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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)
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
22 January 2025
- diffhist Nokta (Moldova) 21:16 −8 Super Dromaeosaurus talk contribs Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist m Template:Latest preview software release/MediaMonkey 21:07 +242 Winderz IoT talk contribs (Version update)
- diffhist m Digital technologies and environmental sustainability 19:10 0 Davemck talk contribs (Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups)
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 18:57 +3,103 Darkskynet talk contribs (Added information about the accomplishments of the USDS using reference material which has been thusly cited.)
- diffhist Draft:Manatal 18:37 −42 Fancy Refrigerator talk contribs (Declining submission: corp - Submission is about a company or organization not yet shown to meet notability guidelines and v - Submission is improperly sourced (AFCH))
- diffhist Digital technologies and environmental sustainability 16:52 +319 Selfstudier talk contribs (→top: Twin transition, wls + ref)
- diffhist Digital technologies and environmental sustainability 16:49 +323 Selfstudier talk contribs (→References: +Bib)
- diffhist Draft:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 16:34 +24 Sohom Datta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Draft:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 16:19 0 Sohom Datta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Draft:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 16:09 +17 Sohom Datta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 14:42 −19 Adolphus79 talk contribs (→As U.S. Digital Service: overlinking..)
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 14:41 −6 Adolphus79 talk contribs (→As U.S. Digital Service: prose, spacing...)
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 14:37 −1 Adolphus79 talk contribs (spacing...)
- diffhist Template:Latest stable software release/Dolphin Browser 12:45 +278 Gonnym talk contribs (Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 January 22#Template:Latest stable software release/Dolphin Browser.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Template:Latest preview software release/Comodo Dragon 12:43 +276 Gonnym talk contribs (Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 January 22#Template:Latest preview software release/Comodo Dragon.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 12:25 +222 Curb Safe Charmer talk contribs (→top: rvt presumed accidental removal of short title and hatnote) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m AlvaDesc 11:08 +47 Apeoperaio talk contribs
- diffhist Draft:Edtraa 11:00 +622 Bonadea talk contribs (Rejecting submission: n - Topic is not notable (AFCH))
- diffhist m AlvaDesc 10:29 +30 Rodw talk contribs (Disambiguating links to Python (link changed to Python (programming language)) using DisamAssist.)
- diffhist AlvaDesc 10:00 +4 Apeoperaio talk contribs
- diffhist m AlvaDesc 09:59 0 Apeoperaio talk contribs
- diffhist m AlvaDesc 09:59 +22 Apeoperaio talk contribs (added screenshot)
- diffhist Draft talk:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 09:26 +1,514 David Chisnall talk contribs
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 09:02 +86 Toughtofu talk contribs (Citation added) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 07:24 +612 Pundit talk contribs (→Do we actually need a better source for [1]?) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Shapr3D 06:57 +6 Wikideas1 talk contribs (Image added)
- diffhist Shapr3D 06:53 +60 Wikideas1 talk contribs (Image added)
- diffhist Draft:Edtraa 05:54 +63 AashishRai201 talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Draft:Edtraa 05:54 +1,630 AashishRai201 talk contribs (Changed the promotional langugae) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 05:52 −3 John Broughton talk contribs (→top: reassessing as "C" class)
- diffhist Draft talk:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 04:58 +252 Semitones talk contribs (→WIP discussion: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App talk topic
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 03:35 +268 Oxiewrites talk contribs (Removed promotional language in history section. Added Colorado Digital Service.) Tags: COI template removed Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Draft talk:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:34 +453 Sohom Datta talk contribs (+)
- diffhist Draft:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:26 +5 Sohom Datta talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Talk:IP load tester 03:10 −51 TAnthony talk contribs (consolidate duplicate WikiProject banners)
- diffhist Draft:Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 02:49 −38 Mike Linksvayer talk contribs (add diagram, fix or add a few wikilinks, remove a phrase that needs support and should be mentioned in memory safety if there is, first pass at making history section less list-like) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 01:45 +468 Cloaker416 talk contribs (→Do we actually need a better source for [1]?: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist m United States DOGE Service 00:13 −5 NotADev talk contribs (minor error)
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 00:12 +213 NotADev talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 00:08 +516 Max1298 talk contribs (→Promotional marker: Reply) Tag: Reply
- Deletion log 00:00 Explicit talk contribs deleted page File talk:Fantasy Grounds icon.png (G8: Talk page of deleted page "File:Fantasy Grounds icon.png") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 00:00 Explicit talk contribs deleted page File:Fantasy Grounds icon.png (F5: Unused non-free media file) Tag: Twinkle
21 January 2025
- diffhist m R/BreadStapledToTrees 23:58 +4 MateoFrayo talk contribs (clarity) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Talk:Marcus Hutchins 23:53 +2 Queen of Hearts talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Biography, Computing (Rater))
- diffhist R/BreadStapledToTrees 23:53 +28 DocWatson42 talk contribs (→History: Performed cleanup.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 23:51 +652 198.187.154.2 talk (→Promotional marker)
- diffhist R/BreadStapledToTrees 23:51 −2 DocWatson42 talk contribs (→See also: Changed a spaced em dash to an unspaced em dash.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:United States DOGE Service 23:50 +317 198.187.154.2 talk (→Promotional marker: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist United States DOGE Service 23:47 +62 198.187.154.2 talk (this feels very much like a promotional article in its history, please change if this is incorrect!)
- diffhist R/BreadStapledToTrees 23:47 −19 2402:e000:416:8151:ceff:88fd:5b80:375 talk (Touch and hold a clip to pin it. Unpinned clips will be deleted after 1 hour.) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
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.
Bearian (talk) 21:09, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- WP:NOTCLEANUP. Please do a Scholar and Books search before taking this to WP:AFD. It appears to be a notable topic. ~Kvng (talk) 19:12, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Virtual reality pioneers has been nominated for discussion
[edit]Category:Virtual reality pioneers has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Itanium 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) 20:41, 20 January 2025 (UTC)