? Should the two sides be equally represented, or is one of them the majority view and the other only a minority view?

Thank you, <b style="color:#28589C">Tony Tan</b><sup  style="color:#4775FF">98  ·  talk  21:23, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Extremely Decent deletion discussion about Canada sketch comedy group
Please see Articles for deletion/Extremely Decent for deletion discussion about Extremely Decent, Canada sketch comedy group.
 * Articles for deletion/Extremely Decent

Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:49, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Help needed on Internet censorship and surveillance by country article
Some of the main sources summarized in the Internet censorship and surveillance by country article are no longer being updated. A discussion on the article's talk page has been started to develop a plan for how to deal with this on into the future. I would encourage anyone with an interest to join the discussion. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 14:39, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

AfD might be within your scope
Hi guys. Got an AfD that I wasn't entirely sure if it was within your scope or not, it's essentially an article about website reputation review sites.

Article here: Website reputation ratings

AfD here: WP:Articles for deletion/Website reputation ratings ― Padenton &#124;&#9993;  21:13, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Open Web Alliance - is this a notable topic?
Dear internet experts: This old AfC submission is about to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this something that should be kept and improved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 14:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

AFC entry
Any thoughts re Draft:180fusion? Looks possibly notable to me, but borderline. I'm inclined to approve but stick on a notability tag, but defer to those with more expertise. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:56, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Needs a look
I was reverting vandalism on the article Digital privacy and I'm not sure I got it right. Can someone from this project take a look since I don't have any expertise in this area. I also applied an assessment template on the talk, pretending to know what I was doing so you will need to see if I did that correctly, too.
 * <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;background:#E6E6FA;border:solid 1px;border-radius:7px;box-shadow:darkgray 0px 3px 3px;"> Bfpage &#124;leave a message 00:24, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride! Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!
 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page. Thanks, and happy editing! User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

YouTube Wikiproject Proposal
I have just proposed a YouTube Wikiproject that would cover any Articles relevant to YouTube People, Culture, Organisations and Business

I would love to get lots of support for this --- :D Derry Adama (talk)

Relevant AfD
Hello there! Care to comment at Articles for deletion/Netatmo? Best, FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  14:41, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Created new article on the Free Speech Flag
I've created a new article on the Free Speech Flag.

If anyone's got ideas for possible additional sources, comments are welcome, at Talk:Free Speech Flag.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:38, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Free Speech Flag for Featured Picture
I've nominated the Free Speech Flag for Featured Picture.

Discussion is at Featured picture candidates/Free Speech Flag.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:25, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of NewsBank for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article NewsBank is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/NewsBank until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:23, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Implement an Internet forum Navbox
Hello all,

This talk page seemed the best place to propose my suggestion so here goes. I have been thinking about Internet forum related articles and have come to the conclusion that it may be a good idea to implement a navbox to link articles together to aid the reader with browsing the articles.

This navbox would include groups for software (with subgroups of free and open-source and proprietary software populated from Comparison of Internet forum software) and hosting, in addition, a below section with links to Bulletin board system, Textboard, Imageboard and List of Internet forums.

In practise, it will look similar to this transclusion from my draft, subject to any improvements (such as using a group named "other" rather than a below section):

As this would be quite a large implementation with many articles being edited to add the navbox I thought it would be best to seek a consensus before going ahead. So please add your comments here on whether this would be beneficial. — Jordan Mussi Talk 13:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

RfC for naming conventions of online "TV" series
Hello, all. I recently started an RfC that might be of interest to this WikiProject. It is to help determine whether articles like Jessica Jones (TV series) or Daredevil (TV series) are using a proper disambiguator since they technically don't air on TV, but rather get streamed online. Please feel free to join the discussion. Thanks. Raykyogrou0 ( Talk ) 13:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Dark Web and Dark Web
Dear Internet experts: This draft has a lot of information and some sources that are not in the mainspace article. Should some of this be used to expand the main article? If so, can someone from this project please do so, while crediting Chrislinder in the edit summary? I can handle the attribution tags afterwards if necessary. If there isn't anything useful, please let me know, so that I can delete the draft (please don't edit it.) Thanks &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 19:11, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

INWG history including INWG 39, consensus to base Internet on INWG 96, etc
The History of the Internet article should include the work of the International Packet Network Working Group (INWG). It should include the 1975 consensus to use the INWG 96 protocol by Vint Cerf, Roger Scantlebury, Hubert Zimmermann, and Alex McKenzie, that resulted from "Pouzin and Cerf issued INWG 85 calling for a vote by mail on an End-To-End Protocol to be forwarded to standards bodies.". Then cover the subsequent move by Kahn and DARPA to base the Internet on the older INWG 39, which had been part of the basis for INWG 96.

There should also be an article about the International Packet Network Working Group (INWG series). That seems to be harder because they don't seem to be online (maybe a reason for their lack of influence?)

And an article about Alex McKenzie (cf Alexander Anderson McKenzie, Draft: Alex McKenzie) could be based on User:W_Nowicki/Sandbox4.

For a start, see, and The Internet's First Turning Point - High Tech Forum ★NealMcB★ (talk) 13:04, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

RfC - The Pirate Bay
You are invited to participate in the RfC at Talk:The Pirate Bay. This RfC, which asks "Should all of the urls for this website be included in the infobox?", is due to end in approximately 19 days time and would really benefit from some fresh eyes. Thank you. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 09:37, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

"Deep Web"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:Dark Web -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 05:16, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Outlook-related edits by User:Ians18
Greetings, everyone. Our fellow Wikipedian User:Ians18 has engaged in a number of edits that I find highly controversial; they are being discussed in. I believe we need additional input. A summary of the dispute is as follows:

Traditionally, both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App / Outlook on the web had four modules: Mail, Calendar, Contacts (or People) and Tasks. But Ians18 changed the names of Outlook.com, Calendar (Microsoft service) and People (Microsoft service) into Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar and Outlook People and merged Outlook Web App into Outlook.com. He initially said that they are actually renamed, but now has retreated to the position of "their rename is announced and will definitely happen". I, however, cannot see any of these and believe he has taken too much for granted, is sailing too close to WP:CRYSTAL, and his point of view is badly influenced by being an Office 365 user.

Additional input is welcome. Fleet Command (talk) 12:10, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Websites that are considered reliable sources
Something that has been bothering me for a while now is that it can be hard to figure out whether certain websites are considered reliable sources. Some pages can help with this a lot, such as WP:VG/S, which I use a lot. Such lists cannot list all possible websites, and they tend to be limited to a specific field (video gaming in the example given). Often the first place I go to figure out whether an unlisted website might be reliable is its Wikipedia article, but this rarely helps at all. I was wondering what the possibilities are for noting the reliability of a website on its own talk page. Has this ever been considered before? I'm not talking about a complicated explanation on each talk page, but a short template saying "is usually reliable," "may or may not be reliable" or "is not reliable" could help a lot. What are your thoughts on this idea? ~ Mable ( chat ) 19:40, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

From The Doctor to my son Thomas - featured article candidate
I've nominated the article about the video From The Doctor to my son Thomas for Featured Article consideration.

The article is about a message sent from actor Peter Capaldi in-character in his role as the Doctor on Doctor Who, to console an autistic young boy over grief from the death of his grandmother.

Comments would be appreciated, at Featured article candidates/From The Doctor to my son Thomas/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of The Signpost (Wikipedia) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Signpost (Wikipedia) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The Signpost (Wikipedia) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:07, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Deletion to Quality Award
I've created the WP:Deletion to Quality Award.

This recognizes editors who've taken a page previously considered for deletion &mdash; to Featured Article or Good Article quality.

The award is inspired by the Million Award, the Article Rescue Squadron, and the WikiProject Quality Article Improvement.

Please see Deletion to Quality Award.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:35, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Smart DNS proxy server
The Smart DNS proxy server article is in quite a poor state: repetitious, poorly structured, and, worst of all, completely unsourced. It's also getting some attention on the NANOG mailing list at the moment, but no-one there seems to be sufficiently motivated to improve it. Can anyone here help? -- The Anome (talk) 20:03, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

What about the email?
Hi all, I recently joined this WikiProject, and notice that I'm the only participant mentioning email among the areas of interest. Anyone else?

Many articles in Category:Email don't seem to belong to the project. Why? Many of them use template spamming, which is tagged WikiProject Internet culture, although their content is rather technical. Is it all-right to add assessments to most of those pages? BTW, have no idea about how to assess an article's quality non-subjectively. Should one use  as a default?

In particular, the suite of articles Email filtering, Anti-spam techniques (users), Anti-spam techniques, and Email Authentication are an attempt at explaining filtering. (There are still missing concepts, like analysing  by mixed heuristic and machine-learning approaches, and trade-offs between sender's privacy and receiver's security...)  Someone wrote (please see the relevant talk pages):
 * Between them, they should be able to clearly answer questions ranging from "why do some valid emails never reach me?" to "how much work do ISP mail servers have to put into spam vs genuine emails" and even: "do laws (or anything else) influence anti-spam software's balancing of false positives vs false negatives?"

Do we agree?

Each of those articles is bound to boil down to a list of methods, possibly except the first. Then there is a nasty loop of Main: Email filtering&lt;-&gt;Anti-spam techniques, which should be removed. But how should those articles relate to one another?

ale (talk) 12:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Merging GoToMyPC and GoToMyPC Pro
Hi. I'd like to invite editors to join the discussion about whether to merge the GoToMyPC and GoToMyPC Pro articles, which are nearly identical in content. The GoToMyPC entry falls under the scope of this Wikiproject, so I wanted to bring it to the attention of editors here. As a disclosure, I have a financial conflict of interest and I am making this request on behalf of Citrix Systems, the maker of GoToMyPC. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 16:29, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to note that this request has been taken care of. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Moving Deep web (search) -> Deep web
Hello, I would like to get more input on a move I requested: Deep web (search) -> Deep web. TvojaStara (talk) 20:56, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Reputation management
Just an FYI that this article was used for a school assignment last semester, needs cleanup. valereee (talk) 16:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Help with ShareFile?
Hello! I recently proposed a new draft for the ShareFile article on the entry's Talk page. I'm hoping other editors might be willing to review my work. As I've stated here previously, I am working on behalf of Citrix Systems to make suggestions to improve the ShareFile article. I will not edit the article myself because of my financial COI. I'd appreciate it if others could let me know their thoughts on my draft and, if it appears to be an improvement, move it over to the live article. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 21:30, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * This is done. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 14:35, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Help with GoToMyPC?
Hello. I'm back to point editors to the GoToMyPC Talk page, another Citrix-related article that I have been working on. I proposed a new draft earlier this week that I'd like other editors to review. The article falls under the scope of this project, so I thought editors here might be interested in taking a look. As stated before, I am working as a paid consultant on behalf of Citrix Systems as part of my work with Beutler Ink. I will not edit the article directly because of my COI and will only participate in Talk page discussions. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This request is now closed. Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 16:42, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Current existence of InterNIC
Does anyone know about InterNIC? Please go to the discussion at Talk:InterNIC --Quest for Truth (talk) 17:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:International League Hall of Fame inductees has been nominated for discussion
Category:International League Hall of Fame inductees, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for Merging. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.RevelationDirect (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

AfD: Timeline of popular Internet services
There is a deletion discussion about Timeline of popular Internet services, please have a look. Your help might also be needed in establishing inclusion criteria for that article once the deletion discussion has been closed. --Fixuture (talk) 19:01, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources
See
 * Village pump (proposals)
 * Village pump (proposals)

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:51, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Request for Endurance International Group article
Hi, I'm Melanie and I'm here on behalf of my employer, Endurance International Group, to propose updates to the company's Wikipedia article. I am hoping to find a volunteer editor to review a proposed draft and make sure that it complies with guidelines. I described my goals in more detail here, and will refrain from editing the article directly because of my conflict of interest. Is there some who can help implement changes appropriately? I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for considering. Melanie from Endurance (talk) 15:46, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I have reviewed the list of WikiProject Internet participants, but noticed that many have not many edits to Wikipedia in years. You four continue to contribute to Wikipedia, so I wonder if one of you may be willing to take a look at the edit request I posted on the Endurance International Group article's talk page? Thanks for your consideration. Melanie from Endurance (talk) 18:46, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Article request: .eco
Hi fellow Wikipedians! ICANN approved the request in 2014 (and domains are starting to go online with the ending) for Big Room Inc. to take over the .eco domain ending (full report for IANA can be accessed here). Currently, .eco serves as a redirect to the ecology article.


 * .eco official website
 * News Article from CBC News
 * News Article from The Guardian

Help from the WikiProject Internet community would be appreciated to create the article.

Daylen (talk) 06:23, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

active users?
Hi all,

I've recently checked into the list of Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet/Participants.

Could this list be improved by stating which members are currently active or inactive or haven't made a contribution in quite some time.

FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 19:25, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Gathering resources for new article
Hi everybody, first and foremost I have a paid COI to create an article on the industrial internet of things. I know this WikiProject isn't super active, but I was hoping someone here might be able to offer some insight into or assist me with gathering resources to create a new article on the IIoT. The current Internet of things article is a decent jumping-off point, but as it's a bit of a hodgepodge, I thought it'd be helpful to create a dedicated article on the industrial internet of things as it develops. Is anyone free to help me research and create a neutral article?--FacultiesIntact (talk) 07:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Fake news website - move discussion
Article is Fake news website.


 * Requested move discussion at: Talk:Fake_news_website. Sagecandor (talk) 13:11, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

New Wikileaking organization
Check out the new article on MormonWikiLeaks.

Sagecandor (talk) 05:40, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiJournal of Science promotion
T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 10:38, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

New User Seeking Approval to Add Content and Reference to Defining Section
Hello I am requesting approval for content that I just recently added on the Responsive Web Design Page. I will include the added content here:

In addition it's important to understand that Responsive Web Design tasks include offering the same support to a variety of devices for a single website. As mentioned by the Nielsen Norman Group: content, design and performance are necessary across all devices to ensure usability and satisfaction.

Here is my source in proper MLA Format:

^ [Schade, Amy. "Responsive Web Design (RWD) and User Experience." Responsive Web Design (RWD) and User Experience. Nielson Norman Group, 04 May 2014. Web. 02 Mar. 2017. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/responsive-web-design-definition/ "Responsive Web Design (RWD) and User Experience"] Check |url= value (help). www.nngroup.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02.

I believe this information is important because although the definition is clear and evident, there is a lack of sense, purpose and goal for completing RWD's. Also explaining necessary accomplishments like creating content, design and performance is also necessary to mention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmvhustler (talk • contribs) 06:56, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

This Company Is A Giant Scam
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! Refuse to refund my money!!

After a failed attempt to cancel my renewal (due to some unknown issue) Bluehost have failed to honour their money back guarantee, stating yet more technical issues. They could neither explain the problem nor give even an estimated time frame for my refund, refusing to narrow it down to days, months or (shockingly) even years!

Their customer support could barely understand what I was saying half the time, and the wait times for live chat were upwards of 10 minutes. When I asked simple questions they would ignore my question and simply rattle a scripted nonsense that had nothing to do with my query! If they didn't like my question they would simply stop responding.

I cancelled my hosting renewal because not only had the price increased 3 fold but their website was impossible to use. I had to ask a friend who builds websites for a living to help install wordpress as their one-click install didn't work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.210.127 (talk) 21:46, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

real name system
The time of announcement of "the code of conduct" of Weibo should be more precise. "earlier this month" is not clear. YunzhiWU TPT (talk) 15:03, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Proposal to rename Category:Animated internet series
There is a proposal to rename Category:Animated internet series to Category:Animated web series. The discussion is located here. ~Cheers, Ten  Ton  Parasol  15:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Tony Chang for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tony Chang is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Tony Chang until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 17:48, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Input on name change and new draft for Internet media company
Hello! Wondering if members of this WikiProject would be interested in looking at updates for digital media company, Uproxx Media Group (formerly Woven Digital), which owns brands including Uproxx and BroBible. For the company, I have written an updated draft seeking to improve the current article and in my edit request, I've also proposed moving the article to the company's current name, Uproxx Media Group. Since I have a conflict of interest, I'm trying to find neutral editors to review the proposed draft and weigh in on the name change suggestion. Would anyone here be able to help? Thanks in advance. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:44, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Netflix
Template:Netflix has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 04:21, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Elijah Daniel for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elijah Daniel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Elijah Daniel (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sagecandor (talk) 04:18, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Shorty Awards
As far as I can tell, the page Shorty Awards is a matter-of-fact listing of the historical events in a chronological fashion.

A user has come by with drive-by-tagging of COI and Advert, refusing to give any specifics as to why.

Attention would be appreciated, at Talk:Shorty Awards.

Thank you !

Sagecandor (talk) 17:16, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Current & previous
Knowledge in wikipedia, even I.T./web stuff, does not need to only show current update information. Pages can be used to preserve information on what is related and especially the previous development of the thing/people/event. For example, instead of forcefully remove web hosting services which are no longer free of charge, or no longer exist, organised the data better to show development or phases.

Rationale
 * Knowledge and culture: learn, absorb, improve, present and pass on.
 * Things or services that existed, let them leave a mark in wikipedia. Try not to erase history. Respect.

 How to organise 

Please consider use separate sections / sub-heading/ tables: (ideally the tables listing are sortable by column headers )


 * current providers, with the start year/month and status as current.
 * previous providers, with valid-from and valid-to dates or start-date and end-date.(or year)

So when people try to learn or trace the topic about free web hosting services, more comprehensive information are available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_services

Similar arrangements can be made for other pages, including but not limited to, IT / web / technology / services.

p.s. Thanks for consideration. (I posted this after experiencing my contributions in other pages sometimes forcefully removed/edited away.) A designer and ex-teacher who is interesting in knowledge & culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaaan5 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

I suggest new article in English Wikipedia
pl:Projekt internetowy What do you think about new article in English Wikipedia - Internet project (or Internet projects). In my opinion should be the long article in English Wikipedia. Dawid2009 (talk) 09:15, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the suggestion! I quickly read through the Polish article using Google Translate, and the subject looks interesting. I am not finding any reliable sources on this topic, though. Do you know about any news articles or books on Project Internet? Any language would be fine. ~ Mable ( chat ) 10:05, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No I don't know but similar topics in ENwiki there are. Article in PLwiki there is since 2002 while I have not found any informations about Internet projects in other wikies. Dawid2009 (talk) 10:56, 26 September 2017 (UTC)


 * In English Wikipedia interesing informations there are in Collaboration but it is not a lot of. Mybe based on Category:Internet-based works, Online encyclopedia or Online newspaper (Wikitribune) article will be possible to created? Dawid2009 (talk) 11:19, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It may just be a bit difficult to write an article on this topic, especially if there's not many sources on it. I'm honestly not entirely certain what "Project Internet" entails yet; based on the Polish article, it looks more like it should be an "internet project" in English and covering any online collaboration project. If there isn't any formal definition using this term, there's not really a topic to write about. Maybe the article we're looking for is Computer-supported collaboration? "Online collaboration" redirects to that article. ~ Mable ( chat ) 14:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I see pl:Projekt Internetowy include websites based on online collaboration but also for example SETI@home. I will try question to main authors of this article in polish Wikipedia (I personally think that Internet project is a less complex concept than "Computer-supported collaboration" and has very similar definition to "Online collaboration"). Dawid2009 (talk) 17:08, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * If you create a draft for it and add some sources, I'd be happy to look through them and work on it for a bit ^_^ I'm still not sure if it is actually a topic discussed by reliable sources. If it's all original ideas, then it doesn't really work on Wikipedia. ~ Mable ( chat ) 18:51, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Alexa "negative increase"
Some infoboxes about websites, such as Wikiquote, use a red upwards-pointing arrow (alt-text="negative increase") to indicate that a website's rank number has become mathematically smaller, even though that means its prominence has increase - nothing is "negative" at all, we wouldn't say a song moving from #10 to #9 on the charts had a "negative increase", just that it went up.

Also, Alexa itself uses red down arrows and green up arrows, so this is someone's own method instead of reflecting the source.

If someone can tell me something I'm just not getting about this, I will be happy to learn. But at the moment, it looks like this "negative increase" is nothing if not confusing

Anarcho-authoritarian (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Headless CMS
Dear Internet experts: Here's an article in your area that could use some work.&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:42, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Amazon Prime Music now available in Canada
Hello! Amazon now offers Prime Music to its Prime susbcriber in Canada. Thought you would like you know. Here is the source : http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/amazon-canada-launches-prime-music-657645113.html Thanks for your work Nathalie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.33.64.216 (talk) 16:45, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Please come and help...
 Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  02:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Blackhat Internet Marketing
Doctor973 (talk) 07:41, 25 December 2017 (UTC)Blackhat Internet Marketing is not hacking. There are a group of people, devoted to making the internet a better place with more freedom without harming anybody. Those are the true Blackhat surfers. They don´t harm anybody, they don´t go agains the law, but they are smart, brilliant, short-cutter, loophole seekers,and really pragmatic people that with high dosis of brotherhood, ethycs and Integrity that can yes "bend" the law here and there to serve a mayor cause. Blackhat Golden Elite memebership is one of those, their Manifesto is reproduced here:

https://s20.postimg.org/63v8vc2m5/manifesto.jpg

RFC of interest to members of this project:
See Here. Thank you. -- Jayron <b style="color:#090">32</b> 19:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

شركة الامانة 0500466401
كشف تسربات المياه0500466401 [|تسربات المياه 0500466401] عزل اسطح 0500466401 شفط بيارات 0500466401 عزل فوم 0500466401 — Preceding unsigned comment added by أمينه فؤاد (talk • contribs) 11:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

VandaSec
Does anyone have views on the notability of VandaSec, and specifically whether coverage of a single event establishes a hacking group's notability? Cordless Larry (talk) 18:32, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

External links to listed items in Internet-related lists
There is a discussion at Category talk:Internet-related lists concerning the external links in Internet-related lists, as to whether individual items can be followed by a reference linking to the item on the Internet. w umbolo  ^^^  19:19, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Quicken Tech Support Number
Quicken Tech Support Number — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.92.37.118 (talk) 10:07, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC at WikiProject YouTube
Should we expand the project scope of WikiProject YouTube to include other online videos/video platforms? Zoom ( talk page ) 19:16, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Draft:ECLID
Could somebody take a look at Draft:ECLID. It doesn't look very notable to me, but I'm not up on our current policy around this. Are all TLD's automatically notable? Please review the draft and leave comments. Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:00, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Sources for Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Please join the discussion on what sources would be adequate for what claims on this time-sensitive article. We have the problem that countless sources point in the same direction, but the usual sources for such aggregate information fail to provide it. --Nemo 07:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Dropbox history
Flagging this up: Talk:Dropbox_(service). Please reply there. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 08:54, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Internet Association
I could use more eyes on this. The IPs turning up to add material are painfully obvious shills; they've progressed from uncited hagiography to material that is cited merely in that, yes, it appears to be true. I don't really have the time to take a critical look and decide if it actually merits inclusion, and if we are getting a one-sided selection of material (well, we are, but what else is out there?)

It seems entirely possible an uninvolved editor will disagree with some of my recent excisions; that's fine. I just want uninvolved editors to take a look. Pinkbeast (talk) 10:19, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Request for comment on Brave (web browser)
There is a request for comment on the Brave (web browser) article:


 * Should the Brave web browser be classified as a pay-to-surf web browser?

If you are interested, please participate at Talk:Brave (web browser). —  Newslinger  talk   20:22, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Notification
There are multiple discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject YouTube § Survey on multiple infobox issues that you might be interested in. Please comment over there, as I am not watching this page. w umbolo  ^^^  10:10, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

"Internet personas" category?
Do you guys think an "internet personas" (for things such as Internet Troll, Neckbeard, Lurker, etc.) category would be beneficial? I checked and there doesn't seem to be any similar category, so I thought I may as well see what other's thought about the idea. -- LichWizard  talk  23:04, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

proposal to split Foursquare
Hi! I've been paid by Foursquare to propose splitting Foursquare into two articles: one focused on the Foursquare City Guide app, and one focused on Foursquare Labs the company, which for the past several years has focused on advertising technology and other enterprise products. Details and proposed drafts are on the current article's talk page, here. I tremendously appreciate any help or feedback. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 21:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Help with updates for Reddit article
Hi all! Are any editors from this WikiProject interested to help with a request to update the History section of Reddit? I've shared drafted changes for the section and a detailed explanation as to why my draft is an improvement to the article at the Reddit Talk page. In full disclosure: I'm making these suggestions on behalf of Reddit, as part of my work at Beutler Ink, so I will not make any direct edits to the article myself. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:46, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ This is has been done. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 21:42, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

DRAFT: GridDB
Can somebody let me know if my draft for GridDB NoSQL Database is ready for full publication? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:GridDB

Thanks, IllegalThoughts (talk) 23:17, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Copyright implications of links to CiteSeerX
Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Copyrights. Nemo 15:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

VyprVPN, a company article or a software?
Please check VyprVPN, it is a strange mixture of a company article and a product article. I guess it should be turned to a software article with the appropriate infobox. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:30, 5 April 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)

my best practice

 * Mary Rose de Vega

from the Philippines start from C: Programming Network architecture build in OS BUILD IN CPU W3C architecture — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.147.33.51 (talk) 07:39, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Manual of style - should we using lower case "internet"?
Please see discussion here. -- [E.3]  [chat2]  [me]   15:00, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Digital media use and mental health FA nom
Hello! I was wondering if any members of the WikiProject could kindly take a look at the review for this article that I nominated. I listed it in the WikiProject as mid importance. With many kind thanks -- [E.3]  [chat2]  [me]   15:01, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Call for portal maintainers
Are there any editors from this WikiProject willing to maintain Portal:Internet? The Portals guideline requires that portals be maintained, and as a result numerous portals have been recently been deleted via MfD largely because of lack of maintenance. Let me know either way, and thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:59, 22 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) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Blog Networks are not Link Farms
A few years ago someone proposed combining the Blog Network article with the Link Farm article, which is completely inappropriate. Unfortunately I and other people who know the difference don't monitor the Link Farm page.

Link farms have nothing to do with blog networks and vice versa. By definition a link farm is merely a group of sites that all link to each other - from special "reciprocal links" pages or groups of such pages. The original link farm was called Buddy Links and the pages were manually created and sent out to members every week. Subsequent link farms were created through special software that pushed out the linking pages.

The original link farms did not violate search engine guidelines and were not intended as spam. They were used to keep pages indexed in highly volatile search indexes. Search engines like Google and Yahoo eventually updated their policies to forbid the practice and link farming died. The end of link farms came more because of abuse of the software creating them than because of the search engines' objections to them.

Blog networks used for linking intentionally do NOT link to each other. The commercial blog networks attempt to avoid detection by search engine algorithms by not reciprocating links among themselves. Private blog networks are harder to describe but many are created by "turnkey systems" that spit out a ton of blogs.

It is more appropriate to call them Private Linking Networks.

The PBNs/PLNs usually do not interlink with each other. The spammers instead inject links into hundreds or thousands of other sites to point to their network blogs. They may also submit the blogs to RSS directories and other directories for links.

I have not edited the article as I write this because the bad merger has been in place for so long. I'm leaving this comment and adding the page to my Watch list. If someone else wants to comment and offer a suggestion for how the blended article can be improved, I'm willing to consider that before proposing a new article be created.

I'd rather keep this as simple as possible but link farms and blog networks are about as closely related to each other as reindeer and mongooses. Michael Martinez (talk) 02:31, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

I agree with Michael Martinez that a "blog network" is very different from a Link farm, and the pages should not have been merged. However, and this may be part of the challenge, it seems that I might have a different point of view. To me, a blog network is a network of different blog sites that are all affiliated under a single umbrella. The authors may choose to affiliate. Or a corporation or organization may create a network of blogs on different topics or subjects. To me, a "link farm" is a set of sites typically used now for creating links in an attempt to influence search engine rankings. Regardless of perspective, I do agree they are two different things. -Dyork (talk) 02:54, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps the solution has been sitting in front of us the whole time. The topics in this article fall under Spamdexing (not really a word used outside of Wikipedia but that's a whole different discussion). Why not merge this article into Spamdexing? That would be the simplest way to fix this problem. Michael Martinez (talk) 14:03, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Interesting idea, but I don't see "spamdexing" being in common enough usage in regular language to warrant a page. And I do think a "blog network" can in fact be a positive thing when used in certain contexts, and just the name "spamdexing" makes me immediately think negatively. I would not support merging them into a new "spamdexing" page. Dyork (talk) 22:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Verizon updates (5G)
Hello! I posted requests at Talk:Verizon Wireless and Talk:Verizon Communications to update Verizon's 5G efforts. WikiProject Internet editors might wish to review. As I work for Verizon and have a conflict of interest, I ask others to look at my draft and make edits on my behalf. Thank you, VZEric (talk) 20:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ VZEric (talk) 16:22, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Search Engine Privacy
I wanted to bring to attention that the page for search engine privacy has yet to be graded in terms of quality and importance. I think it would benefit this project to review these guidelines for future editors. Breadyornot (talk) 18:36, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Internet Society
Hi WikiProject Internet editors: I am looking for fresh eyes to review a request at Talk:Internet Society. I work at Internet Society, so I have a conflict of interest that I disclosed earlier this year. Since late last year, there has been some back-and-forth editing on the article and discussions on its talk page. I joined Wikipedia to be a resource to assist Wikipedia editors in bringing the article up-to-date. To start, I proposed updates for the article's Organization section because the section in the live article does not cite any references. I welcome collaboration and I am happy to edit my proposed draft to better meet Wikipedia's principles, practices and spirit.

Thank you. Neville at Internet Society (talk) 10:21, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I am among those who do not appreciate the Internet Society's PR team trying to whitewash and rewrite the article to remove important and relevant content. The current article could certainly be improved, but not be replacing it with the 'about' page of the Internet Society website. Ferdeline (talk) 20:09, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I would like to mention to volunteer editors who may read Ferdeline's accusations here and elsewhere on Wikipedia that what I would like to see is an encyclopedic entry about the Internet Society that not only presents an up-to-date picture of the organization with independent verifications to give credence to what is said, but also to do this via Talk pages in a manner that embraces and follows the policies, procedures, spirit and collaborative nature of volunteerism editing at Wikipedia. I want to do this in a transparent manner, hence openly asking the community to help complete this work. If volunteer editors decide my proposed content needs to be adjusted to better meet Wikipedia's style and rules, I am happy to collaborate in a manner that results in a better encyclopedia entry.


 * Thanks. Neville at Internet Society (talk) 13:40, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Link tax
Hello, the article just describes the German case. Please add information about the linx tax regulations of Spain, the European Union and Canada. --NaBUru38 (talk) 19:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Please make full use of Template:Decrease for websites' Alexa rank
Greetings!

Alas I don't have time to personally join your worthy project, but I still wanted to give you a small heads-up (kinda cross-posting this from WikiProject Websites, so hopefully more people see it):

Template:Decrease, which produces these nice red & green arrow-thingys indicating a rank change ( & ), actually also has options for negative increase  and positive decrease.

These should be used whenever there is a ranking in which - like e.g. in sports - 1st place is best, and higher numbers worse.

This is used as intended in a number of Wikipedia articles, but notably not in the vast majority of websites which have an Alexa rank. But Alexa ranks are like that - the lower, the better!

So to avoid confusion for the reader, I strongly suggest to henceforth use the proper pointing arrow on all Alexa rankings (and also on all other applicable rankings).

I tried to update a few articles to use this by hand, but I could not find a way to correct all instances automatically. If there is one, I'd love to know how to use it. --LordPeterII (talk) 18:38, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Asking for article reviews
How does one add an article to the list of articles for review? I've just added Draft:NewNode Drhealthcaredata (talk) 19:49, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Internet Society History
Hi WikiProject Internet editors: I am looking for editors interested in the Internet to review a request at Talk:Internet Society. I proposed updates to the article's History section. The draft removes content that is either unsourced or relies solely on primary sources; adds sourcing where possible; eliminates some redundancy; and adds new content. I work at the Internet Society, so I have a conflict of interest that I've previously disclosed. Can anyone help? Thank you. Neville at Internet Society (talk) 13:32, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

"Internet" vs. "internet"
Please see Talk:Internet

There's some debate there about the difference between "the Internet" and "an internet", about what a proper name is, and about whether news style guides (cf. WP:NOT policy) should be considered reliable for how to write about technical topics. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:35, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

JSON Meta Application Protocol improvements
Dear Wikipedians of project Internet. JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol might need some rewrite. If some of you want to take a look at it, that would be great :).

I hope this is the correct way of reaching out to you. I was pointed at your project by another Wikipedian in Talk:JSON Meta Application Protocol. Jaudriga (talk) 08:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Suggest creation of list article on HTTP authentication/Security access control methods
There doesn't seem to be any good place on Wikipedia listing the different access control methods such as Basic, Digest, Bearer (JWT, OpenID, Oauth), API keys, HTTP+HTML form-based authentication, TLS-SRP, Secure Remote Password protocol, Kerberos (protocol)/SPNEGO. I gathered them together based upon lists from outside sources and lists inside of Wikipedia on there respective article pages and it seems like as they all try to solve broadly the same problem usually using the same HTTP Header (Authorization: ) they seem to be a prime candidate for a list article.

Now I have never done article creation before and am not confident that I know enough to properly cover the topic and I am not even confident that I have adequately checked that what I want doesn't already exist (though if it does, I can't find it where I'd expect it) so I would appreciate it if someone else could create it for me. Thank-you. El komodos drago (talk to me) 10:46, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Webcare
Please help fix this stub. Bearian (talk) 17:22, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Requests for MasterClass article
Hello! My name is Alyssa and I work for the online streaming platform MasterClass. I've disclosed this on my profile and at Talk:MasterClass, where I've proposed some changes to make the article more accurate and up to date. More specifically, I've asked to correct language about the company's founding and remove a sentence which is not specifically confirmed by sourcing. Editor feedback has been limited, so I'm hoping some editors from WikiProject Internet can take a look and update the article for me. Thanks! MC Alyssa (talk) 01:33, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

February Online Edit-a-thon
WikiProject_Organized_Labour/Online_edit-a-thon_Tech_February_2021 - Online and global about trade unions and technology ~ Shushugah (talk) 19:18, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

hello
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by ..xgamer katie (talk • contribs) 18:23, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

.eco
The page .eco may need watching and updating. I've rolled it back to the February 2020 version, which does NOT include much if anything regarding the trademark controversy involving Planet .ECO LLC.

Two "connected contributors," likely paid, have attempted to add this material, but in a way that contradicts official information from ICAAN.

There may be a place for information about this controversy in the page, but only if it has received enough independent coverage to be "encyclopedic." In any case, it should be added by someone with no conflict-of-interest.

There may be an argument that the whole topic is non-notable and that it should be redirected to List of Internet top-level domains.

While I haven't violated WP:3RR, I am far enough into this back-and-forth that I need to stop and get input from others with no "skin in the game," which is why I'm posting here.

Courtesy ping to, , and whose edits were undone by my reversion back to the February 2020 revision. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  00:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Note to other editors - u|Davidwr does have a case of one or two new editors who seem to have clear COI continuing to edit and update this page for .eco. It seems that they are with one of the companies that was unsuccessful in bidding for the .ECO top-level domain back when ICANN was going through the newgTLD expansion process. They are now repeatedly editing the .eco page to change it from the correct information about the current operator to instead have information about their company. They seem to be going back and forth a great amount with u|Davidwr. I have added my support / agreement with Davidwr's suggested path for the page. It would be helpful if some other editors also weighed in at Talk:.eco. Thank you. - Dyork (talk) 01:21, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Request for other editors to participate - As noted above, u|Davidwr is engaged in an editing situation where another editor with clear COI (as his company name is part of his Wikipedia name) is continuing to argue the page should be about his company. Whenever Davidwr or now myself revert the page back to its original purpose, this editor then reverts the page back to his version promoting his company. We could use the assistance of other editors to help resolve this situation. Please see Talk:.eco for the lengthy exchanges - and scroll to the bottom for the current state. Thank you in advance if any of you can assist! - Dyork (talk) 01:30, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Sandbox organiser
Hi all

I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.

Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.

Hope its helpful

John Cummings (talk) 11:37, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

FAR of Acid2
I have nominated Acid2 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. Femke Nijsse (talk) 19:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Help with article about technology company
Hello. I’m hoping a member of this group can help out with a few changes I’ve proposed to improve the Cloudflare article at Talk:Cloudflare/Archives/2021. I have a conflict of interest so would like an independent editor to evaluate the proposed edits. Thanks! Ryanknight24 (talk) 18:49, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated The Million Dollar Homepage 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. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Unison Online Service - needs some help, history of the internet?
This was marked as a stub recently, but has been unsourced and apparently COI since 2009.

I've just put a note on its talk page which I'll copy below:

Having seen this in Category:Stubs I considered nominating it for AfD, as unsourced since forever and initially created with COI (by user "Fdudden", whose only other two edits were to create their user page). But a "BEFORE" search (Dudden Unison) found several non-wiki-mirror mentions of Unison and it looks as if it has a place in the history of networking. Some expert in the field might like to expand this article, or redirect it to somewhere that it's mentioned already.

It seems to have been the platform used by Ecunet, which had an article before being turned into a redirect, but which apparently still exists.

Sources found, verifying its existence, perhaps hardly amounting to notability but probably justifying a mention somewhere in the encyclopedia:
 * http://www.anr.org/web/html/archive/old/html/output/95/10yraft_e.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20100911045119/http://www.ecunet.org/history.html
 * https://www1.freewebs.com/gordonlaird/uchg1011.htm

History of the internet, and religious networking, are not my specialist subjects. Pam D  09:11, 21 February 2021 (UTC)


 * - Thanks for raising that article. I do have a background in the history of the Internet, but I had not heard of Unison Online Services. I opened a new section on the History of the Internet Talk page to see if anyone might be able to help more. I am also on some "Internet history" email lists and can ask there, too. - Dyork (talk) 02:01, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Help with article about public ecommerce company
Hello. I’m hoping a member of this project is able to help on the BigCommerce article? I suggested a few changes to improve the article here Talk:BigCommerce. Since I have a COI, I can’t edit the article directly. Thanks!QuesoFan9639 (talk) 16:45, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Reorganized content on: Online Deliberation
Hi. I wanted to let you know that I made a pretty substantial update to Online deliberation. It was listed as a start-class, but I think the changes are substantial enough that it could be upgraded. UWCLStudentSpring2021 (talk) 23:20, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

New historical resource available (Nov 2020) about DNS and early history of Internet
Just noting that in November 2020, ICANN published a report titled "The Creation and Administration of Unique Identifiers, 1967-2017" that may be very useful as a reference source for some of the historical info in articles related to DNS, the history of the Internet, ARPANET, and other topics. - Dyork (talk) 11:55, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Guidance sought at Verizon Wireless
Please see Talk:Verizon_Wireless. I am seeking guidance on the best way to update the Verizon Wireless article since the description of Verizon Wireless as a division of Verizon Communications is no longer accurate and I believe bringing clarity to this issue will improve the article. As I work for Verizon and have a conflict of interest, I ask others to look at my requests and make edits on my behalf. Thank you, VZEric (talk) 15:21, 18 March 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ - Just noting that some work has been done on this. The article name has been changed and the text updated. VZEric still has a number of requests waiting on the Talk page (and I have not had the cycles to continue to work with him on this). - Dyork (talk) 11:59, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Dyork, for your help on the article so far. If you or any other editors have questions about my proposed updates to the page, we can discuss more at Talk:Verizon_(mobile_network). VZEric (talk) 16:38, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Most viewed stub in this Wikiproject
.bf	42,670	1,422	Stub--Coin945 (talk) 14:44, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Multi-editor discussion requested for Cloudflare
There is a new discussion on the Talk page of Cloudflare, the ISP, about three issues that were looked at by one editor as part of a conflict of interest review. Talk:Cloudflare/Archives/2021 I think the discussion would benefit from multiple editors weighing in. Thank you. Ryanknight24 (talk) 22:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Uniform Resource Identifier
Uniform Resource Identifier, 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. Air<b style="color: green;">corn</b> (talk) 23:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Equinix COI edit requests
Hi! I've posted some COI edit requests at Talk:Equinix. Sharing in case anyone here is interested in taking a look. Thank you for any help or feedback! Mary Gaulke (talk) 13:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Arabeyes up for deletion
Open source publisher trying to aid Arab language users with their computers etc. It was established in early 2001 by a number of Arab Linux enthusiasts. Trying to find sources is hampered by the presumed language of sources. It is a systemic bias in Wikipedia. Arabic language speakers needed. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 17:15, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Web 3.0 redirect up for discussion
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 10 § XFDC0. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:56, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:50 Cent Party
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:50 Cent Party that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. SkyWarrior 02:07, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Review of article content
Hello, there is an open discussion at Talk:Curiosity Stream evaluating the content of the article in response to paid editors. Another editor has provided additional feedback on suggested changes, and I have drafted changes in a sandbox for the page. The article could benefit from having an uninvolved editor review the discussion and implement the changes if they agree. Thank you in advance for anyone willing to take the time. WyldEys (talk) 01:35, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * OP sockblocked.  Java Hurricane  14:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Yahoo Infobox
Hello there, editors! My name is Spencer and I work for Yahoo. I posted an edit request on the Yahoo Talk page to update the Infobox, which was partially implemented. But there are a few remaining proposed edits for consideration. Is anyone available to review the remaining requests for implementation? Nothing major, just looking to get the Infobox updated. Due to my COI, I am not able to update the article myself. Spencer at Yahoo (talk) 20:37, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Help with Dan Wagner article update
Hi. Editors of this project might be interested in suggestions to update the article about Dan Wagner (a well-known U.K. tech entrepreneur). The proposals are here: Talk:Dan Wagner. Since I have a COI, an independent editor or editors must review these. Thanks.W12SW77 (talk) 15:34, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

HomeLight article proposals help
Hi, a while back a few updates were proposed to improve the quality of the HomeLight article here, and since the Request Edits Queue seems to be stalled I am hoping an independent editor might be interested in reviewing those proposals. (I can’t implement them myself since I have a conflict of interest and am aware that would be a violation of Wikipedia policy.) Could someone in this WikiProject please take a look at these requests? Thanks very much. Ilovecats9669 (talk) 18:49, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

User wants to remove "derogatory" from the lead of Libs of TikTok
You are invited to join this discussion!

A user on the talk page has advocated for changing "derogatory" to "critical" in description of the account's tweets. Evidence is provided of tweets mocking and belittling others based on gender/sexual orientation/race. Others disagree whether this constitutes "derogatory" material. Your input would be greatly appreciated. The discussion can be found here. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 16:48, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Template talk:Google
There is a requested move discussion at Template talk:Google that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 16:52, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Requests for Jeff Arnold (Internet entrepreneur)
Hello! I'm Arty and I work for Sharecare, as I've acknowledged on my profile and at Talk:Jeff Arnold (Internet entrepreneur). I use my account to share ideas for improving articles related to the company. Back in November, I began submitting edit requests to improve Jeff Arnold's article using the edit request template, but I've not received any replies. Are any editors watching this page willing to take a look? SharecareAD (talk) 22:25, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Block (Internet)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Block (Internet) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:02, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Twitter
Twitter has been nominated for a 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Rahul Ligma
An article which may be of interest to members of this project&mdash;Rahul Ligma&mdash;has been proposed for merging with Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. –– Formal Dude  (talk)  00:44, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Requested input on Talk:Shipping (fandom)
There's a discussion on Talk:Shipping (fandom) about whether (or not) to add a section about antis/anti-shippers to the article. Your input would be appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 17:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Digital media use and mental health
I have nominated Digital media use and mental health for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the 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" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Splitting discussion for List of fake news websites


An article related to this WikiProject (List of fake news websites: 645kb) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to six other articles. If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 01:13, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

"Charlie Morningstar" and "Vaggie" at AfD
"Charlie Morningstar" and "Vaggie" have been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Charlie Morningstar and Articles for deletion/Vaggie. Your comments on these AfDs would be appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 04:05, 28 March 2024 (UTC)