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
13 January 2025
- diffhist m Talk:GeForce 50 series 01:23 −1 WednesdayProblems talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:GeForce 50 series 01:22 +825 WednesdayProblems talk contribs (→Requested move 10 January 2025: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Longform.org 00:20 +12 Sdkb talk contribs (→Episodes: link)
- diffhist Longform.org 00:19 +300 Sdkb talk contribs (→Episodes: more dab fixes)
12 January 2025
- diffhist Longform.org 23:57 +25 Sdkb talk contribs (paul ford fix)
- diffhist Longform.org 23:55 −31 Sdkb talk contribs (resolved (I think))
- diffhist Longform.org 23:54 +190 Sdkb talk contribs (→Episodes: more formatting/linking adjustments)
- diffhist m Longform.org 23:48 0 Sdkb talk contribs (→Episodes: fix link) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist m 4C Entity 23:44 +33 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (+{{Crypto-stub}}, +{{Compu-stub}} using StubSorter)
- diffhist Talk:4C Entity 23:43 +21 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Dedicated short-range communications 23:12 −3 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Dedicated short-range communications 23:12 −36 Widefox talk contribs (→top: fix hatnote to dab) Tag: Disambiguation links added
- diffhist m Dedicated short-range communications 23:10 +6 Widefox talk contribs (→top: bold alt article name per MOS)
- diffhist m Longform.org 21:55 +44 Cnwilliams talk contribs (v2.05 - Repaired 2 links to disambiguation pages - (You can help) - Jim Nelson, Sarah Marshall, 13 to be fixed - Andy Ward, Chris Jones, Ellis Jones, Gary Smith, Joe Bernstein, Jonathan Goldstein, Joseph Cox, Kevin Kelly, Mark Adams, Mary Childs, Pablo Torre, Sam Knight, Tom Wright) Tag: WPCleaner
- diffhist m Longform.org 21:52 +740 Cnwilliams talk contribs (v2.05 - Repaired 27 links to disambiguation pages - (You can help) - Adam Davidson, Ariel Levy, Ben Anderson, Ben Smith, Chris Jackson, Connie Walker, David Epstein, David Kushner, David Samuels, Derek Thompson, Ellen Barry, Erik Larson, Jeff Sharlet, Josh Dean, Joshua Davis, Julia Turner, Ken Armstrong, Lewis Lapham, Margaret Sullivan, Matt Levine, Nathaniel Rich, Paige Williams, [[Robert Samue...) Tag: WPCleaner
- diffhist Category:Information technology in Azerbaijan 21:37 −16 2600:4041:57b1:3e00:c90b:69ff:76b6:8547 talk (Remove redundant category)
- diffhist Draft:Microsoft Office 2024 20:49 +333 CNMall41 talk contribs (Declining submission: v - Submission is improperly sourced (AFCH))
- diffhist Talk:Brian Fox (programmer) 20:10 +25 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Biography, Computing, +Linux, −Computer science (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Brian Fox (programmer) 20:09 +27 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Biography, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist Template:IEEE software documents 19:51 −16 Funandtrvl talk contribs (updated links)
- Page curation log 19:44 Lithopsian talk contribs marked the redirect Tinychat as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist Mazafaka 18:05 +125 Pppery talk contribs ({{subst:PROD|No evidence of notability}})
- diffhist Tinychat 17:31 −193 Heythereimaguy talk contribs (rm article categories, see WP:REDIRECT) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Tinychat 17:28 +32 Heythereimaguy talk contribs (added redirect reason) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Tinychat 17:25 +42 Heythereimaguy talk contribs (Adding local short description: "Online chat website", overriding Wikidata description "online chat website") Tag: Shortdesc helper
- diffhist Talk:Tinychat 17:25 +3 Badbluebus talk contribs
- Deletion log 17:22 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:Landscape Express (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Landscape Express") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 17:22 Liz talk contribs deleted page Landscape Express (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails WP:GNG. I didn't find any reliable significant coverage for this software.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Tinychat 17:21 −4,668 Badbluebus talk contribs (←Redirected page to Paltalk) Tags: New redirect Visual edit
- diffhist GeForce 50 series 16:37 −6 109.86.217.30 talk (→Desktop: →table: dupe)
- diffhist GeForce 50 series 16:19 −249 109.86.217.30 talk (→Desktop: →table: make in consistense with $(dollar)-sign edit at 17:00, 11 January 2025 by Maxeto0910) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Turing test 15:20 +532 Aadamwaheed talk contribs (Updated section to reflect that the Loebner Prize is now defunct) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Draft:Abaqus FEA 15:19 +26 Wikishovel talk contribs (Declining submission: redirect - Submission is a redirect request (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:Abaqus FEA 15:12 +225 Gaolezhe talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft talk:Abaqus FEA 15:12 +24 Gaolezhe talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft:Abaqus FEA 15:10 +84 Gaolezhe talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Talk:National User Facility 14:50 +39 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Computing, +Energy (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:National User Facility 14:49 +260 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, United States, +Science, +Physics, +Computing, +Materials, +Biology (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 14:46 +141 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Computing, California, +Science (Low), +Technology (Rater))
- diffhist m National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 14:35 +8 Widefox talk contribs (→top: def acro per MOS, links)
- Deletion log 14:18 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Talk:Probert Encyclopaedia (G8: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Probert Encyclopaedia closed as soft delete (XFDcloser))
- Deletion log 14:18 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Probert Encyclopaedia (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Probert Encyclopaedia (XFDcloser))
- Page curation log 13:43 Ozzie10aaaa talk contribs marked the redirect Electronika 60 as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist m GeForce 50 series 12:59 −7 Pt18378193 talk contribs (Handle sparsity correctly) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Digital Services Act 12:57 +461 Marc Schroeder talk contribs
- diffhist List of Compact Cassette tape data storage formats 12:35 +884 Maury Markowitz talk contribs (→Apple) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Category:Haitian news websites 10:46 +48 2600:4041:57b1:3e00:c90b:69ff:76b6:8547 talk (Adjust)
- Deletion log 10:35 Jendorei talk contribs deleted redirect Talk:Elektronika 60 by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Talk:Electronika 60)
- Move log 10:35 Jendorei talk contribs moved page Electronika 60 to Elektronika 60 over redirect (Misspelled)
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.