Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing
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Descendant project parameters
[edit]I am boosting an edit request for Template:WikiProject Computing to add the rest of the descendant wikiprojects as parameters to the main template. A list of missing projects is collected there.
Consensus is needed. Tule-hog (talk) 05:09, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Template:JavaScript and Template:ECMAScript merge proposal
[edit]There was an unofficial merge proposal that did not reach consensus or take action. Bumping here. Tule-hog (talk) 17:14, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
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15.ai 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. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Fixing watchlist
[edit]Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing/sidebar#recent_Computing-related_changes and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing/Archive_13#Project_watchlist (courtesy ping to DFlhb), I propose appending the target of /Recent changes to the home page's article alerts, similar to WP:COMPSEC.
Here is a preview (styling sourced from COMPSEC):
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
16 January 2025
- diffhist GNU/Linux naming controversy 11:41 −355 PhotographyEdits talk contribs (remove decorative artwork) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist GNU/Linux naming controversy 11:40 −29 PhotographyEdits talk contribs (simplify short description) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist GNU/Linux naming controversy 11:38 −18 PhotographyEdits talk contribs (MOS:AVOIDBOLD) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Planon 10:12 +24 Stella2707 talk contribs (added new source 'Gartner') Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist ThinkPad R series 07:16 +71 Dcfbf talk contribs (Added Image of ThinkPad R40 to the section about the R40)
- diffhist Techreport 07:07 +388 VladM8 talk contribs (Updated the forum section, as the publisher's forums were taken offline.) Tag: Visual edit
- Page curation log 05:51 Utopes talk contribs marked the redirect List of cassette tape data storage formats as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- Page curation log 05:10 Tails Wx talk contribs marked the article Tao Xie as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist m GNU/Linux naming controversy 02:40 −61 DigitalIceAge talk contribs Tag: Manual revert
- Move log 02:40 DigitalIceAge talk contribs moved page GNU-Linux naming controversy to GNU/Linux naming controversy over redirect (Subpages are disabled in the mainspace, so the presence of a slash shouldn't pose a problem (except in Talk pages, see WP:NC-SLASH))
- Move log 02:40 DigitalIceAge talk contribs moved page Talk:GNU-Linux naming controversy to Talk:GNU/Linux naming controversy over redirect (Subpages are disabled in the mainspace, so the presence of a slash shouldn't pose a problem (except in Talk pages, see WP:NC-SLASH))
- Deletion log 02:40 DigitalIceAge talk contribs deleted redirect GNU/Linux naming controversy by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from GNU-Linux naming controversy)
- diffhist m CleanMyMac 02:15 +248 GTrang talk contribs (Fixed inconsistent date formatting.)
- diffhist 15.ai 01:14 +851 174.198.2.184 talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Xuexi Qiangguo 00:36 +108 GreenC talk contribs
15 January 2025
- diffhist Draft:Ai siththara 23:59 +39 Nethmin chamika talk contribs
- diffhist Draft:Ai siththara 23:57 −55 SafariScribe talk contribs (Declining submission: v - Submission is improperly sourced and nn - Submission is about a topic not yet shown to meet general notability guidelines (be more specific if possible) (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:Peter McKenzie Armstrong 23:56 −540 AlphaBetaGamma talk contribs (Declining submission: ilc - Submission is a BLP that does not meet minimum inline citation requirements (AFCH))
- diffhist m Draft:Ai siththara 23:55 +28 Nethmin chamika talk contribs
- diffhist Draft:Ai siththara 23:51 +162 Nethmin chamika talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft talk:Ai siththara 23:51 +111 Nethmin chamika talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft:Ai siththara 23:49 +1,365 Nethmin chamika talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --)
- diffhist m Draft:Peter McKenzie Armstrong 23:48 −2,107 CNMall41 talk contribs (Cleaning up submission (AFCH))
- diffhist m 15.ai 23:30 −18 Davemck talk contribs (Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups)
- diffhist 15.ai 22:57 +48 174.198.8.98 talk (→Reactions from voice actors of featured characters)
- diffhist 15.ai 22:55 +23 174.198.8.98 talk (→Reactions from voice actors of featured characters)
- diffhist 15.ai 22:53 +30 174.198.8.98 talk (→Reactions from voice actors of featured characters)
- diffhist 15.ai 22:50 +1,968 174.198.8.98 talk (added VOC podcast with John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen McLain)
- diffhist Category talk:Chinese software engineers 21:29 +22 Simeon talk contribs (WikiProject tagging) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Category talk:Canadian software engineers 21:29 +51 Simeon talk contribs (WikiProject tagging) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- Deletion log 21:17 Liz talk contribs deleted page Draft:Apache Datafusion (G13: Abandoned draft or AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 21:17 Liz talk contribs deleted page Draft talk:Apache Datafusion (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Draft:Apache Datafusion") Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Template:Latest stable software release/Netscape Navigator 21:10 +2 187.102.255.242 talk Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Category talk:Competitive programmers 21:03 +52 Simeon talk contribs (WikiProject tagging) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist N Category talk:Unix people 21:02 +82 Simeon talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WikiProject banner shell| {{WikiProject Biography}} {{WikiProject Computing}} }}') Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Category talk:Linux software projects 20:54 +25 Simeon talk contribs (WikiProject tagging) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Xuexi Qiangguo 20:47 −46 SantaCrabby talk contribs (Removed notice for expansion, as it was already expanded.)
- diffhist Talk:CleanMyMac 20:36 +720 GTrang talk contribs (Restored previous WikiProjects and thirteen-and-a-half-year-old comment.)
- diffhist Category talk:Linux security software 20:36 +79 Simeon talk contribs (WikiProject tagging) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Xuexi Qiangguo 20:03 −12 SantaCrabby talk contribs (Added information from Chinese Wikipedia.)
- Page curation log 20:02 Harrz talk contribs marked the redirect GNU/Linux naming controversy as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist Xuexi Qiangguo 20:01 +10,785 SantaCrabby talk contribs Tag: Disambiguation links added
- diffhist GNU-Linux naming controversy 19:54 +61 TheTechie talk contribs Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Move log 19:53 TheTechie talk contribs moved page GNU/Linux naming controversy to GNU-Linux naming controversy (Rename to prevent issues with this page being recognized as a subpage of GNU)
- diffhist CleanMyMac 19:29 −24 SarekOfVulcan talk contribs (rm fv tag: "Kyiv-based MacPaw develops productivity tools for the Mac including CleanMyMac and The Unarchiver." is quote from article)
- diffhist Talk:Epiphany Eyewear 19:29 +86 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Home Living, +Computing (Rater))
- Deletion log 19:24 UtherSRG talk contribs undeleted page Talk:CleanMyMac (5 revisions) (Undelete per request at WP:RFUD (rfud-helper))
- diffhist Template:Latest stable software release/Netscape Navigator 18:04 −2 187.102.255.242 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m File talk:Windows 7 SP1 screenshot.png 17:18 −124 GSK talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 103.242.20.218 (talk) to last revision by Shellwood) Tags: Twinkle Undo
It relies on the Editorial Team quality log, which I'm not totally sure of the mechanics of but it gives recent changes to articles rather than the previous just talk pages. Tule-hog (talk) 18:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- Given typical interaction levels on this page, I'll just boldly follow through with this. Feel free to raise any objections. Tule-hog (talk) 18:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- From observing for a little while, I think its clear this is an almost uselessly small subset of the actual articles tagged with WP:COMP. A better solution still awaits. Tule-hog (talk) 01:42, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested merge at Talk:BitTorrent#Requested merge 30 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested merge discussion at Talk:BitTorrent#Requested merge 30 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sceeegt (talk) 19:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
History of programming languages as a list class article
[edit]History of programming languages is pegged as a "list class" article. It has a lot of lists in it but it also has a lot of text. Do you think this categorization is appropriate? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:22, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- I've updated the rating to C class. ~Kvng (talk) 15:04, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Information Security
[edit]Hi all,
I'm in the process of rewriting Information Security and could do with someone looking over my shoulder/helping clear out some of the general fluff. All welcome. Joe (talk) 15:38, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Meta Platforms#Requested move 29 October 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Meta Platforms#Requested move 29 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 21:23, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:.zip (top-level domain)#Requested move 19 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:.zip (top-level domain)#Requested move 19 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 03:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Identity management#Requested move 12 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Identity management#Requested move 12 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 16:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Gapo#Requested move 10 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gapo#Requested move 10 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:18, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:CloudPets#Requested move 18 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:CloudPets#Requested move 18 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Making spoken Wikipedia audios (it may double Wikipedia reads & they're useful)
[edit]Is anybody interested in making spoken Wikipedia audios at scale? I think it could up to double Wikipedia reads and that many readers would be interested in these: most people don't like to read long articles as texts on screens but millions frequently listen to podcasts.
I increasingly find myself listening to these audios instead of to podcasts or audiobooks as Wikipedia covers more interesting things, things fitting better to my interests or needs, covers things better than podcasts (e.g. more neutral, accurate & critical), and is more succinct than overly long audiobooks.
Here is the process to create these as far as I developed it and it could already be used to e.g. fulfill all audio requests. I think most people don't scroll below the large References section to the External links section and the current audio player is outdated with a way too narrow width and without a button to jump back x seconds. Let me know if you have questions. I don't know if there's a better place to ask about this so if there is, please also let me know, thanks!
Prototyperspective (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- I suggest we can maximize the impact of this effort by working popular pages first. ~Kvng (talk) 15:51, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good idea, thanks. Currently, it's more about first maximizing participation I think but making popular pages available probably also helps with that. I thought of creating audios for these next so I'd create audios for a mix of these two kinds of articles and the ones I had already planned earlier the next time I get to it. I also thought about enabling people to request audios on the WikiProject page. I think audios are most useful for 1. lengthy articles that are interesting but not so nice to read on a screen (like the example above) 2. articles about topics that are well podcastable/audiobookable like 'History of xyz'-articles.
Several of those popular pages are already available as audio, e.g. Internet Archive & Artificial intelligence. Developing the process further would probably be most useful, e.g. to make it automatically replace abbreviations with their written out form (like e.g. to for example or M to million) or remove the periods after name initials (like J. K. Rowling to J K Rowling) which results in long pauses which then need to be fixed at some point with a reupload if only noticed afterwards. Issues with audios can be reported using this template. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:42, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good idea, thanks. Currently, it's more about first maximizing participation I think but making popular pages available probably also helps with that. I thought of creating audios for these next so I'd create audios for a mix of these two kinds of articles and the ones I had already planned earlier the next time I get to it. I also thought about enabling people to request audios on the WikiProject page. I think audios are most useful for 1. lengthy articles that are interesting but not so nice to read on a screen (like the example above) 2. articles about topics that are well podcastable/audiobookable like 'History of xyz'-articles.
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ChatGPT
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Wiki
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Artificial intelligence
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History of wikis
- By the way I added audios for many of those popular pages by now. However, they or many of them are not particularly well suited for the audio format like the examples in Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice. If the article is long (ie too long to read) and you're interested in the particular subject they can still be interesting; and of course visually impaired people would also benefit from these. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:17, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Gateway, Inc.#Requested move 20 November 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gateway, Inc.#Requested move 20 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
In 2023 [1], this article turned from a general topic to a business topic; and from a non-AI topic to an AI-topic. This seems odd, as the article already describes non-business uses; and uses that are not-AI based. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 15:36, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Double-precision floating-point format § Semi-protected edit request on 28 December 2024
[edit]You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Double-precision floating-point format § Semi-protected edit request on 28 December 2024. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 21:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
An editor's review needed
[edit]Hi WikiProject Computing Editors,
I wonder if any editors would be interested in reviewing our suggestions for the Tencent Cloud page? I'm on Wikipedia on behalf of Tencent hence we have only made suggestions via it's Talk page, but have not heard back for 3 weeks (we're aware it's holiday season!).
Your help would be appreciated!
Best,
Yeran TencentCommsYeran (talk) 04:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for MacBook (2006–2012)
[edit]MacBook (2006–2012) 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. Hog Farm Talk 23:50, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
An editor's review needed
[edit]Could someone with knowledge weigh in on an editor's Jan 7-8th edits on Locomotive BASIC? I'm out of my element, but it's very confusing how the article is called Locomotive Basic, but seems to (from this editor's changes) to now have a main focus on Amstrad and barely mentions Locomotive. Either they are content forking/hijacking the article, or the article needs moving. Zinnober9 (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
The article Village Area Network has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Unreferenced and unimproved 15 years. Tagged for notability for 10 years.
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Good article reassessment for Steam (service)
[edit]Steam (service) 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. 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) 14:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
This article has been unsourced for almost 15 years. Our options are:
- Find and add reliable sources; or
- Merge with a relevant article; or
- Go to WP:AfD.