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Descendant project parameters

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)[reply]

Template:JavaScript and Template:ECMAScript merge proposal

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central#Requested move 16 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central#Requested move 16 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Reading Beans 12:02, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems 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. Z1720 (talk) 20:38, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Neuromorphic engineering#Requested move 24 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Neuromorphic engineering#Requested move 24 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Twitter#Requested move 25 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Twitter#Requested move 25 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 17:31, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk#Requested move 1 September 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk#Requested move 1 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 03:05, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Arrest of Pavel Durov#Requested move 28 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Arrest of Pavel Durov#Requested move 28 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 05:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

iMac G4 at Peer review

Hey everyone, comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Peer review/IMac G4/archive1. Would appreciate technical and non-techy eyes on it. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 11:43, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Wi-Fi 6#Requested move 29 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Wi-Fi 6#Requested move 29 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 18:38, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New source for IBM System/23 Datamaster, also requesting help

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Oracle Cerner#Requested move 19 September 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Oracle Cerner#Requested move 19 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 ^{[𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺]} 03:18, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested move 19 September 2024

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)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Image, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
_{Delivered by — MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 21 October 2024 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team}[reply]

Good article reassessment for 15.ai

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)[reply]

Fixing watchlist

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

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

29 November 2024

diffhist Manosphere 19:34 +32 Narsil talk contribs (→Jargon: Added “TRP”, used as abbreviation for “taking the red pill”—I’ve seen and been confused by this TLA online) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Object REXX 17:12 +196 Chatul talk contribs (list directives)
diffhist 8-N-1 15:01 −154 Kvng talk contribs (has two sources. combine rep ref.)
diffhist Draft:Domain Name Transfers 09:57 +147 Wikishovel talk contribs (Commenting on submission (AFCH))
diffhist 8-N-1 07:31 −44 Викидим talk contribs (→top: found a better target)
diffhist Object REXX 06:37 +240 Dylwi talk contribs (Some fixes + more on roo!) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist 8-N-1 05:53 +129 Викидим talk contribs (→top: merge proposal)
diffhist Session hijacking 04:13 −1 Quarl talk contribs (fix another ref) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist m Session hijacking 04:12 +59 Quarl talk contribs (Fixing reference error raised by Qwerfjkl (bot))
diffhist m Session hijacking 02:51 −148 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (Merge done)
diffhist 8-N-1 01:28 +274 Graeme Bartlett talk contribs (two refs for Kvng)
diffhist 8-N-1 01:26 −322 Graeme Bartlett talk contribs (Kvng wants this back)
Deletion log 01:26 Graeme Bartlett talk contribs undeleted page 8-N-1 (51 revisions) (requested by Kvng)
Deletion log 01:26 Graeme Bartlett talk contribs undeleted page Talk:8-N-1 (9 revisions) (Undeleted together with the associated page with reason: requested by Kvng)
diffhist Draft:Discordzik 00:21 +624 MolecularPilot talk contribs (Declining submission: lang - Submission is not in English (AFCH))
diffhist Draft:Discordzik 00:13 +160 Overpll talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
diffhist N Draft talk:Discordzik 00:13 +80 Overpll talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
diffhist N Draft:Discordzik 00:10 +1,408 Overpll talk contribs (-- Creation for Discordzik.pl using WP:Article wizard --)

28 November 2024

diffhist m Aveva 23:28 +1 Zxcvbnm talk contribs (Disambiguating links to Medusa (disambiguation) (link changed to MEDUSA4) using DisamAssist.)
diffhist MEDUSA4 23:24 +11 Zxcvbnm talk contribs (Fix lede to account for move) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist MEDUSA4 23:23 −77 Zxcvbnm talk contribs (Remove hatnote after move) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Medusa (disambiguation) 23:22 +1 Zxcvbnm talk contribs (→Other uses: Fix link) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist MEDUSA 23:22 +48 Zxcvbnm talk contribs (←Changed redirect target from MEDUSA to Medusa (disambiguation)) Tags: Redirect target changed Visual edit Disambiguation links added
Move log 23:22 Zxcvbnm talk contribs moved page MEDUSA to MEDUSA4 without leaving a redirect (Move to what appears to have been the WP:COMMONNAME for a while)
Move log 23:22 Zxcvbnm talk contribs moved page MEDUSA4 to Draft:Move/MEDUSA without leaving a redirect (Round-robin history swap step 1 using pageswap)
diffhist N File talk:Webpage banner logo of the Council of Khalistan.jpg 23:10 +13 211.234.192.20 talk (←Created page with '{{WPWEBSITE}}') Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Aldus Corporation 23:06 −1 Wikchard talk contribs (punctuation)
diffhist Draft:LensKit 23:06 −89 Keith D talk contribs (Fix cite date error) Tag: AWB
diffhist m Avalanche (blockchain platform) 23:05 +33 Vladtranslator talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Avalanche (blockchain platform) 23:00 −7,219 Vladtranslator talk contribs (Modification on description and removal of all Design section for being too technical. Finish editing later.) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist N File talk:Zoner Photo Studio (logo).gif 22:54 +14 211.234.192.20 talk (←Created page with '{{WPSOFTWARE}}') Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Epic Systems 22:29 −151 Gelasin talk contribs (Reverting edit(s) by 173.248.16.89 (talk) to rev. 1259341936 by 636Buster: Unnecessary or inappropriate external links (UV 0.1.6)) Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
diffhist Epic Systems 22:29 +151 173.248.16.89 talk (To visit) Tag: Reverted
diffhist m Avalanche (blockchain platform) 22:23 −8 Vladtranslator talk contribs (minor changes) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist m Dramacool 20:55 +25 Rodw talk contribs (Disambiguating links to Viki (link changed to Viki (streaming service)) using DisamAssist.)
diffhist Draft:Domain Name Transfers 20:43 −357 KylieTastic talk contribs (Filled in 0 bare reference(s) with reFill 2)
diffhist Object REXX 20:37 +2,340 Dylwi talk contribs (Restructuring and addition of Routine & Package) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Session hijacking 20:28 −17 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: fmt) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Session hijacking 20:27 +110 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: affected sites) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Session hijacking 20:24 −1,181 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: merge/ed/remove obsolete) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Session hijacking 20:21 +4,032 Quarl talk contribs (merge Cookiemonster attack into Session hijacking) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Cookiemonster attack 20:21 −4,376 Quarl talk contribs (merge Cookiemonster attack into Session hijacking) Tags: New redirect 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist N Draft talk:Domain Name Transfers 19:54 +82 Augustin Ternoir talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
diffhist Draft:Domain Name Transfers 19:54 +229 Augustin Ternoir talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
diffhist N Draft:Domain Name Transfers 19:52 +2,458 Augustin Ternoir talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist m Category talk:Australian erotica and pornography websites 18:45 +103 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Internet}}{{WP Computing|websites=yes}}{{WP Sexology and sexuality}}) Tag: AWB
Page curation log 18:45 Hey man im josh talk contribs marked the redirect Trust International as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
diffhist m Category talk:Gay male pornography websites 18:33 +66 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Internet}}{{WP Computing|websites=yes}}; cleanup) Tag: AWB
diffhist List of information retrieval libraries 18:08 −942 Quarl talk contribs (merge List of information retrieval libraries into Information retrieval) Tags: New redirect 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Information retrieval 18:08 +116 Quarl talk contribs (merge List of information retrieval libraries into Information retrieval) Tags: 2017 wikitext editor Disambiguation links added

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Requested merge at Talk:BitTorrent#Requested merge 30 September 2024

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)[reply]

History of programming languages as a list class article

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)[reply]

I've updated the rating to C class. ~Kvng (talk) 15:04, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Information Security

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Meta Platforms#Requested move 29 October 2024

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:.zip (top-level domain)#Requested move 19 November 2024

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Identity management#Requested move 12 November 2024

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Gapo#Requested move 10 November 2024

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)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:CloudPets#Requested move 18 November 2024

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)[reply]

Making spoken Wikipedia audios (it may double Wikipedia reads & they're useful)

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!

Example: Linux

Prototyperspective (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest we can maximize the impact of this effort by working popular pages first. ~Kvng (talk) 15:51, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]