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)
New source for IBM System/23 Datamaster, also requesting help
[edit]Hello,
I am studying the foresaid computer and fixing part of the information in the article. Wikipedia is not a primary source, therefore I am updating data in my website, then updating the wikipedia article. While I cannot leave the wrong data at place, I am facing a moral dilemma on wether I should be updating it if I am also one of the sources.
For this reason I would like to ask a revision on the foresaid article by somebody else that is not me who could also be critic of my own work. I am open to suggestions and questions.
Also, I am facing the language barrier for the other wikipedias that still display the wrong information. Could anybody help me, please?
Thank you in advance and sorry for the trouble.
Buran Biggest Fan (talk) 12:03, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- I not sure I see a WP:COI here. However, it does not smell right to use your own site as a citation for improvements you make. You must have gotten your information from somewhere else; can you cite that? If you feel you can't make corrections, consider using {{Dubious}} and talk page discussion to help other editors help you. Admittedly it is a niche topic and help may not be immediately forthcoming but there have been 35 contributors to the article over its 20-year existence. ~Kvng (talk) 16:20, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested move 19 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested move 19 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 03:48, 6 October 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
2 January 2025
- Move log 04:39 Kvng talk contribs moved page Draft:Comparison of portable media players to Comparison of portable media players (WP:DRAFTOBJECT)
- Move log 04:39 Kvng talk contribs moved page Draft talk:Comparison of portable media players to Talk:Comparison of portable media players (WP:DRAFTOBJECT)
- diffhist 15.ai 04:24 +42 GregariousMadness talk contribs (→External links)
- diffhist m Atasi Corporation 04:18 −24 NickW1129 talk contribs (→Reemergence/David Morris era (1990–1995): sentence fix) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist 15.ai 04:18 +43 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Added official website template.)
- diffhist Draft:PAR Technology 03:05 +1,227 99.217.109.198 talk (→History) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- Page curation log 02:28 Significa liberdade talk contribs marked the redirect Schengen Cloud as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist Schengen Cloud 02:28 +21 Significa liberdade talk contribs (Redirecting to Edward Snowden#Schengen Cloud (♑)) Tag: Redirect target changed
- diffhist Appin (company) 01:17 +48 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Fixed title in ref tag.)
- diffhist 2024 United States Department of the Treasury hack 00:37 +22 ElijahPepe talk contribs (→Background)
- diffhist 2024 United States Department of the Treasury hack 00:36 +555 ElijahPepe talk contribs (→Discovery)
- diffhist Appin (company) 00:10 +6 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Updated the first sentence to use the full names of the Khare brothers for professionalism.)
1 January 2025
- diffhist Appin (company) 23:50 +263 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Cleaned up the paragraphs.)
- diffhist Template:Timeline FreeBSD 23:48 0 Xose.vazquez talk contribs
- diffhist Binary independence model 23:39 +2 Closed Limelike Curves talk contribs (Reword) Tag: Visual edit
- Deletion log 22:37 Rsjaffe talk contribs deleted page Draft:MyRentas (G13: Abandoned draft or AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 22:37 Rsjaffe talk contribs deleted page Draft talk:MyRentas (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Draft:MyRentas") Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist 15.ai 22:01 −244 Alalch E. talk contribs (→In fandom culture: that's not an image with a caption, that's a pull quote with a decorative image, and that's not okay)
- diffhist Talk:15.ai 21:43 −1 Alalch E. talk contribs (rate importance)
- diffhist Talk:Atasi Corporation 21:08 +81 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Atasi Corporation 20:53 +28 Darwin Naz talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Companies (Rater))
- diffhist 15.ai 20:23 +26 GregariousMadness talk contribs (→In fandom culture)
- diffhist 15.ai 20:17 +40 GregariousMadness talk contribs (→In fandom culture)
- diffhist 15.ai 20:16 +380 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Added SpongeBob to the "In fandom culture" section.)
- Move log 20:13 Closed Limelike Curves talk contribs moved page Binary Independence Model to Binary independence model (Change to sentence case (MOS:AT))
- diffhist Appin (company) 19:20 +379 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Made a few small fixes.)
- diffhist 15.ai 19:00 −2 Maxeto0910 talk contribs (no sentences) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Category talk:Windows text editors 18:44 +26 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Biography}}; cleanup) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:EProductivity 18:13 +40 Mika1h talk contribs (+banner)
- diffhist m Appin (company) 18:06 +8 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Changed a few words for better flow.)
- diffhist Appin (company) 17:52 +82 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Cleaned up the paragraph.)
- diffhist Talk:Unique local address 17:49 −2 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Appin (company) 17:26 +9 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Small edit.)
- diffhist 15.ai 17:24 +1 Sirfurboy talk contribs (→Works cited: bullet)
- diffhist 15.ai 17:20 −512 Sirfurboy talk contribs (CNN ref to bibliography)
- diffhist m Category talk:Text editor stubs 17:06 +25 Tom.Reding talk contribs ({{WikiProject Software}})
- diffhist m Category talk:Text editor stubs 17:05 −26 Tom.Reding talk contribs (Undid revision 1266649496 by Tom.Reding (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist m Microsoft Edge (series of web browsers) 16:57 +28 Winderz IoT talk contribs (Add category)
- diffhist 15.ai 16:52 +6 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Bolden per WP:RPLA.)
- diffhist m 15.ai 16:50 +19 GregariousMadness talk contribs (→Development, release, and operation)
- diffhist m Category talk:Text editor stubs 16:31 +26 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Biography}}) Tags: AWB Reverted
- diffhist 15.ai 16:27 0 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Undid revision 1266648552 by GregariousMadness (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist 15.ai 16:27 0 GregariousMadness talk contribs (→Development, release, and operation) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist 15.ai 16:26 0 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Moved the multi-speaker image below for better balance.)
- diffhist 15.ai 16:25 +1 GregariousMadness talk contribs (Fixed citations.)
- diffhist m Draft talk:Comparison of portable media players 16:21 +21 Zinnober9 talk contribs (Fixed Lint errors on this page (stripped tags))
- diffhist Appin (company) 16:18 +1,256 HARRISONSST talk contribs (Added information on Chicago Mercantile Exchange's World Intellectual Property Organization complaint regarding a phishing attack.)
- Deletion log 16:18 UtherSRG talk contribs deleted redirect Draft talk:Comparison of portable media players by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Talk:Comparison of portable media players)
- Deletion log 16:18 UtherSRG talk contribs deleted redirect Draft:Comparison of portable media players by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Comparison of portable media players)
- Move log 16:17 UtherSRG talk contribs moved page Draft talk:Comparison of portable media players to Talk:Comparison of portable media players (missed some histories - so temp move back)
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,