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Hello and welcome to WikiProject Software, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of software articles. If you are interested please feel free to add your name to our list of participants.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Goals and scopeGoalsThe project aims primarily to improve:
ScopeWikiProject Software is a collection of pages devoted to the management of computer software articles on Wikipedia. We aim to help set up standards of organization and presentation for articles on:
Things to keep in mindThere are a few things that you should try to keep in mind while editing software articles. AudienceOne of the primary goals of this project is to make computer science articles accessible, so you should make an effort to explain any jargon. Conventions
ReferencesTry to ensure that every computer science article includes at least a few relevant references, and direct citations for anything that could be considered controversial. Wikipedia articles cannot be a substitute for a textbook (that is what Wikibooks is for), and references can give readers some idea of where they should go if they need more information than the article can provide. Just as important, providing further reading enables other editors to verify and to extend the given information, as well as to discuss the quality of a particular source. You can find more information on citations and references, as well as several examples for how the cited literature should look, in the style guide on citations. Wikipedia's List of publications in computer science can be a good source of references and citations for computer science articles, as can Citeseer and Google Scholar. |
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Server host | irc.libera.chat |
Port | 6697 |
channel | #wikipedia-en-software |
quick access | https://web.libera.chat/?#wikipedia-en-software |
Participants of this WikiProject can add this Userbox to their User page:
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To add the Userbox insert the following to the your user page:
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Software:
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To tag an article insert the following to the top of the discussion page of the article:
{{WikiProject Software|class=|importance=}}
Stubs should additionally be tagged with {{software-stub}}
at the bottom of the article.
Anyone can assess articles (regardless of membership to the WikiProject) by adding or editing the class
and importance
parameters to the {{WikiProject Software|class=|importance=|computing-importance=}} template. The template is found on talk pages.
Software articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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5 | 5 | |||||
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1 | 10 | 16 | 32 | 5 | 64 | |
B | 22 | 78 | 125 | 133 | 124 | 482 | |
C | 30 | 180 | 584 | 1,402 | 604 | 2,800 | |
Start | 5 | 106 | 549 | 3,543 | 1 | 2,486 | 6,690 |
Stub | 3 | 100 | 1,631 | 1 | 2,468 | 4,203 | |
List | 4 | 18 | 72 | 199 | 4 | 180 | 477 |
Draft | 2 | 339 | 341 | ||||
Category | 1 | 2,230 | 2,231 | ||||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 26 | 28 | |||
File | 3,003 | 3,003 | |||||
Portal | 3 | 3 | |||||
Project | 1 | 1 | 24 | 26 | |||
Redirect | 1 | 7 | 27 | 184 | 1,839 | 2,058 | |
Template | 3 | 1 | 1,204 | 1,208 | |||
NA | 6 | 4 | 10 | ||||
Assessed | 63 | 402 | 1,478 | 7,141 | 8,678 | 5,867 | 23,629 |
Unassessed | 26 | 1,495 | 1,521 | ||||
Total | 63 | 402 | 1,478 | 7,167 | 8,678 | 7,362 | 25,150 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 71,474 | Ω = 5.02 |
The quality scale is the WikiProject computing scale.
The B-Class criteria are: (1) referenced; (2) coverage; (3) structure; (4) grammar; (5) supporting materials; (6) accessible language.
Importance | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Core articles which are a "must have" for Wikiproject Software. High-traffic articles which many people outside of computer software will already have a good knowledge of. |
Mac OS, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows |
High | Most people interested in software will be familiar with the topic, and the article gives context to a number of other information software articles. Is mentioned by many books and academic papers, and discussed in detail in more than one. | Adobe Acrobat, Avast!, iOS |
Mid | Known to many people interested in software, even if not in detail. | Adobe Flash Player, Google Voice, RAID |
Low | More specific and specialized content known only to some people interested in software. Most individuals, standards and software projects will be low importance unless they are well known or have high adoption. |
DVD Studio Pro, Defraggler, EJay |
One of the important activities of this project is to manage the list of Categories related to Computer Software.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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