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
28 December 2024
- diffhist Template:Extended reality 06:08 −17 67.209.130.93 talk (Undid revision 1265699200 by 67.209.130.93 (talk) maybe, their company is not an XR company yet, but Unreal Engine is indeed an XR tool) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Template:Extended reality 06:06 +17 67.209.130.93 talk (Epic Games) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Unreal Engine 06:04 +130 67.209.130.93 talk (Navbox container, XR template, virtual reality works category)
- diffhist Talk:OpenAI o3 06:00 +645 Alenoach talk contribs (→GPQA Diamond: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Blue screen of death 05:47 +21 Paowee talk contribs (→Details: Updated BSOD screenshots. Image 1: Higher quality and crashed while Windows was running (not from installer media), Image 2: PC has been replaced with Device.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Magic: The Gathering 04:42 +244 Wikiman50004 talk contribs (Added a citation to a statement where "players are considered as planeswalkers") Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Portable media player 04:12 −42 Explicit talk contribs (Removing link(s) undefined (XFDcloser))
- diffhist m Zune 80, 120 04:12 −43 Explicit talk contribs (Removing link(s) undefined (XFDcloser))
- diffhist m Template:Media player software 04:12 −65 Explicit talk contribs (Removing link(s) undefined (XFDcloser))
- diffhist m Universally unique identifier 03:32 +3,580 KNHaw talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2804:8BCC:4A00:1600:74D6:26B:2561:7B44 (talk) to last revision by Cadilakad) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Universally unique identifier 03:31 −3,580 2804:8bcc:4a00:1600:74d6:26b:2561:7b44 talk Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Artificial intelligence rhetoric 03:30 −27 DocWatson42 talk contribs (Performed minor cleanup.)
- diffhist Google Earth 02:40 −12 Morris80315436 talk contribs (Restoring revision 1264215925 by 2603:8000:7202:524:2CDA:CFB4:1921:DD27: test edits (RW 16.1)) Tags: RW Undo
- diffhist Blue screen of death 02:39 +18 Paowee talk contribs (→Details: Replaced the BSOD from Windows 11 with a PNG version. Also at 1024x768, the standard non-widescreen size of the error.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Google Earth 02:37 +4 49.186.12.213 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Google Earth 02:36 +8 49.186.12.213 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Template:CAD software 02:32 −29 Jerryobject talk contribs (Relationships clarify via: WP:REPEATLINK in same section deWP:LINK, term move to better place, WP:PUNCTuation add.)
- diffhist m OpenAI o3 02:17 −1 Dukese805 talk contribs (→History: clarify that this is not openai giving you an invitation, but rather a description of an invitation) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Media Research Center 01:19 −360 Chimatronx talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Template:Extended reality 00:52 +12 67.209.130.93 talk (Web3)
- diffhist m The Batman (film) 00:51 +27 KyleBYerrick talk contribs (→Sequel: 2027 delay ref)
- diffhist The Batman (film) 00:51 +432 KyleBYerrick talk contribs (→Citations: adding new ref for 2027 delay)
- diffhist m PHP 00:30 −144 Iiii I I I talk contribs (Reverted edit by TheTrueRavenReaper (talk) to last version by Opolito) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist m PHP 00:27 +144 TheTrueRavenReaper talk contribs (→Syntax changes and additions) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
27 December 2024
- diffhist BASIC 8 23:39 −30 2603:9001:5d03:bd0d:9195:a0fc:762e:31c4 talk (→The problem: Use of a monitor in 40 column mode did not necessarily require a composite signal. Often, separate chroma/luma signals were used.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist DC Studios 23:39 0 114.142.248.155 talk (→Produced by DC Studios)
- diffhist Regular expression 23:34 −583 Monger talk contribs (→External links: Remove outdated standards replaced by ISO 9945:2009, update to new edition of Open Group spec, and add link to high quality open source list of resources)
- diffhist m Xiph.Org Foundation 23:13 +35 Laterthanyouthink talk contribs (fix link)
- diffhist Arch Linux 23:06 −12 Paowee talk contribs (Use KDE Plasma for screenshot. This is what the script uses by default + the other screenshot has a modified wallpaper.) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Web cache 23:03 +3,359 ChrisWx talk contribs (Reverted 2 edits by 2806:310:31:BE35:A9C6:51B7:D278:93AC (talk): Unexplained removal) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Web cache 23:03 −1,718 2806:310:31:be35:a9c6:51b7:d278:93ac talk (→HTTP options: Protocolo) Tags: Reverted references removed Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Web cache 23:01 −1,641 2806:310:31:be35:a9c6:51b7:d278:93ac talk (→Forward and reverse: Kookies) Tags: Reverted references removed Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Adult Swim 22:57 +7 75.128.129.60 talk (→Checkered Past: Now Courage the Cowardly Dog has been back on Checkered Past since this December 26th.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m The Guardian 22:53 −15 Shinkolobwe talk contribs (→Ownership and finances: minor copyedit and format)
- diffhist Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet 22:50 −27 Dudek1337 talk contribs (→The Internet: removed good guy greg, not related to CS)
- diffhist m Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet 22:50 +44 Dudek1337 talk contribs (→Programming)
- diffhist The Guardian 22:44 0 Shinkolobwe talk contribs (→Received: Reference title format: ALL CAPS → Title Case)
- diffhist IBM Z 22:30 +231 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Architecture: Use citation template. Use the Wayback Machine for a dead link. (Note: it had a title, so it wasn't a bare URL, even if it wasn't using a citation template.))
- diffhist Reserved word 22:30 −276 Murray Langton talk contribs (→top: rewrite lead)
- diffhist Template:Extended reality 22:29 +38 67.209.130.93 talk (Universal Scene Description)
- diffhist Keyboard layout 22:08 +13 Withre talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Virtualization 21:31 +329 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Desktop virtualization: Use citation templates. Fix a link. Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.)
- diffhist m Code refactoring 20:30 0 Nyq talk contribs (lc per MOS:EXPABBR and MOS:SECTIONCAPS) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist The New Republic 20:11 −3 75.148.80.41 talk (Added links) Tags: canned edit summary Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
- diffhist Max (streaming service) 19:36 −654 King10 talk contribs (the sources confirm only launch in UK and Ireland and the rest is not decided https://deadline.com/2024/12/amazon-max-in-uk-germany-and-italy-after-skys-hbo-output-deals-expire-warner-bros-discoverys-jb-perrette-says-1236193072/)
- diffhist IBM Z 19:29 +20 Hexware talk contribs (→Architecture) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m LinkedIn 19:18 +8 NooNVentoo talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Universally unique identifier 19:10 +115 Cadilakad talk contribs (Explain the mixed-endian appearance more clearly)
- diffhist Plan 9 from Bell Labs 18:46 0 102.221.68.5 talk (Use a semicolon to separate phrases or clauses that already have commas)
- diffhist m Demoscene 18:28 +25 Tassedethe talk contribs (Disambiguate Adam Fielding to Adam Fielding (musician) using popups)
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)