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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: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

30 November 2024

diffhist Epson MX-80 15:38 +7 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (→Other models)
diffhist Draft:Domain Name Transfers 11:17 +225 Greenman talk contribs (Declining submission: mergeto - Submission should be merged into an existing article (AFCH))
diffhist (a,b)-tree 08:12 +53 Christian75 talk contribs (Category:Search trees)
diffhist List of artificial intelligence companies 07:03 +26 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (→References: {{Companies by industry}})
diffhist m Object REXX 05:13 −28 Dylwi talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
diffhist LeoCAD 05:08 −23 TolBot talk contribs (Task 4: Remove Template:Draft categories from mainspace article)
diffhist m Epson MX-80 05:02 +11 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (→Sales and reception)
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:50 +261 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:47 0 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:39 +6 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (new key for Category:Epson: "MX-80" using HotCat)
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:36 −3 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (Moving from Category:Impact matrix printers to Category:Dot matrix printers Common name by far; "Impact matrix printer" is used an order of magnitude less per Google Books+Search using Cat-a-lot)
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:23 +147 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (→Other models)
diffhist Epson MX-80 04:16 +1,790 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
diffhist Epson MX-80 03:47 +104 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
diffhist Epson MX-80 03:44 +1,026 DigitalIceAge talk contribs
diffhist List of artificial intelligence companies 00:20 −13 Imcdc talk contribs (Undid revision 1260284050 by KunalKore (talk) Primary business is in hardware) Tag: Undo
Deletion log 00:00 Explicit talk contribs deleted page File talk:Zoner Photo Studio (logo).gif (G8: Talk page of deleted page "File:Zoner Photo Studio (logo).gif") Tag: Twinkle
Deletion log 00:00 Explicit talk contribs deleted page File:Zoner Photo Studio (logo).gif (F5: Unused non-free media file) Tag: Twinkle

29 November 2024

diffhist TK82C 23:46 −2 4throck talk contribs (→General information) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist TK80 23:46 −2 4throck talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
Deletion log 23:22 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:PyQuante (G8: Talk page of deleted page "PyQuante") Tag: Twinkle
Deletion log 23:22 Liz talk contribs deleted page PyQuante (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails WP: GNG. I could not find sufficient sourcing from my WP: BEFORE to support notability. This page has been tagged for citation issues for six years and was created by someone who claimed on the Talk page to have been the author of this software.) Tag: Twinkle
diffhist List of artificial intelligence companies 22:40 +13 KunalKore talk contribs (Add Nvidia because isn't not only a GPU Company but it also provide AI APIs and Create new AI Models.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
diffhist List of artificial intelligence companies 22:37 +34 KunalKore talk contribs (Add Safe Superintelligence Inc.) Tag: Visual edit
Deletion log 22:32 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry") Tag: Twinkle
Deletion log 22:32 Liz talk contribs deleted page Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails WP: GNG. I found some sources about computational mass spectometry generally, but I could not find any sources about that would support this subject's notability.) Tag: Twinkle
diffhist Talk:Synthesis Toolkit 22:15 +49 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TK82C 22:14 +51 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Teletex 22:14 +38 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:ThinkSystem 22:14 +44 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Tagged queuing 22:14 +45 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:T2 Temporal Prover 22:13 +37 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TheDraw 22:13 +51 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TestStand 22:12 +49 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TouchDesigner 22:12 +39 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TI-BASIC 22:12 +46 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:System virtual machine 22:09 +38 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:T-Kernel 22:09 +46 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TK80 22:08 +50 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Ubercode 22:07 +50 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Udhcpc 22:07 +44 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:UBot Studio 22:06 +37 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:TRS-80 Model 4 22:06 +46 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Winnie (website) 22:05 +49 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Websites (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Waydroid 22:04 +88 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): +banner shell (Start), +Software (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Web Services for Devices 22:04 +57 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Microsoft Windows (Rater))
diffhist Talk:Wireless local loop 22:03 +38 Christian75 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing (Rater))
Deletion log 21:43 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:EPSILON (programming language) (G8: Talk page of deleted page "EPSILON (programming language)") Tag: Twinkle
Deletion log 21:43 Liz talk contribs deleted page EPSILON (programming language) (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails WP: GNG. I cannot find any sources to establish notability. Google Scholar has few citations of the paper referenced in the article.) Tag: Twinkle
Deletion log 21:43 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:EFF-Austin (G8: Talk page of deleted page "EFF-Austin") Tag: Twinkle

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]

Requested move at Talk:Gateway, Inc.#Requested move 20 November 2024

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)[reply]