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See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#All_GFDL_images_are_software.21. Cross-posting here because that WikiProject sees little participation. Pcap ping 19:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I've started a RfC on my proposal for dealing with one of these articles, where the discussion has been particularly heated. My proposal is not specific to that kind of software, so hopefully the result of the discussion can be used as a precedent for all similar articles. Please participate at Talk:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients#A way forward. Pcap ping 15:10, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
For those not following the wiki dramaz, there's a plan in the works to prod all unreferenced BLPs (check your watch list notice for a pointer). Below is an intersection of that category with the Category:Computer programmers, using this tool. The usual battle plan is to strike them out as you reference them. Some may be incorrectly tagged.
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Alvy_Ray_Smith:
Computer_graphics_professionals;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Andrey_"KranK"_Kuzmin:
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Questionable Notability. Sent to AfD.
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Antony_Crowther:
British_computer_programmers,
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Birger_Møller-Pedersen:
Computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Questionable Notability. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate. No Contentious Material.
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Bob_Scheifler:
Free_software_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate on Software Page. Citation Ported Over. No Contentious Material.
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Bob_Shannon:
Computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Questionable Notability. Sent to AfD.
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Bob_Smith_(Atari):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Non-Notable. Redirected to main article.
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Bob_Sproull:
Computer_graphics_professionals,
Computer_graphics_researchers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Brian_Fox:
Free_software_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Daniel_Kottke:
American_computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Sean_Barrett_(programmer):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Nonnotable, no contentious material.
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Thomas_Knoll:
Computer_graphics_professionals;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate. No Contentious Material.
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Tim_Anderson_(Zork):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate on Software Page. Citation Ported Over. No Contentious Material.
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Wayne_Bell_(computer_specialist):
American_computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Questionable Notability. Mistag.
Regards. Pcap ping 13:36, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
This is a disjoint category, but some articles may be already included in the above list if they're categorized in both:
Pcap ping 22:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The information on wiki, about me, which was originally input by one of our 7 children was disputed in many ways over the years since it's input. I no longer claim to be father of the BBS as it is, or was. I would like to mention that Kathy Yakal, one of the people who wrote about me was hard for me to look up after all these years and she is the one who put quote marks around her words.......I think she was signed in under her name...she was and still is an editor of computer magazines...the first being Computes Gazette and Computer magazine. She is fairly easy now for anyone to get a hold of if need be. I do still have a copy of the issue in question published in 1984.
I am now 64 years old. I wrote the program in 1982. I did in deed sell over 4000 copies not 400. Up until that point in my life I was disabled....and this program brought me out of it and into business..I had one of the first computer stores in Northern California.....all based on the monies I made from Electric Magazine. I am proud of what I did....and I am proud that one of my children decided to enter it into Wiki.
When I was young and writing this program...actually I was about 37......I was a happy father and happy for my success. It saddens me that some of the younger generation see reason to dispute what I have done...I am TRULY saddened. I have been very proud of my addition to Wiki...but if it goes....know this...I will accept it...but it will hurt me....My wife and I have taught and raised 7 kids, many of whom are now professionals in their own fields...5 college graduates....I am sure they too shall share in my emotional pain.
Electric Magazine brought me from a ill-nobody to a big (my word) somebody, recognized by very many when only a handful owned computers.....I humbly request of you not to delete it....
Thank you for your time and consideration. Bob Shannon Cheney, Washington —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eqshannon ( talk • contribs) 05:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC) Quick Reply:
(Can someone else fill in relevant links to the policies that explain the above? I'm overdue for bed right now)
ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 07:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see more discussion of what appropriate sourcing for software projects should look like, something like Wikipedia:Reliable_source_examples and the 'see also' referencing guides listed there. I'm very concerned about the tenor of discussions, where I observe the Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions#Google_test used. I'll mention this at WP:WikiProject Computing and WP:WikiProject Software but wanted to mention it here as well, since the current list of AfD made me believe this is needed. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 21:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Well, it's difficult to list sources for something as vast as this, but the videogames wikiproject has guidelines, which give non-self-published reviews as reliable sources. See Wikipedia:VG/RS#List. Something like this can be done in task forces or similar sub-wikiprojects. Pcap ping 12:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:VG/RS#List seems like a good model. I particularly like that they have a custom search engine. Anybody else interested in talking this through? Pcap is right, "software" is too big a topic. So I think the first step would be to either choose a subtopic or maybe to think about the different types of articles that exist. A sourcing discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MUME got me thinking about this again. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 10:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello! One of my adoptees would like the members of this project to review an article he created on a mobile device managment platform. I have helped him some with grammar, but as it concerns a product I am not personally familiar with and thus not an expert on it, it would me most helpful if someone(s) from this project could give the article a look and see if it is ready for mainspace. Thank you for your time. The proposed article is at User:PCJain/sandbox. It gets some hits on Google News that could perhaps be helpful. Sincerely, -- A Nobody My talk 19:18, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
FYI, a bunch of X/11 Window Managers have been sent for deletion via AfD, see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2010_February_21
70.29.210.242 ( talk) 10:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Category:CNC, CAD, and CAM has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.210.242 ( talk) 06:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Category:FORTRAN programming language family has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.210.242 ( talk) 06:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Please, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (mathematics)#Source code and pseudocode. The problem is very important for future development of computer sci. articles. A consensus needs to be reached.-- Tim32 ( talk) 15:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello!
Help is needed. NanoZip is a novel file archiver in alpha state currently. Benchmarks show that it is better than any other archivers today. I think it worth to be mentioned in Wikipedia, but it is proposed that article is to be deleted. -- Varnav ( talk) 09:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Does this project maintain its own notability guidelines? The dwm and awesome deletion discussions inspired a chat about this at the recent LibrePlanet conference. – SJ + 07:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
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Are there some guidelines that distinguish between freeware/shareware/abandonware and discontinued/unmaintained/maintained? Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 April 20. Pcap ping 04:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an overhaul of the “Pixetell” article Pixetell that was previously posted and raised concerns among some reviewers. I am an employee of Ontier, the company that makes and sells Pixetell, which is an online communications software product. I value Wikipedia and understand the legitimate concerns about companies attempting to use Wikipedia for marketing purposes. My company wishes to have a presence on Wikipedia, one that meets the high standards of Wikipedia and strengthens it as a resource for objective information. I have made a point of reading through relevant policies, guidelines, and essays (such as WP:COI, WP:N, WP:V, and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest, as well as Opera (web browser) (as an FA about a software product). I have also sought out advice from long-time Wikipedians. Please take a look at my proposed replacement text, which I hope you will agree is an unbiased and thoroughly cited improvement. Dan Cook 23:54, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Article needs help determining historically important developments and criteria for establishing notability of software packages and apps. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 11:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
There is a content dispute on GNU ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - the problem is basically where and how to put the current usability status of GNU in the article lead. There is a long discussion between me and Cyclopia on the talk page about that and it seems we're unable to reach a compromise. Expert attention would help. Thanks. Yworo ( talk) 23:54, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about the development status of MuPAD at Talk:MuPAD, which people may be interested in. Yaris678 ( talk) 08:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Could I get some second opinions about Hamilton C shell? The only independent and reliable secondary source I see listed is this one by Dr. Dobb's Journal (not sure in which incarnation that source was in 1991). Other sources include a " personal website", a FAQ apparently produced by an individual, and a bunch of mailing list postings: [1], [2], [3], [4]. The other references are by the developer of this software, Nicole Hamilton, who is obviously not independent of the subject (just as an autobiography would not be an independent source in one of our biographical articles). I think this one Dr. Dobb's source would not confer notability under the general notability guideline (which is what seems to apply to software products), but I wanted to make sure I'm right about that before taking it to AFD.-- Chaser ( talk) 17:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
BTW, C_shell#Influence may contain some relevant assertions. There are no new independent sources, however.-- Chaser ( talk) 18:05, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any existing standards for the structure of software articles? Here's a recommendation for the structure of an article about a school, for example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines#Structure. And here's one for countries: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries#Structure and guidelines. And one for plays: Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Article Structure. It'd be great if we had guidelines like this for software. Matthew Simoneau ( talk) 13:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
The usage of alleyway is under discussion, see Talk:Alleyway#Requested_move -- 65.95.14.34 ( talk) 08:45, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Updating this article seems to have stalled. Here is a proposal to move forward. The Software Process and Product Quality Assurance group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are significant practitioners and authorities on SQA. They are well aware that SQA is a somewhat contentious subject and have offered to draft a neutral article on the current understanding and practice of SQA for Wikipedia. This may be a good way to move forward as they are a credible source without any commercial interests or biases towards or against standards (e.g. ISO) and methods. Before they expend effort on this, they would like to get some indication of interest from the community and if they would be accepted as a credible and neutral source of information on SQA. Dport ( talk) 19:04, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a list of recently deleted software articles? I want to know so that I can see if I can find sources and request their undeletion. Joe Chill ( talk) 22:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
It sounds like computer programming and software development fall under the scope of this project. Is that correct? If no one objects, I'd like to add those to the description of the scope. -- Pnm ( talk) 00:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Articles tagged using {{
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When assessing articles for the Software project, please consider the computing importance and tag accordingly. For articles which also have a {{
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This will help WP Computing in three ways:
UltraSurf, discussed in depth (along with the Global Internet Freedom Consortium) in Beiser, Vincent (October 2010), "Over, Under & Through: How Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall — And Evade the Cyberpolice", Wired, 18 (11): 178–186. Probably other sources out there too. Not my subject area, so I'm hoping someone better versed might be interested. Cheers, postdlf ( talk) 15:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
People may be interested in Talk:Software development process#Proposal to merge Software development methodology here v2. Yaris678 ( talk) 19:44, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I'd appreciate more input on this merge discussion. It began in 2006 and I'd like to get it closed, but there isn't consensus for a merge or a rationale for disambiguating the topics. -- Pnm ( talk) 18:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I would like to request editorial assistance in arriving at consensus on the appropriate state of the article Comparison of platform virtual machines. Please see the discussion so far. Psuedonym 03:54, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I just stumbled upon this unreferenced article. I'm not a software guy and don't edit in this area. Thought you all might know what do with it. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 08:12, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I just added a notability tag. Guy Macon ( talk) 21:47, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
ACCPAC has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 05:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate under consideration is the use in this table of the “ Hard disk drive” article of nomenclature such as “KiB”, “MiB”, and “GiB” to describe capacities. The governing guideline on MOSNUM is Quantities of bytes and bits. The quality of the discussion can be improved by broadening participation of the discussion. This will hopefully more fully achieve a consensus. Greg L ( talk) 17:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there any best practice for the number of software releases that should be show in the "latest release version" parameter of the {{ Infobox software}} template? I ask, because one editor is defending the display of four separate release version numbers at PostgreSQL. We have argued at Talk:PostgreSQL that only the current version of the latest release should be shown (which is after all what the parameter is named), as is currently the case in articles such as MySQL, Firefox, Joomla, Ubuntu (operating system) etc., all of which have multiple releases but he is having none of it. In an attempt to gain some consensus I would appreciate opinions from members of this project (who are very welcome to shoot me down if I'm the one who is wrong). -- Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator ( Talk) 20:11, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
I am writing on behalf of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). We have noted that the Team Software Process page is in need of updating. It is noted on the Team Software Process page that "This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2011)." The technical staff at the SEI has also uncovered several factual inaccuracies on the page.
In an attempt to help address these shortcomings and to ensure the page is accurate and up-to-date, we recommend that a number of factual updates and citations be made. We first and foremost welcome and encourage edits from the community. Please note that any edits made by the SEI will be sourced, justified factual changes that are made with the best interests of the Wikipedia community in mind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.28.14 ( talk) 15:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
People watching this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:Bash (Unix shell)#Further discussion. Cheers. - GTBacchus( talk) 05:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm considering adapting this useful template for more generic usage. Currently, 'A component of Microsoft Windows' is included by default. Adding an extra parameter would allow its use for components of other OSes. Perhaps there's already a suitable template available, in which case I'd be interested to know. If not, I think the template could be adapted in either of the following ways:
Thoughts? -- Trevj ( talk) 14:12, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, please help on how to fix this following article; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZextCMS and also remove old article from; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zext Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuxwire ( talk • contribs) 09:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Not too sure if this is the right project, but someone may want to take a look at PackML. It was written by the organization behind the 'product'. I have no idea what this talks about, but it's pretty clear it needs cleanup, a proper layout, a proper lead, etc. It seems to contain original research too, but I'm not sure. If anyone wants to take a look, and maybe initiate conversation with the user who created it (see bottom message), it would be appreciated. Cheers - CharlieEchoTango ( talk) 19:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am an employee on the corporate communications team at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). I’m seeking help in updating the outdated information that is currently in the Software_Engineering_Institute Wikipedia article. I’ve included links to several resources below that contain information about the SEI and programs, and technologies. Please feel free to consult these sources as you are making updates to the article.
Thank you for your help, Dana
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10182/1069538-28.stm
• Dr. Dobb’s Journal: http://drdobbs.com/222301637
• PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/216936/when_trusted_IT_people_go_bad.html?tk=rss_news
• Government Info Security: http://www.govinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=465
• Software Integrity Blog: http://blog.coverity.com/uncategorized/interview-with-robert-seacord-head-of-the-secure-coding-initiative-at-cert/
• Bank Info Security: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=823
• On Software Engineering: http://onsoftwareengineering.com/2010/12/03/cmmi-version-1-3-and-agile/
• About.com: http://adulted.about.com/od/learningorganizations/a/seicertificationatcarnegiemellon.htm
--CMUSEI (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CMUSEI ( talk • contribs) 15:20, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
Would any interested parties here like to take a look at HP TeMIP Software? I landed on it from the Random Article link yesterday, and one thing that jumped out at me was its complete lack of references (no Reference section, no inline citations, not even an External Links section). I added the References maintenance tag and Googled to find some reliable sources, but I honestly couldn't find one that fit the guidelines, so I then added the Notability template too. I realize Google isn't everything, so I brought this here in case anybody might know how to source this article; as it stands now, I don't know that it could pass a deletion discussion.
I've outlined all this on the talk page too. Cheers, Northumbrian ( talk) 14:30, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
The article HP TeMIP Software has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
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This notification pertains to the topic I started above. If an interested editor associated with the software project wishes to contest the deletion by removing the proposed deletion tag and then supplying the secondary sources that the article requires, please feel free to do so. Northumbrian ( talk) 21:23, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Bundled software#Redirect.
Trevj (
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11:08, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I was seriously considering CSDing this as advertising, bearing in mind the huge lack of RS I can find on it (see talk page). There seems to have been a lot of activity spamming it around forum sites very recently, including mention of targets for shipping it out .... I'm going to tag it as probably lacking notability, and PROD it, instead of going the CSD route. If any of you can find some decent RS for it, though, and maybe re-write it, please go ahead! Pesky ( talk … stalk!) 06:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Not sure if this project is still active, but I thought I'd ask this question anyway. I'm working on the article British Open Championship Golf, and I've run across a complication: its manual is a WinHelp file. I have no idea how to properly cite one of these, but User:Jinnai suggested that someone in this project might have had a similar problem in the past. Anyone have some advice? JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 04:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, there seems to be a dispute on the Android talk page... Basically, two editors do not agree that a release of the source code counts as a release of the software... I disagree, so I would like to invite anyone with some skills to that debate. Regards -- SF007 ( talk) 06:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
I was advised at The Village Pump to ask the following question here. If this is the wrong place, please let me know.
User:Sbmeirow recently added a portal box to software testing to a number of pages about computer hardware, such as ARM Cortex-M3, Single-board microcontroller and Embedded system. These appear to have only a tenuous connection to software testing. I don't want to accuse him of doing something wrong when I am unsure whether it actually is wrong, but it seems odd to list hardware in the software testing portal. Do these pages belong? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 16:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs article was nominated for GA review (at WP:GAN#COMP). Comments (and the review itself) are welcome! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I deleted a bunch of text from Mdadm that I do not consider appropriate for Wikipedia (per What Wikipedia is not). An anonymous user expressed some rage about my action on the article's discussion page, so I figured I would bring the matter here for additional attention and appropriate discussion. Dfeuer ( talk) 04:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Please comment on merge proposal at Talk:7-Zip. Thanks, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 19:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I assist in sorting stubs for Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub Sorting. Would an API (such as this stub) be classified as a computer programming tool or a computer library? I'm drawn to side of computer library, but I would like your opinion.-- Yutsi Talk/ Contributions 16:37, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Several Netscape pictures have been nominated for deletion. You may be interested. See Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 March 17
65.92.181.184 ( talk) 03:29, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
This article is a one-liner about a Javascript library which I deleted after it was PRODded for lack of notability. That has been queried on my talk page by a user who says it is important, even revolutionary, and has "made most of my 10 years of web development experience obsolete"; so I have restored it, invited him to expand it, and now post here in case anyone is interested in helping. JohnCD ( talk) 16:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
As community manager participating to many conferences and JavaScript meetups, I must say that backbone.js looks to interest a lot of people and it is a topic that is often proposed by speakers. I invite you to have a look on Lanyrd to get an idea: Backbone.js search results on Lanyrd Alexandre.Morgaut ( talk) 13:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
The discussion about moving MindTouch Core to MindTouch (over redirect) is taking place. Opinions needed! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Why do we have one chrome article and endless versions of firefox floating around? Now firefox is on a rapid release schedule are we going to end up with many more articles breeding as versions come out thick and fast? -- Cameron Scott ( talk) 10:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I've started an AfD discussion about Altoros article (software developer business) and quickly got overwhelmed with an amount of editors who have no contribution outside the topic, so that I'm now unable to judge on the process from an unbiased point of view. Please give a glance the article and state your opinion in the discussion. The more uninvolved people will come there, the less tricky it will be to judge on consensus, as currently the amount of people (as opposed to accounts) participating in discussion is IMHO very questionable. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 12:01, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Software! The Firefox article is really outdated and in need of repair. It would be great if we could put together a team to help maintain it - or at least bring it up to date. Thanks ҭᴙᴇᴡӌӌ 15:12, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I've created a new article titled xdvi. It's still quite stubby. Have fun improving and extending it. Michael Hardy ( talk) 16:53, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
5 Steps of accounting information system and work process — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.120.8.67 ( talk) 03:43, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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This program has issues with malware, etc. I have used it and agree. I am very happy using it, and just ignore or fix the issues on my versions. See the talk page and article history. It seems that some believe the article should have a 'controversy' section with RS. I don't know which RS are RS for computer software articles though. There is a little more detail about my issues with it on ref desk/computers-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 17:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Anyone got an opinion on the new article RELAP5-3D? I have just come across it. I think it contains some stuff of value but as far as I can see there are 2 main issues:
However, I've not really worked on this sort of article before so I thought I'd get an opinion here.
Yaris678 ( talk) 09:15, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all! I’m working with the Saylor foundation to create a series of original, crowd-sourced textbooks that will be openly licensed and freely available on the web and within Saylor’s free, self-paced courses at Saylor.org. We are using Wikibooks as a platform to host this project and hope to garner the interest of existing members of the Wikibooks and Wikipedia community, as well as bring in new members! We thought that some of your members may be interested in contributing to our book Saylor.org's C++ Programming. Azinheira ( talk) 19:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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I just thought I'd let everyone know that Folding@home is now a Featured Article candidate. Please feel free to leave comments and voice your opinion one way or the other. Hopefully together we can proceed through the nomination swiftly. Thanks, • Jesse V. (talk) 14:25, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I have challenged the decision to award this article FA status over what I allege is a lack of balance and neutrality in the article. Fresh opinions and input are encouraged here. Quantumsilverfish ( talk) 01:41, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I have started an RFC at Talk:Ubuntu (operating system)#Ubuntu as "Adware". Please join the discussion there. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I removed a large portion of the Maple (software) page because I deemed it unfit for an encyclopedia. It was inserted again without further explanation. Am I missing something here? -- Ysangkok ( talk) 20:59, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm thinking of creating an article about Karl Wiegers, an author of several books on software requirements discipline. However, I'm not 100% sure the person meets the notability criteria. Could you help me define if it's true or not? -- ViseMoD ( talk) 18:59, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. Is there a manual-of-style or something for software articles? I ask as I just came across an article listing a piece of software's entire version history, which seemed to be in contravention of WP:IINFO, but I couldn't find any software-related guidelines to confirm this. I removed it anyway - it was constituting 50% of the article and was obviously overkill - just wanted the response loaded if questioned! Cheers, Nik the stunned 12:58, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Consider this edit at Plesk which is two people arguing over whether a long and detailed revision history, including quarterly point-releases, actually belongs in the article. I tend to side with the deletionist - at the very least it should be trimmed to just the major releases. What do the members of this project think? Is there guidance in any of the computing/software projects? -- Biker Biker ( talk) 21:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to introduce the Template:Version template to the Computing styleguide, with the goal to establish one standard for version history tables (or lists) on WP. It simplifies creation of release histories, standardizes release stages and makes the content more accessible:
Version | Description |
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1.0 | Old version |
1.8 | Older version, yet still supported |
2.0 | Current stable version |
3.0 | Future release |
Please comment on the template talk page (there already is some active discussion going on). Jesus Presley ( talk) 01:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could somebody comment here. Thank you. -- Mdd ( talk) 14:26, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
In recent weeks, I've been work on behalf of the company Mindjet, which makes mind-mapping software, to update their article here on Wikipedia. The article itself is relatively new, dating from earlier this year, and so the changes are fairly minor, despite a few big changes at the company.
I previously posted a request for editors to review my changes over at WP:Companies, but no one from there has been able to take a look at the article yet. One neutral editor has weighed in on the talk page, but would like input from other editors rather than making the changes unilaterally.
Given my COI on this request, I was hoping that someone here at WP:Software might be able to take a look at the changes that I've proposed over at Talk:Mindjet in order to reach a consensus about whether or not the changes seem appropriate and, if so, work with the other editor(s) to move the changes over into the mainspace.
If you have any feedback or concerns, please feel free to leave me a message here, over at Talk:Mindjet, or at User_Talk:ChrisPond. Thanks! ChrisPond ( Talk · COI) 14:16, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Can we get some eyes on this? My personal interp is that it is new and therefore not notable and seems to be advertising. Was thinking about afd but figured I'd raise the question here before I do Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:28, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
In recent weeks, I've been work on behalf of the company Mindjet to update the article for MindManager, one of their software products. There have been a number of rather significant changes over at Mindjet recently, and the current MindManager article is quite out of date.
I posted a request for an editor to review the article on Talk:MindManager; you can also view my proposed draft in my userspace at User:ChrisPond/Mindjet (software)
Given my COI on this request, I was hoping that someone here at WP:Software might be able to review my draft and, if appropriate, make the changes that I discuss on Talk:MindManager, including renaming the article and moving over the revised draft. I have also requested help for changes
If you have any feedback or concerns, please feel free to leave me a message here, over at Talk:MindManager, or at User_Talk:ChrisPond. Thanks! ChrisPond ( Talk · COI) 14:56, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
If anyone is interested in iOS-related subjects, the articles iOS jailbreaking, Cydia, SHSH blob, and Greenpois0n have a lot of active talk page discussions that would benefit from additional perspectives and opinions. A bunch of the discussions have been between just one other editor and me. Thanks! Dreamyshade ( talk) 01:53, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Evening All! Following a conversation/debate on the Firefox article regarding the screenshot, I have proposed a new section for the software screenshot guidelines. Basically, it's designed to deal with OS wars, and clarify the standard for what OS should display what screenshot (without being too rigid). Please would you have a quick look at my initial proposal and make suggestions, give feedback, and hopefully get things moving. I note from older talk sections there that this has previously been a topic of discussion, so hopefully we can clarify it sometime! Thanks. drewmunn ( talk) 10:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
There is a discussion about Talk:Microsoft Office 2013 licensing terms in progress and we need someone with access to source to confirm or deny the problem.
Best regards,
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Hi all,
after a style change of {{ LSR}} there's a discussion on wether to keep the change and use it for {{ LPR}} too, revert it or develop an alternative design for both. Some constructive feedback for the discussion would be welcome.
Furthermore you're invited to leave a vote for your favourite design or express your opposition against the others. -- Patrick87 ( talk) 20:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see WT:PHYSICS, where a discussion on creating an article on "transformation" is occurring. -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 21:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
File:Xfce-logo-big.png has been nominated for deletion. (are we allowed to use LGPL images?) -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 22:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
A proposal for a WikiProject Apps has been made at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Apps. As WikiProject Software is a related WikiProject, members of this WikiProject are invited to join the discussion. Thank you. XapApp ( talk) 02:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_8#Category:Apps.
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07:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Template:Active has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. I'm only notifying this WikiProject because the template is in Category:Software templates. Feel free to remove this message from this talk page.
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image:OpenEmuHeroScreenshot.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 05:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
File:LG-WebOS.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 07:13, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Alan and I"m the marketing director at Couple. As to avoid any conflict I'm submitting to the community a request to add feature information to our page. Factual information only as follows:
1+ million downloads (crossed the 1m threshold in March: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/03/23/the-personal-social-network-couples-celebrates-its-one-year-anniversary-with-1-million-users/ ) Apple editors choice award (February 2013) Google Play staff pick (May 2013)
Features include: · Private timeline to build a shared history & remember all your special moments · Real-time messaging to express yourself through sharing videos, voice messages, and photo (with photo filters too!) · Send Secrets: private photos that no one else can see; even set them to disappear! · ThumbKiss™ when you want to be close: whether next door across continents touch the same spot on your phones to make them both light up and vibrate simultaneously · Sketch together in real-time: draw together simultaneously from a thousand miles away! · Make phone calls or Facetime from insite the app · Share to-do lists: real-time syncing from new date ideas to remembering milk at the store · Calendar reminders: schedule dates, automatic notification of birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates · Instantly share locations · Cross platform support
Contact info: Website: www.couple.me Support: http://support.couple.me/ Twitter: @CoupleApp Pintrest: pinterest.com/coupleapp Instagram: instagram.com/coupleapp
Please contact me ( alan@tenthbit.com ) with any questions, concerns, edits, etc.
Thanks for your help
-- 67.180.211.176 ( talk) 23:52, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
{{portal|Mozilla}} Portal:Mozilla has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 08:20, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Template:Latest stable release/Google Spreadsheets and Template:Latest stable software release/Google Spreadsheets have been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 02:30, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
This article has been tagged as unreferenced since Feb 2012, and I can't find the term "avalanche model" used in this way other than on Wikipedia. Rattle ( talk) 22:58, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Morning all! This kind of stems from a conversation we've had at the screenshot guidelines, but I'd like to expand it here in light of the Windows 8 article and its content. It was decided at the screenshots page that we should not allow screenshots of pre-release software unless they're from a reliable source (news site etc) and we're noting that they have been reported. The Windows 8 page now has a whole section devoted to the upcoming 8.1, a large percentage of which lists updates evident in leaked builds. My question is whether this information should be included (it does cite news articles), and if so, how the wording could be improved. Anyway, that's all for now! drewmunn talk 06:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Greetings all, I am looking for help with a request for the Blackboard Inc. article. Important to disclose: I am working on behalf of Blackboard Inc. to improve this article and address problems described by the warning tags currently in place. Because of my COI I will not make any edits to the article in the main space, hence my interest in finding other editors to review and, eventually, move a draft once consensus is reached.
I have been working on this new draft in my user space for awhile now and I am ready for other editors to review what I've prepared. If this is something you'd like to help with please take a look at the request on the Blackboard Inc. Talk page and my draft in my user space here: User:WWB_Too/Blackboard_Inc._(2013_revision). For anyone who is able to help, probably best to reply to me on the article's Talk page, which I have watchlisted. If anyone feels my draft needs additional changes, I'm very open to discussing that as well. Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 16:37, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
I just created an article about my company, Mocana. I've made every effort to source all the information and present it in a neutral tone, but would certainly welcome any feedback. -- Wurtis65 ( talk) 19:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Back in early June I helped create an article for Freddie A. Laker, the founder of the software company Guide. I'm now looking for help with three small updates to the article.
I'm asking here because my work on the project has been as a paid consultant to Guide. I've only edited the draft in my user space and now that the article has been moved live, after review through AfC, I would like to avoid making any edits to the article myself. I've left a more detailed note on the article's Talk page explaining the changes I'm hoping to have made. Please take a look if you're able to help. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 16:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
image:Volkswriter 2.2.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 08:12, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Several screenshots of MSWord are up for deletion, see Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2013_July_27 -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Also, more screenshots from Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 July 26 -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi All! Would you mind popping over to the Final Cut Pro talk page, where I've started an RfC on the differentiation between the eponymous software and Final Cut Pro X? Your views are very much welcome. Thanks in advance! drewmunn talk 12:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
image:Newton logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 05:15, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Freeware has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 06:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Last month in the Executable UML article a link was added to Umple in the "See also" section (see here), which was undone (see here) and restored (see here), etc... And since then there is a dispute about this link, see Talk:Executable_UML#Umple_and_Executable_UML. I hereby request for further comments on this matter on the Executable UML talk-page, thanks you -- Mdd ( talk) 10:58, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Notepad2Icon.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 03:54, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I submitted a WikiProject proposal for Project Vocaloid, which is, as the name implies, a project focused on Vocaloid-related articles, their improvement, and the addition of Vocaloid-related articles that currently do not exist. Since the Vocaloid/2/3 engines and the voicebanks for them fall under the term "software", I just came by to inform the project of its (potentially) being listed as a related project.
I wanted to make this an entirely new project because Vocaloid has many things related to it that would fall under several projects' jurisdictions. For example, tools used for Vocaloid animation (such as MikuMikuDance) or vocal synthesis (such as the Vocaloid engine) could fall under this project's scope, due to their both being pieces of software, but pages like MikuMikuDance would also fall under WikiProject Animation's watch, due to the software being a tool used for 3D animation, as well as being both a piece of software, and being related to Vocaloid. WikiProject Vocaloid would simply unify them all under one general category covering an entire topic.
I just wanted to give the project a heads-up that it'll (potentially) be shown in the "Related Projects" section of another WikiProject.
Have a nice day! N Studios 2 22:52, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there is an RfC opened at talk:Microsoft Minesweeper -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 10:11, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
image:VirtualMachineManager.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 06:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
-- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 07:46, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Screenshot of Style Jukebox on Galaxy Nexus.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 13:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
file:Python 3.3.2 reference document.pdf has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 03:39, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi all,
Myself and some other LabVIEW enthusiasts are keen to see the LabVIEW article brought up to speed and generally overhauled. It seems dated, a little subjective, it's certainly incomplete and less than complimentary.
We wish to conduct our modernization of the content objectively and sensibly, and expect a large proportion of the existing content to get modified. The current structure is not to our approval, so we wish to move sections about and move content between sections to accommodate a revised breakdown (something more akin to the MATLAB page perhaps, which appears to be better maintained).
Can I ask what the best approaches might be for us regarding these changes? We don't wish to spend a lot of effort performing adjustments to see them reversed by an auditor because they're too massive. Is there a generally accepted strategy for making major changes to a Wiki page?
Thanks in advance for any advice received,
ThoricCLA — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThoricCLA ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As Chakra_(operating_system) is noted on its talk page as being supported by WikiProject Software, I would like to offer folks an opportunity to voice their opinions on an ongoing thread at Talk:Chakra_(operating_system)#Regarding_notability_tag....
Thanks in advance for your time and attention,
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 00:15, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I work for Good Technology. The article has had flags indicating problems for a couple years. It also had some small inaccuracies, and presented a pretty incomplete overview of the company's history. While I understand that I have a conflict of interest, I want to help improve the article according to Wikipedia's standards. I have recently made some edits and additions, making every effort to express a neutral point of view; I also added about 20 independent citations. I hope a more experienced Wikipedian can take a look at my edits and provide any needed feedback. ( previous version, prior to my edits)
Also, in the future I think it might make sense to merge the Visto article into this one, as the companies are now one and the same. - Karenarlenereynolds ( talk) 00:17, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I've nominated OpenOffice.org for FAC. Uninvolved reviewers for FAC would be most welcome. Or, if you haven't time for that, just looking over the article would be good :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 09:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
I work for Loomio and created a stub article on it in my userspace. It was quickly shifted to the live site by other editors. I'm new to wikipedia and am trying to follow Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest - Simontegg
Dear software experts. Can someone please take a look at the above submission at Afc? Even though I have had some experience in writing software, I can't tell if this article is describing the product in an encyclopedic fashion. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:48, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Consider my recent edit on Adobe GoLive, which was discontinued in April 2008. In fact, it is a perfect example of why I'd like to see this practice become standard. The final version was downloadable for almost a year after that version's stable release. So, let's add sentences such as that to the bottoms of Version History Tables, for Articles on discontinued products.
For active products (that is to say not discontinued, still actively developed and upgraded), I would also like you guys to look at the recent color code compromise (which is "pastel," essentially the same colors but in slightly lighter shades) over at Template:Version (click on the Template's Talk Page). This new compromise concerning the color code has not yet been implemented, but it will be implemented in a week or 2 if there are no further objections. The Mysterious El Willstro ( talk) 23:12, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm involved with the article BeerXML (as an advocate for software in brewing) I'd appreciate help with the article as I am not as well versed in software as in brewing. The article has been tagged for deletion by two users who object to its existence, although I know that brewing software is used daily by tens (if not 100s of thousands of people) Your views on whether the article should be given time to develop would be most welcome at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BeerXML Thanks - Devils In Skirts! ( talk) 19:36, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 01:21, 23 February 2014 (UTC).
Dear editors. I accidentally posted the same message. Wkmaster ( talk) 01:25, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear software experts: Is this a notable person, and should this old abandoned Afc submission be kept and improved, or deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:46, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
User reason for visiting this page. I need a list of free or quasi free pdf converters. The one I use on my laptop is pdf995. I forgot the name and so went looking for it on google and yahoo. It no longer appears on the first page of google, now it is on the second page.
Additionally, the authors of the wiki page for free pdf software or quasi free, FAILS to list pdf 995.
This is an excellent program and completely free. The only payment is looking at an ad.
I am not sure why you have not included pdf995. I have used it now for four years. for free.
Unfortunately, a list page of free software is very useful and I applaud the author or authors for their contribution, although not perfect.
The current problem, is that google is no longer reliable as it used to be. I believe my searches are more manipulated by them and things that used to pop us, no longer do.
One observation is that you get less links on the first page and some people, never make it to the second page.
Therefore, this wiki submission is helpful, even if it fails to include a very important free pdf converter, as pdf995 provides to the economical consumer.
thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.88.233.183 ( talk) 16:56, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
As I mentioned last year, I have updated and expanded the article on my employer, Good Technology with independently sourced content. I have done my best to address the concerns others had expressed about previous versions of the article, and expanded it in ways that are neutral and comply with Wikipedia policy; but I would appreciate any feedback from experienced Wikipedians. - Karenarlenereynolds ( talk) 17:49, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Can an expert pay some attention to this and fix the issues? Bearian ( talk) 21:37, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
While this section has an obvious cause - the article Cdrtools was recently inflated with lots of advertising material, including exhaustive comparison charts mostly containing obscure features such as Disc tattoo support, "support for all three Unix times"), platform support lists with obscure platforms (Atari MiNT support!!1!) as well as a huge download locations table, trivial command line examples ("To eject the media of the default optical disc drive, or just open its tray: cdrecord -eject") and almost 100 footnotes and references - I noticed that I could not find a WikiProject specific guideline of what contents are relevant for a software Wikipedia article?
In my opinion, we should have some (easy to find) guidelines on what is relevant for a software article. Much of the contents on above page should go to the software homepage, and not be maintained in Wikipedia.
In my opinion, all of these are inherently implied by the Wikipedia:Relevance of content guideline, but they could be formalized. This page also states:
More specific guidance on content may be provided by a WikiProject whose scope includes the article in question.
Maybe such a guideline exists, and I could just not find it?
I would also appreciate a third opion on the relevancy of contents in the cdrecord article. It has been subject to major edit wars (and yes, I have recently been involved), suffers from WP:COI, and in my opinion needs independent cleanup to make the article readable and useful. Maybe even by someone that does not use Unix and this software at all! In my opinion (see also Talk:Cdrtools), much of the contents are not relevant for Wikipedia, may constitute WP:OR, give undue weight on obscure features, and mostly serve the purpose of advertising cdrecord over the alternatives/forks that are currently preinstalled on major Linux distributions. This request is to get some clear guidelines on what the "majority" of Wikipedia editors consider to be relevant for a Wikipedia article, and what not; in order to have a guideline to resolve this dispute. Please use Talk:Cdrtools for discussion specific to cdrtools; and follow up here if it is about general guidelines? Thank you. -- Chire ( talk) 08:38, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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Dear software experts: This old Afc submission appears to have quite a few references. Is this notable software, and should the page be kept instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at KoodibooK. It has been marked as an orphan & I'm wondering if it meets the notability requirements - but I'm not very familiar with this area.— Rod talk 13:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
It's silly to have IBM Rational Rose XDE and similar stuff only in category "IBM software". That says nothing about what it does, in terms of categorization. I had trouble finding something suitable for Rigi (software). Basically there isn't a category for either reverse engineering or one for software visualization. And there are surely plenty of software products to fill both of these. JMP EAX ( talk) 22:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi – the Palringo article has a number of issues, mainly that it's very poorly referenced and gives undue weight to Palringo Groups. I've prepared a replacement userspace draft that is fully referenced and should tackle the issues that have been flagged. If someone could review it and feedback to me that would be much appreciated. In the interests of transparency I am declaring a conflict of interest in that I work for Bell Pottinger, a UK PR agency, and that Palringo is my client. I have made this clear on the article talk page and posted on COIN (since archived). Many thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 10:49, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello software experts. Can someone take a look at this old draft an see if the references are reliable? The draft will soon be deleted under G13 if no one takes an interest in it. — Anne Delong ( talk) 11:24, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi! There is an ongoing AFD discussion regarding GoldBug instant messenger. Right now the only participants besides me are several SPAs that came via Twitter post and flooded discussion with long posts with no respect to Wikipedia policies. I urge some experienced editors to assess this article and weight in with policy-based comments. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk• track) 12:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#CatVisor and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Planned features if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 22:58, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there's a notice about this draft article at WT:PHYSICS -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 08:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, could somebody please take a look at Mailpile and assess its notability please. I don't think there is enough extensive coverage from reliable sources to pass WP:GNG, so should be deleted. What's your view? Thanks, JMHamo ( talk) 21:52, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
The usage of GNU/Linux ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see WP:RFD for the disucssion -- 70.51.46.146 ( talk) 05:58, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
The meaning and usage of "software package" is under discussion, see talk:Package (package management system) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 05:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
See proposal on infobox talk page:
This proposal was made, and not done previously: Template talk:Infobox software/Archive 3#Source Code Repository Field. I'd like to revive the change, which I have commenced through opportunity for discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Software, as well as with a specific diff of the proposed edit.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattsenate ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
hi!
I haven't enough permission to update the logo image for All My Movies. The existing one is outdated. It wasn't used for several years. Can someone set this image as the logo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15499178/amm_logo180.png ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxic9 ( talk • contribs) 19:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Could use some more opinions here: Talk:Yet Another Cleaner#This page should not be speedy deleted because... -- NeilN talk to me 20:04, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Should all tables in WikiProject Software articles use the same date format? If something like that would be a viable new guideline, which date format should be used (MDY, DMY or ISO)? What about the tables collapsed by default? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 01:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Date_formats allows five day-specific date formats for use in tables:
Above formatting symbols as in glibc [5]. %e includes padded blank, and is used for day of the month (1...31)
Base | Page(s) | Table | Current format | Reason | Comment |
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Debian | Debian#Timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Best format (awaiting decision) | Converted from YYYY-MM-DD to D MMM YYYY, while the article text used "MMM DD, YYYY" and "D MMM YYYY" on 2014-02-05. Promoted to good article using D MMM YYYY on 2014-06-24. |
Debian | Aptosid#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Bharat Operating System Solutions#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Canaima (operating system)#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from policy-violating MMM YYYY, D[D]. |
Debian | Finnix#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with finnix.org release information and with references. |
Debian | gNewSense#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | HandyLinux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from MMM DD, YYYY in table, harmonization with references that used DD MMM YYYY (French, English, false spelled English). |
Debian | Pardus (operating system)#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Ubuntu (operating system)#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Kubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Lubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu, Kubuntu and format in image | |
Debian | Xubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. | |
Debian | Poseidon Linux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Linux Mint#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Freespire#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from MMM D, YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu and Debian articles and avoidance of having US and European format in one article. | |
Debian | Knoppix#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Skolelinux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from text that used MMM D, YYYY to table that uses ISO 8601. Harmonization with articles about Debian-based systems. | |
Debian | Kanotix#Release timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Damn Small Linux#Release timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Gentoo | Gentoo Linux#Versions | No | MMM D, YYYY | ||
Pacman | Manjaro Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | SUSE Linux distributions#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | OpenSUSE#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux#Version history | No | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux#Product life cycle | Yes | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | CentOS#Versioning and releases | Yes | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Scientific Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Fermi Linux#Releases | Yes | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Oracle Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Yellow Dog Linux#Releases | Yes | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | Berry Linux#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from policy-violating YYYY MMM D[D] | |
RPM | Korora (operating system)#Version history | No | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Aurora SPARC Linux#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from MMM D, YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD, harmonization with Fedora Core. | |
RPM | Mandriva Linux#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Mageia#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Mandriva Linux and avoidance of having US and European format in one article. | |
Slackware | Slackware#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD |
From this discussion, the following decisions should be made:
There is a divergence between technical readers that understand ISO 8601 and general readers that would rather use a word-based format. While I am inclined to use ISO 8601, this encyclopedia is for everyone. Debian was promoted to GA-class using a word-based format on June 24, 2014, and it is the only good article in the list above. Decisions are not made by vote; good articles represent better what an article should be and are the model for non-good articles to follow. Thus, I give in to a word-based format, but I will not defend this position. 84.127.82.127 ( talk) 18:58, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Reply to User:84.127.82.127
This whole ISO date format thing needs to be discussed. A whole bunch of articles becomes partially converted to the ISO date format with little to no discussion. Any chances, 80.134.94.228, to discuss that first, please? Per WP:ENGVAR and WP:ARTCON, articles shouldn't be changed that way. — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 02:10, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
80.134.94.228 ( talk) 20:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
We need information to make proper decisions. Let us gather the reasons why each article is using its date format. I have provided the reason for Debian, and added the Windows articles and OS X to the table; please do not add more changelog entries, because users that care about history use "View history". 84.127.115.190 ( talk) 02:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
I removed Windows and Mac. Both are owned by US based companies, while Linux is much more international. 91.9.103.21 ( talk) 08:07, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
FYI {{ Source code}} has been nominated for deletion -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 06:55, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Windows X. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 06:31, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello software experts. This old AfC submission has quite a few references. Is this a notable topic, and should the page be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 06:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello @ Orubel: is looking for help with his article Draft:API Chaining. There have been concerns over the notability of this software, I am hoping someone here can provide further assistance, or may be more aware of where to find more reliable sources. Please engage Orubel directly, with advice and guidance. His other article API Abstraction has survived a Prod but this one did not originally survive AFD.- McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 21:16, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion concerning who developed the BASIC programming language at Talk:BASIC#Sister Keller. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been contributing to Software & Computing related articles for a long time. I would like to get started in rating articles. I'm fairly unbaised in my approach which is why I usually cleanup, wikify, copy-write paras, rm advert-statements, neaten up articles, improve sections, reorder sections, and so on. I think I would be a good examiner, and I'm sure there are heaps of unrated articles or articles that could be re-rated.
I spoke to @ SuperHamster: about this and he/she said that my ratings seem "solid", but I'd like to write here to (a) verify if my ratings are fine, (b) learn how to rate articles properly (yes I've read the quality assessment scale) and (c) find the list of unrated articles so I can do my thing. Copied below is the excerpt of the discussion.
Hi folks - User:NeviRom stopped by my talk page and asked me to look at an article they rewrote in their sandbox for AVS Video Editor. The article was deleted, rightfully so, due sourcing and notability concerns. I'm not as knowledgeable in the subject area of video editing software. Can someone take a look here and perhaps give NeviRom some feedback? I can't tell if the sources are reliable or not...or if it meets the guidelines necessary for determining notability for such a subject. Thanks a lot! Missvain ( talk) 17:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Since the guys over at
Talk:Inkscape want to degradedowngrade Inkscape 0.91 to an unstable preview release, please
chime in and voice your opinion.
Regards, -- Patrick87 ( talk) 17:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Please keep Inkscape-related discussion on Talk:Inkscape, no need to spill over to here and fragment the discussions. And please stick to actual arguments, rather than insinuating personal attacks or unwillingness to listen. If you can't make progress, seek additional dispute resolution. -- intgr [talk] 12:47, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AUCS Linux. - Ahunt ( talk) 20:08, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Help appreciated with this table. -- Nemo 14:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Just looking to get some preliminary pointers on my draft article here before I let the AfC review decide its fate. I realize the notability thing might be a stretch, especially since I don't have any material to build a development section like a lot of other sofware articles have, but I tried my best to make do with what I found-- if you guys in WP:SOFTWARE have recommendations past this point, I'd love to know. BlusterBlaster kablooie! 21:35, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointers, guys. For the record, @ Peteforsyth: I'm not affiliated with jsr in any way, I'm just familiar with the software as someone who does music production-- I guess it comes at a risk that my prose would be biased since I really like FamiTracker, but I've been making doubly sure to keep it NPOV. I didn't figure that really uncontroversial or plainfaced technical details being cited back to the developer's website would be a huge issue; per WP:PRIMARY, stuff like that being cited from the developer's own mouth is okay as long as we're not putting any "spin" or interpretation to it that isn't through a secondary or tertiary source's lens.
@ Kvng: I did see a couple of the articles you suggested before, but I was hesitant to add them based on the fact that a lot of them are republishing/parroting info from Gamasutra's interview of Kaufman re: Shovel Knight, and I wouldn't really be able to do much with the same info in different places as far as I know. Still, thanks for going to the trouble of finding those sources. Later on today I'll see if I can put them to use. BlusterBlaster kablooie! 13:19, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Okay, I'll keep that in mind and try to reinforce the draft based on that principle. Thanks again, you're all so nice! One more question for @ Kvng: What did you mean by "removing the revision history"? BlusterBlaster kablooie! 17:23, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
I asked this on WPMUSIC but I was directed to go here, so here I am again.
I'm building an article for the iOS music sequencer app Auxy, but I'm just trying to figure out how to describe what kind of music-making app it is, because it kind of operates as a combination of a piano roll and drum machine/sequencer sort of thing like a Korg drumpad... no RSes describe the app in more specific terms than a "music app" that I've seen, but would calling it a "sequencer"-style music editor app or something like that suffice? I dunno if I'm splitting hairs at this point and should just call it a "sequencer" app. Opinions? BlusterBlaster kablooie! 16:40, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the input, guys - this is what I've worked out so far on this draft, so let me know any suggestions you have for it (right off the bat I can definitely say it needs images of the app icon and a screenshot for the infobox, but AFAIK I can't upload any images until this goes live and outside of userspace, so I'm holding off on uploading those until then). BlusterBlaster kablooie! 16:09, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Stella is an app for depicting geometrical shapes called polyhedra. It is widely used by polyhedronists but, because little has been written about it per se, it is difficult to provide citations to support its notability and it has been templated for possible deletion. I am sure that this issue must dog other apps which might be popular in their field but little known outside of it. Is there any Project guideline or core of wisdom on what kind of citation material to look out for? Any practical help would also be much appreciated. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 17:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi.
There is a move request at Talk:Virtual disk § Requested move 11 July 2015, which I believe concerns this project. (It is not automatically listed in WP:SOFTW/AA.) Participants are welcome.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
19:38, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Software. There is a Request for Comment on the Uber article Talk page regarding the description of the company's growth and history in the article. Since I think the article is of interest to this WikiProject, editors here may want to join the discussion. The question under discussion is how Uber's history might be best summarized within subsections. Craig at Uber ( talk) 20:18, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a RfC on the topic of software notability at Wikipedia talk:Notability (software). Interested editors are requested to comment. :) ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 09:16, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm looking for editors interested in software companies. If anyone here is willing and interested, I'd love to get another perspective on a proposal I've put forward to redirect the Citrix Online article to the Citrix Systems article. I am working as a paid consultant to Citrix, so I won't be making any edits to the article. I would like to discuss possible blanking and redirection over here on the article's talk page. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 20:48, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, everyone. Our fellow Wikipedian User:Ians18 has engaged in a number of edits that I find highly controversial; they are being discussed in Outlook.com § Requested move 17 August 2015. I believe we need additional input. A summary of the dispute is as follows:
Traditionally, both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App / Outlook on the web had four modules: Mail, Calendar, Contacts (or People) and Tasks. But Ians18 changed the names of Outlook.com, Calendar (Microsoft service) and People (Microsoft service) into Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar and Outlook People and merged Outlook Web App into Outlook.com. He initially said that they are actually renamed, but now has retreated to the position of "their rename is announced and will definitely happen". I, however, cannot see any of these and believe he has taken too much for granted, is sailing too close to WP:CRYSTAL, and his point of view is badly influenced by being an Office 365 user.
Additional input is welcome. Fleet Command ( talk) 12:08, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello computer software experts. This old AfC draft appears to have references. Is this a notable software company, and are the references suitable?— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:44, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Umm, frist i will like to talk about we the teeneagers who wanna learn haking.I am pleading with the wikipedia to help us and bring us to the world of hackin thank you am ahmad adams fro nigeria — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.68.78 ( talk) 20:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me that some information about Importance is missing:
I question the validity of recent edits in Computer Program and would like comments from other editors. Timhowardriley ( talk) 19:58, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
I have posted a request edit on the Talk page requesting consideration of a ~10 paragraph draft as a more complete/neutral/researched page. The article's content has indications of likely conflicted editing in the past and I think this will put it in a better place. Any thoughts from folks familiar with software pages would be welcome. Cheers. David King, Ethical Wiki ( Talk) 06:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed that Autodesk Fusion 360 is missing on this page:
/info/en/?search=Talk:List_of_3D_modeling_software
It's commercial and free for hobbyists/students. (And awesome btw). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.143.220.105 ( talk) 20:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC) (Wikipedia confuses me a lot, someone please delete this after adding the software to the list. Sorry.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.143.220.105 ( talk) 20:28, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
In different circumstances, product website urls are distinct from their source code urls. It would be helpful to amend the Infobox for software, to include:
| website =
example
| source code =
example
Not particularly certain on how to SandBox that proposal, as it appears locked. Thanks! --Elika Kohen 02:38, 12 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elikakohen ( talk • contribs)
I prodded it, but the creator argues ( Talk:Fldigi) it's notable in light of WP:NSOFT. It's not my area of expertise, the sources look weak, but before I go to AfD, I'd like a 30 from here. AfD or not? What do you say, software experts? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:04, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Fldigi is notable enough that it is in the " Ham Radio for Dummies " book as the simplest way to start decoding digital signals. To quote the book: "By far the most popular program of 2014 is Fldigi, by W1HKJ." (among soundcard-digital modem software)
kf4yfd ( talk) 06:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Only describe one very small aspect of a huge IEC 62304 standard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.75.211.6 ( talk) 19:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:List of software forks. Joerg Schilling insists the cdrtools/cdrkit fork happened in 2004 not 2006, won't provide a third-party RS and claims the third-party RS that does exist ( LWN.net) isn't good enough. Poster is also being abusive and using the talk page for possibly BLP-violating personal attacks on others. He first raised this a few years ago and couldn't provide RSes to support his claim then either. I realise he feels quite strongly about the issue, but that doesn't make his view an encyclopedic claim, and doesn't licence the abusiveness. Could others please have a look at the issue in case I'm actually completely wrong? - David Gerard ( talk) 16:37, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Someone has made a request to merge WPiOS inot WPAppleInc, for the discussion, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject iOS -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 05:28, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi !
Not quite sure which portal or project is maintaning the the infobox and templates for software articles, so i'm asking that question here. At GeoGebra i noticed the peculiar behaviour that the version display is stuck at 5.0.180 and doesn't match anymore the value that was entered via the linked template which is currently at 5.0.187. Does anybody know why that is and how to fix that?-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 22:33, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi.
A person with at least two different IP addresses ( Special:Contributions/84.153.129.232 and Special:Contributions/84.153.152.170) has been engaged in edits that seems to me ... well, biased (Windows-phobic) and poorly sourced ( WP:SPS, a newsgroup) in the following articles:
I have reverted him once and he has counter-reverted, with some rather ... well, some remarks. Now, I don't want to form an ad hominem bias myself, so I'd be grateful if another editor review those edits.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
11:25, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#All_GFDL_images_are_software.21. Cross-posting here because that WikiProject sees little participation. Pcap ping 19:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I've started a RfC on my proposal for dealing with one of these articles, where the discussion has been particularly heated. My proposal is not specific to that kind of software, so hopefully the result of the discussion can be used as a precedent for all similar articles. Please participate at Talk:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients#A way forward. Pcap ping 15:10, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
For those not following the wiki dramaz, there's a plan in the works to prod all unreferenced BLPs (check your watch list notice for a pointer). Below is an intersection of that category with the Category:Computer programmers, using this tool. The usual battle plan is to strike them out as you reference them. Some may be incorrectly tagged.
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Alvy_Ray_Smith:
Computer_graphics_professionals;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Andrey_"KranK"_Kuzmin:
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Questionable Notability. Sent to AfD.
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Antony_Crowther:
British_computer_programmers,
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Birger_Møller-Pedersen:
Computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Questionable Notability. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate. No Contentious Material.
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Bob_Scheifler:
Free_software_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate on Software Page. Citation Ported Over. No Contentious Material.
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Bob_Shannon:
Computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Questionable Notability. Sent to AfD.
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Bob_Smith_(Atari):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Non-Notable. Redirected to main article.
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Bob_Sproull:
Computer_graphics_professionals,
Computer_graphics_researchers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Brian_Fox:
Free_software_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Daniel_Kottke:
American_computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Mistag.
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Sean_Barrett_(programmer):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Not done Nonnotable, no contentious material.
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Thomas_Knoll:
Computer_graphics_professionals;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate. No Contentious Material.
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Tim_Anderson_(Zork):
Video_game_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Notable. Asserted Notability, Verified Accurate on Software Page. Citation Ported Over. No Contentious Material.
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Wayne_Bell_(computer_specialist):
American_computer_programmers;
All_unreferenced_BLPs Done Questionable Notability. Mistag.
Regards. Pcap ping 13:36, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
This is a disjoint category, but some articles may be already included in the above list if they're categorized in both:
Pcap ping 22:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
The information on wiki, about me, which was originally input by one of our 7 children was disputed in many ways over the years since it's input. I no longer claim to be father of the BBS as it is, or was. I would like to mention that Kathy Yakal, one of the people who wrote about me was hard for me to look up after all these years and she is the one who put quote marks around her words.......I think she was signed in under her name...she was and still is an editor of computer magazines...the first being Computes Gazette and Computer magazine. She is fairly easy now for anyone to get a hold of if need be. I do still have a copy of the issue in question published in 1984.
I am now 64 years old. I wrote the program in 1982. I did in deed sell over 4000 copies not 400. Up until that point in my life I was disabled....and this program brought me out of it and into business..I had one of the first computer stores in Northern California.....all based on the monies I made from Electric Magazine. I am proud of what I did....and I am proud that one of my children decided to enter it into Wiki.
When I was young and writing this program...actually I was about 37......I was a happy father and happy for my success. It saddens me that some of the younger generation see reason to dispute what I have done...I am TRULY saddened. I have been very proud of my addition to Wiki...but if it goes....know this...I will accept it...but it will hurt me....My wife and I have taught and raised 7 kids, many of whom are now professionals in their own fields...5 college graduates....I am sure they too shall share in my emotional pain.
Electric Magazine brought me from a ill-nobody to a big (my word) somebody, recognized by very many when only a handful owned computers.....I humbly request of you not to delete it....
Thank you for your time and consideration. Bob Shannon Cheney, Washington —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eqshannon ( talk • contribs) 05:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC) Quick Reply:
(Can someone else fill in relevant links to the policies that explain the above? I'm overdue for bed right now)
ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 07:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see more discussion of what appropriate sourcing for software projects should look like, something like Wikipedia:Reliable_source_examples and the 'see also' referencing guides listed there. I'm very concerned about the tenor of discussions, where I observe the Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions#Google_test used. I'll mention this at WP:WikiProject Computing and WP:WikiProject Software but wanted to mention it here as well, since the current list of AfD made me believe this is needed. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 21:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Well, it's difficult to list sources for something as vast as this, but the videogames wikiproject has guidelines, which give non-self-published reviews as reliable sources. See Wikipedia:VG/RS#List. Something like this can be done in task forces or similar sub-wikiprojects. Pcap ping 12:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:VG/RS#List seems like a good model. I particularly like that they have a custom search engine. Anybody else interested in talking this through? Pcap is right, "software" is too big a topic. So I think the first step would be to either choose a subtopic or maybe to think about the different types of articles that exist. A sourcing discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MUME got me thinking about this again. Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 10:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello! One of my adoptees would like the members of this project to review an article he created on a mobile device managment platform. I have helped him some with grammar, but as it concerns a product I am not personally familiar with and thus not an expert on it, it would me most helpful if someone(s) from this project could give the article a look and see if it is ready for mainspace. Thank you for your time. The proposed article is at User:PCJain/sandbox. It gets some hits on Google News that could perhaps be helpful. Sincerely, -- A Nobody My talk 19:18, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
FYI, a bunch of X/11 Window Managers have been sent for deletion via AfD, see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2010_February_21
70.29.210.242 ( talk) 10:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
FYI, Category:CNC, CAD, and CAM has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.210.242 ( talk) 06:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Category:FORTRAN programming language family has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.210.242 ( talk) 06:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Please, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (mathematics)#Source code and pseudocode. The problem is very important for future development of computer sci. articles. A consensus needs to be reached.-- Tim32 ( talk) 15:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello!
Help is needed. NanoZip is a novel file archiver in alpha state currently. Benchmarks show that it is better than any other archivers today. I think it worth to be mentioned in Wikipedia, but it is proposed that article is to be deleted. -- Varnav ( talk) 09:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Does this project maintain its own notability guidelines? The dwm and awesome deletion discussions inspired a chat about this at the recent LibrePlanet conference. – SJ + 07:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
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Are there some guidelines that distinguish between freeware/shareware/abandonware and discontinued/unmaintained/maintained? Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 April 20. Pcap ping 04:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an overhaul of the “Pixetell” article Pixetell that was previously posted and raised concerns among some reviewers. I am an employee of Ontier, the company that makes and sells Pixetell, which is an online communications software product. I value Wikipedia and understand the legitimate concerns about companies attempting to use Wikipedia for marketing purposes. My company wishes to have a presence on Wikipedia, one that meets the high standards of Wikipedia and strengthens it as a resource for objective information. I have made a point of reading through relevant policies, guidelines, and essays (such as WP:COI, WP:N, WP:V, and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest, as well as Opera (web browser) (as an FA about a software product). I have also sought out advice from long-time Wikipedians. Please take a look at my proposed replacement text, which I hope you will agree is an unbiased and thoroughly cited improvement. Dan Cook 23:54, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Article needs help determining historically important developments and criteria for establishing notability of software packages and apps. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 11:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
There is a content dispute on GNU ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - the problem is basically where and how to put the current usability status of GNU in the article lead. There is a long discussion between me and Cyclopia on the talk page about that and it seems we're unable to reach a compromise. Expert attention would help. Thanks. Yworo ( talk) 23:54, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
This is to notify members of this WikiProject, within which scope this article falls, that VGASAVE, has been listed for deletion. Editors interested in the deletion discussion, are invited to participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VGASAVE (2nd nomination). Thank you. - Ahunt ( talk) 11:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
This is to notify members of this WikiProject, within which scope this article falls, that Software archaeology, has been listed for deletion. Editors interested in the deletion discussion, are invited to participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software archaeology. Thank you. - Radagast 3 ( talk) 01:04, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about the development status of MuPAD at Talk:MuPAD, which people may be interested in. Yaris678 ( talk) 08:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Could I get some second opinions about Hamilton C shell? The only independent and reliable secondary source I see listed is this one by Dr. Dobb's Journal (not sure in which incarnation that source was in 1991). Other sources include a " personal website", a FAQ apparently produced by an individual, and a bunch of mailing list postings: [1], [2], [3], [4]. The other references are by the developer of this software, Nicole Hamilton, who is obviously not independent of the subject (just as an autobiography would not be an independent source in one of our biographical articles). I think this one Dr. Dobb's source would not confer notability under the general notability guideline (which is what seems to apply to software products), but I wanted to make sure I'm right about that before taking it to AFD.-- Chaser ( talk) 17:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
BTW, C_shell#Influence may contain some relevant assertions. There are no new independent sources, however.-- Chaser ( talk) 18:05, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any existing standards for the structure of software articles? Here's a recommendation for the structure of an article about a school, for example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines#Structure. And here's one for countries: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries#Structure and guidelines. And one for plays: Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Article Structure. It'd be great if we had guidelines like this for software. Matthew Simoneau ( talk) 13:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
The usage of alleyway is under discussion, see Talk:Alleyway#Requested_move -- 65.95.14.34 ( talk) 08:45, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Updating this article seems to have stalled. Here is a proposal to move forward. The Software Process and Product Quality Assurance group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are significant practitioners and authorities on SQA. They are well aware that SQA is a somewhat contentious subject and have offered to draft a neutral article on the current understanding and practice of SQA for Wikipedia. This may be a good way to move forward as they are a credible source without any commercial interests or biases towards or against standards (e.g. ISO) and methods. Before they expend effort on this, they would like to get some indication of interest from the community and if they would be accepted as a credible and neutral source of information on SQA. Dport ( talk) 19:04, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a list of recently deleted software articles? I want to know so that I can see if I can find sources and request their undeletion. Joe Chill ( talk) 22:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
It sounds like computer programming and software development fall under the scope of this project. Is that correct? If no one objects, I'd like to add those to the description of the scope. -- Pnm ( talk) 00:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Articles tagged using {{
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This will help WP Computing in three ways:
UltraSurf, discussed in depth (along with the Global Internet Freedom Consortium) in Beiser, Vincent (October 2010), "Over, Under & Through: How Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall — And Evade the Cyberpolice", Wired, 18 (11): 178–186. Probably other sources out there too. Not my subject area, so I'm hoping someone better versed might be interested. Cheers, postdlf ( talk) 15:13, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
People may be interested in Talk:Software development process#Proposal to merge Software development methodology here v2. Yaris678 ( talk) 19:44, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I'd appreciate more input on this merge discussion. It began in 2006 and I'd like to get it closed, but there isn't consensus for a merge or a rationale for disambiguating the topics. -- Pnm ( talk) 18:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I would like to request editorial assistance in arriving at consensus on the appropriate state of the article Comparison of platform virtual machines. Please see the discussion so far. Psuedonym 03:54, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I just stumbled upon this unreferenced article. I'm not a software guy and don't edit in this area. Thought you all might know what do with it. Best. 4meter4 ( talk) 08:12, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I just added a notability tag. Guy Macon ( talk) 21:47, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
ACCPAC has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 05:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate under consideration is the use in this table of the “ Hard disk drive” article of nomenclature such as “KiB”, “MiB”, and “GiB” to describe capacities. The governing guideline on MOSNUM is Quantities of bytes and bits. The quality of the discussion can be improved by broadening participation of the discussion. This will hopefully more fully achieve a consensus. Greg L ( talk) 17:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there any best practice for the number of software releases that should be show in the "latest release version" parameter of the {{ Infobox software}} template? I ask, because one editor is defending the display of four separate release version numbers at PostgreSQL. We have argued at Talk:PostgreSQL that only the current version of the latest release should be shown (which is after all what the parameter is named), as is currently the case in articles such as MySQL, Firefox, Joomla, Ubuntu (operating system) etc., all of which have multiple releases but he is having none of it. In an attempt to gain some consensus I would appreciate opinions from members of this project (who are very welcome to shoot me down if I'm the one who is wrong). -- Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator ( Talk) 20:11, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
I am writing on behalf of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). We have noted that the Team Software Process page is in need of updating. It is noted on the Team Software Process page that "This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2011)." The technical staff at the SEI has also uncovered several factual inaccuracies on the page.
In an attempt to help address these shortcomings and to ensure the page is accurate and up-to-date, we recommend that a number of factual updates and citations be made. We first and foremost welcome and encourage edits from the community. Please note that any edits made by the SEI will be sourced, justified factual changes that are made with the best interests of the Wikipedia community in mind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.28.14 ( talk) 15:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
People watching this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:Bash (Unix shell)#Further discussion. Cheers. - GTBacchus( talk) 05:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm considering adapting this useful template for more generic usage. Currently, 'A component of Microsoft Windows' is included by default. Adding an extra parameter would allow its use for components of other OSes. Perhaps there's already a suitable template available, in which case I'd be interested to know. If not, I think the template could be adapted in either of the following ways:
Thoughts? -- Trevj ( talk) 14:12, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, please help on how to fix this following article; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZextCMS and also remove old article from; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zext Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuxwire ( talk • contribs) 09:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Not too sure if this is the right project, but someone may want to take a look at PackML. It was written by the organization behind the 'product'. I have no idea what this talks about, but it's pretty clear it needs cleanup, a proper layout, a proper lead, etc. It seems to contain original research too, but I'm not sure. If anyone wants to take a look, and maybe initiate conversation with the user who created it (see bottom message), it would be appreciated. Cheers - CharlieEchoTango ( talk) 19:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am an employee on the corporate communications team at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). I’m seeking help in updating the outdated information that is currently in the Software_Engineering_Institute Wikipedia article. I’ve included links to several resources below that contain information about the SEI and programs, and technologies. Please feel free to consult these sources as you are making updates to the article.
Thank you for your help, Dana
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10182/1069538-28.stm
• Dr. Dobb’s Journal: http://drdobbs.com/222301637
• PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/216936/when_trusted_IT_people_go_bad.html?tk=rss_news
• Government Info Security: http://www.govinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=465
• Software Integrity Blog: http://blog.coverity.com/uncategorized/interview-with-robert-seacord-head-of-the-secure-coding-initiative-at-cert/
• Bank Info Security: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=823
• On Software Engineering: http://onsoftwareengineering.com/2010/12/03/cmmi-version-1-3-and-agile/
• About.com: http://adulted.about.com/od/learningorganizations/a/seicertificationatcarnegiemellon.htm
--CMUSEI (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CMUSEI ( talk • contribs) 15:20, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
Would any interested parties here like to take a look at HP TeMIP Software? I landed on it from the Random Article link yesterday, and one thing that jumped out at me was its complete lack of references (no Reference section, no inline citations, not even an External Links section). I added the References maintenance tag and Googled to find some reliable sources, but I honestly couldn't find one that fit the guidelines, so I then added the Notability template too. I realize Google isn't everything, so I brought this here in case anybody might know how to source this article; as it stands now, I don't know that it could pass a deletion discussion.
I've outlined all this on the talk page too. Cheers, Northumbrian ( talk) 14:30, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
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This notification pertains to the topic I started above. If an interested editor associated with the software project wishes to contest the deletion by removing the proposed deletion tag and then supplying the secondary sources that the article requires, please feel free to do so. Northumbrian ( talk) 21:23, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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Trevj (
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I was seriously considering CSDing this as advertising, bearing in mind the huge lack of RS I can find on it (see talk page). There seems to have been a lot of activity spamming it around forum sites very recently, including mention of targets for shipping it out .... I'm going to tag it as probably lacking notability, and PROD it, instead of going the CSD route. If any of you can find some decent RS for it, though, and maybe re-write it, please go ahead! Pesky ( talk … stalk!) 06:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Not sure if this project is still active, but I thought I'd ask this question anyway. I'm working on the article British Open Championship Golf, and I've run across a complication: its manual is a WinHelp file. I have no idea how to properly cite one of these, but User:Jinnai suggested that someone in this project might have had a similar problem in the past. Anyone have some advice? JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 04:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, there seems to be a dispute on the Android talk page... Basically, two editors do not agree that a release of the source code counts as a release of the software... I disagree, so I would like to invite anyone with some skills to that debate. Regards -- SF007 ( talk) 06:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
I was advised at The Village Pump to ask the following question here. If this is the wrong place, please let me know.
User:Sbmeirow recently added a portal box to software testing to a number of pages about computer hardware, such as ARM Cortex-M3, Single-board microcontroller and Embedded system. These appear to have only a tenuous connection to software testing. I don't want to accuse him of doing something wrong when I am unsure whether it actually is wrong, but it seems odd to list hardware in the software testing portal. Do these pages belong? -- Guy Macon ( talk) 16:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs article was nominated for GA review (at WP:GAN#COMP). Comments (and the review itself) are welcome! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 13:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I deleted a bunch of text from Mdadm that I do not consider appropriate for Wikipedia (per What Wikipedia is not). An anonymous user expressed some rage about my action on the article's discussion page, so I figured I would bring the matter here for additional attention and appropriate discussion. Dfeuer ( talk) 04:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Please comment on merge proposal at Talk:7-Zip. Thanks, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 19:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I assist in sorting stubs for Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub Sorting. Would an API (such as this stub) be classified as a computer programming tool or a computer library? I'm drawn to side of computer library, but I would like your opinion.-- Yutsi Talk/ Contributions 16:37, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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Several Netscape pictures have been nominated for deletion. You may be interested. See Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 March 17
65.92.181.184 ( talk) 03:29, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
This article is a one-liner about a Javascript library which I deleted after it was PRODded for lack of notability. That has been queried on my talk page by a user who says it is important, even revolutionary, and has "made most of my 10 years of web development experience obsolete"; so I have restored it, invited him to expand it, and now post here in case anyone is interested in helping. JohnCD ( talk) 16:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
As community manager participating to many conferences and JavaScript meetups, I must say that backbone.js looks to interest a lot of people and it is a topic that is often proposed by speakers. I invite you to have a look on Lanyrd to get an idea: Backbone.js search results on Lanyrd Alexandre.Morgaut ( talk) 13:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
The discussion about moving MindTouch Core to MindTouch (over redirect) is taking place. Opinions needed! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Why do we have one chrome article and endless versions of firefox floating around? Now firefox is on a rapid release schedule are we going to end up with many more articles breeding as versions come out thick and fast? -- Cameron Scott ( talk) 10:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I've started an AfD discussion about Altoros article (software developer business) and quickly got overwhelmed with an amount of editors who have no contribution outside the topic, so that I'm now unable to judge on the process from an unbiased point of view. Please give a glance the article and state your opinion in the discussion. The more uninvolved people will come there, the less tricky it will be to judge on consensus, as currently the amount of people (as opposed to accounts) participating in discussion is IMHO very questionable. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 12:01, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Software! The Firefox article is really outdated and in need of repair. It would be great if we could put together a team to help maintain it - or at least bring it up to date. Thanks ҭᴙᴇᴡӌӌ 15:12, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I've created a new article titled xdvi. It's still quite stubby. Have fun improving and extending it. Michael Hardy ( talk) 16:53, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
5 Steps of accounting information system and work process — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.120.8.67 ( talk) 03:43, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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This program has issues with malware, etc. I have used it and agree. I am very happy using it, and just ignore or fix the issues on my versions. See the talk page and article history. It seems that some believe the article should have a 'controversy' section with RS. I don't know which RS are RS for computer software articles though. There is a little more detail about my issues with it on ref desk/computers-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 17:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Anyone got an opinion on the new article RELAP5-3D? I have just come across it. I think it contains some stuff of value but as far as I can see there are 2 main issues:
However, I've not really worked on this sort of article before so I thought I'd get an opinion here.
Yaris678 ( talk) 09:15, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all! I’m working with the Saylor foundation to create a series of original, crowd-sourced textbooks that will be openly licensed and freely available on the web and within Saylor’s free, self-paced courses at Saylor.org. We are using Wikibooks as a platform to host this project and hope to garner the interest of existing members of the Wikibooks and Wikipedia community, as well as bring in new members! We thought that some of your members may be interested in contributing to our book Saylor.org's C++ Programming. Azinheira ( talk) 19:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
The request for comments regarding recent changes in template:infobox software is filed at Template talk:Infobox software#RfC: natural and programming languages labels. Input would be very appreciated. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 11:57, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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I just thought I'd let everyone know that Folding@home is now a Featured Article candidate. Please feel free to leave comments and voice your opinion one way or the other. Hopefully together we can proceed through the nomination swiftly. Thanks, • Jesse V. (talk) 14:25, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I have challenged the decision to award this article FA status over what I allege is a lack of balance and neutrality in the article. Fresh opinions and input are encouraged here. Quantumsilverfish ( talk) 01:41, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I have started an RFC at Talk:Ubuntu (operating system)#Ubuntu as "Adware". Please join the discussion there. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I removed a large portion of the Maple (software) page because I deemed it unfit for an encyclopedia. It was inserted again without further explanation. Am I missing something here? -- Ysangkok ( talk) 20:59, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm thinking of creating an article about Karl Wiegers, an author of several books on software requirements discipline. However, I'm not 100% sure the person meets the notability criteria. Could you help me define if it's true or not? -- ViseMoD ( talk) 18:59, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. Is there a manual-of-style or something for software articles? I ask as I just came across an article listing a piece of software's entire version history, which seemed to be in contravention of WP:IINFO, but I couldn't find any software-related guidelines to confirm this. I removed it anyway - it was constituting 50% of the article and was obviously overkill - just wanted the response loaded if questioned! Cheers, Nik the stunned 12:58, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Consider this edit at Plesk which is two people arguing over whether a long and detailed revision history, including quarterly point-releases, actually belongs in the article. I tend to side with the deletionist - at the very least it should be trimmed to just the major releases. What do the members of this project think? Is there guidance in any of the computing/software projects? -- Biker Biker ( talk) 21:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to introduce the Template:Version template to the Computing styleguide, with the goal to establish one standard for version history tables (or lists) on WP. It simplifies creation of release histories, standardizes release stages and makes the content more accessible:
Version | Description |
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1.0 | Old version |
1.8 | Older version, yet still supported |
2.0 | Current stable version |
3.0 | Future release |
Please comment on the template talk page (there already is some active discussion going on). Jesus Presley ( talk) 01:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could somebody comment here. Thank you. -- Mdd ( talk) 14:26, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
In recent weeks, I've been work on behalf of the company Mindjet, which makes mind-mapping software, to update their article here on Wikipedia. The article itself is relatively new, dating from earlier this year, and so the changes are fairly minor, despite a few big changes at the company.
I previously posted a request for editors to review my changes over at WP:Companies, but no one from there has been able to take a look at the article yet. One neutral editor has weighed in on the talk page, but would like input from other editors rather than making the changes unilaterally.
Given my COI on this request, I was hoping that someone here at WP:Software might be able to take a look at the changes that I've proposed over at Talk:Mindjet in order to reach a consensus about whether or not the changes seem appropriate and, if so, work with the other editor(s) to move the changes over into the mainspace.
If you have any feedback or concerns, please feel free to leave me a message here, over at Talk:Mindjet, or at User_Talk:ChrisPond. Thanks! ChrisPond ( Talk · COI) 14:16, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Can we get some eyes on this? My personal interp is that it is new and therefore not notable and seems to be advertising. Was thinking about afd but figured I'd raise the question here before I do Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 15:28, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
In recent weeks, I've been work on behalf of the company Mindjet to update the article for MindManager, one of their software products. There have been a number of rather significant changes over at Mindjet recently, and the current MindManager article is quite out of date.
I posted a request for an editor to review the article on Talk:MindManager; you can also view my proposed draft in my userspace at User:ChrisPond/Mindjet (software)
Given my COI on this request, I was hoping that someone here at WP:Software might be able to review my draft and, if appropriate, make the changes that I discuss on Talk:MindManager, including renaming the article and moving over the revised draft. I have also requested help for changes
If you have any feedback or concerns, please feel free to leave me a message here, over at Talk:MindManager, or at User_Talk:ChrisPond. Thanks! ChrisPond ( Talk · COI) 14:56, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
If anyone is interested in iOS-related subjects, the articles iOS jailbreaking, Cydia, SHSH blob, and Greenpois0n have a lot of active talk page discussions that would benefit from additional perspectives and opinions. A bunch of the discussions have been between just one other editor and me. Thanks! Dreamyshade ( talk) 01:53, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Evening All! Following a conversation/debate on the Firefox article regarding the screenshot, I have proposed a new section for the software screenshot guidelines. Basically, it's designed to deal with OS wars, and clarify the standard for what OS should display what screenshot (without being too rigid). Please would you have a quick look at my initial proposal and make suggestions, give feedback, and hopefully get things moving. I note from older talk sections there that this has previously been a topic of discussion, so hopefully we can clarify it sometime! Thanks. drewmunn ( talk) 10:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
There is a discussion about Talk:Microsoft Office 2013 licensing terms in progress and we need someone with access to source to confirm or deny the problem.
Best regards,
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Hi all,
after a style change of {{ LSR}} there's a discussion on wether to keep the change and use it for {{ LPR}} too, revert it or develop an alternative design for both. Some constructive feedback for the discussion would be welcome.
Furthermore you're invited to leave a vote for your favourite design or express your opposition against the others. -- Patrick87 ( talk) 20:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see WT:PHYSICS, where a discussion on creating an article on "transformation" is occurring. -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 21:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
File:Xfce-logo-big.png has been nominated for deletion. (are we allowed to use LGPL images?) -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 22:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
A proposal for a WikiProject Apps has been made at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Apps. As WikiProject Software is a related WikiProject, members of this WikiProject are invited to join the discussion. Thank you. XapApp ( talk) 02:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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image:OpenEmuHeroScreenshot.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 05:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
File:LG-WebOS.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 07:13, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Alan and I"m the marketing director at Couple. As to avoid any conflict I'm submitting to the community a request to add feature information to our page. Factual information only as follows:
1+ million downloads (crossed the 1m threshold in March: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/03/23/the-personal-social-network-couples-celebrates-its-one-year-anniversary-with-1-million-users/ ) Apple editors choice award (February 2013) Google Play staff pick (May 2013)
Features include: · Private timeline to build a shared history & remember all your special moments · Real-time messaging to express yourself through sharing videos, voice messages, and photo (with photo filters too!) · Send Secrets: private photos that no one else can see; even set them to disappear! · ThumbKiss™ when you want to be close: whether next door across continents touch the same spot on your phones to make them both light up and vibrate simultaneously · Sketch together in real-time: draw together simultaneously from a thousand miles away! · Make phone calls or Facetime from insite the app · Share to-do lists: real-time syncing from new date ideas to remembering milk at the store · Calendar reminders: schedule dates, automatic notification of birthdays, anniversaries, and important dates · Instantly share locations · Cross platform support
Contact info: Website: www.couple.me Support: http://support.couple.me/ Twitter: @CoupleApp Pintrest: pinterest.com/coupleapp Instagram: instagram.com/coupleapp
Please contact me ( alan@tenthbit.com ) with any questions, concerns, edits, etc.
Thanks for your help
-- 67.180.211.176 ( talk) 23:52, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
{{portal|Mozilla}} Portal:Mozilla has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 08:20, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Template:Latest stable release/Google Spreadsheets and Template:Latest stable software release/Google Spreadsheets have been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 02:30, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
This article has been tagged as unreferenced since Feb 2012, and I can't find the term "avalanche model" used in this way other than on Wikipedia. Rattle ( talk) 22:58, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Morning all! This kind of stems from a conversation we've had at the screenshot guidelines, but I'd like to expand it here in light of the Windows 8 article and its content. It was decided at the screenshots page that we should not allow screenshots of pre-release software unless they're from a reliable source (news site etc) and we're noting that they have been reported. The Windows 8 page now has a whole section devoted to the upcoming 8.1, a large percentage of which lists updates evident in leaked builds. My question is whether this information should be included (it does cite news articles), and if so, how the wording could be improved. Anyway, that's all for now! drewmunn talk 06:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Greetings all, I am looking for help with a request for the Blackboard Inc. article. Important to disclose: I am working on behalf of Blackboard Inc. to improve this article and address problems described by the warning tags currently in place. Because of my COI I will not make any edits to the article in the main space, hence my interest in finding other editors to review and, eventually, move a draft once consensus is reached.
I have been working on this new draft in my user space for awhile now and I am ready for other editors to review what I've prepared. If this is something you'd like to help with please take a look at the request on the Blackboard Inc. Talk page and my draft in my user space here: User:WWB_Too/Blackboard_Inc._(2013_revision). For anyone who is able to help, probably best to reply to me on the article's Talk page, which I have watchlisted. If anyone feels my draft needs additional changes, I'm very open to discussing that as well. Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 16:37, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
I just created an article about my company, Mocana. I've made every effort to source all the information and present it in a neutral tone, but would certainly welcome any feedback. -- Wurtis65 ( talk) 19:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Back in early June I helped create an article for Freddie A. Laker, the founder of the software company Guide. I'm now looking for help with three small updates to the article.
I'm asking here because my work on the project has been as a paid consultant to Guide. I've only edited the draft in my user space and now that the article has been moved live, after review through AfC, I would like to avoid making any edits to the article myself. I've left a more detailed note on the article's Talk page explaining the changes I'm hoping to have made. Please take a look if you're able to help. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 16:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
image:Volkswriter 2.2.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 08:12, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Several screenshots of MSWord are up for deletion, see Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2013_July_27 -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Also, more screenshots from Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 July 26 -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi All! Would you mind popping over to the Final Cut Pro talk page, where I've started an RfC on the differentiation between the eponymous software and Final Cut Pro X? Your views are very much welcome. Thanks in advance! drewmunn talk 12:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
image:Newton logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 05:15, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Freeware has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 06:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Last month in the Executable UML article a link was added to Umple in the "See also" section (see here), which was undone (see here) and restored (see here), etc... And since then there is a dispute about this link, see Talk:Executable_UML#Umple_and_Executable_UML. I hereby request for further comments on this matter on the Executable UML talk-page, thanks you -- Mdd ( talk) 10:58, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Notepad2Icon.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 03:54, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I submitted a WikiProject proposal for Project Vocaloid, which is, as the name implies, a project focused on Vocaloid-related articles, their improvement, and the addition of Vocaloid-related articles that currently do not exist. Since the Vocaloid/2/3 engines and the voicebanks for them fall under the term "software", I just came by to inform the project of its (potentially) being listed as a related project.
I wanted to make this an entirely new project because Vocaloid has many things related to it that would fall under several projects' jurisdictions. For example, tools used for Vocaloid animation (such as MikuMikuDance) or vocal synthesis (such as the Vocaloid engine) could fall under this project's scope, due to their both being pieces of software, but pages like MikuMikuDance would also fall under WikiProject Animation's watch, due to the software being a tool used for 3D animation, as well as being both a piece of software, and being related to Vocaloid. WikiProject Vocaloid would simply unify them all under one general category covering an entire topic.
I just wanted to give the project a heads-up that it'll (potentially) be shown in the "Related Projects" section of another WikiProject.
Have a nice day! N Studios 2 22:52, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there is an RfC opened at talk:Microsoft Minesweeper -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 10:11, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
image:VirtualMachineManager.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 06:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
-- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 07:46, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Screenshot of Style Jukebox on Galaxy Nexus.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 13:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
file:Python 3.3.2 reference document.pdf has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 03:39, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi all,
Myself and some other LabVIEW enthusiasts are keen to see the LabVIEW article brought up to speed and generally overhauled. It seems dated, a little subjective, it's certainly incomplete and less than complimentary.
We wish to conduct our modernization of the content objectively and sensibly, and expect a large proportion of the existing content to get modified. The current structure is not to our approval, so we wish to move sections about and move content between sections to accommodate a revised breakdown (something more akin to the MATLAB page perhaps, which appears to be better maintained).
Can I ask what the best approaches might be for us regarding these changes? We don't wish to spend a lot of effort performing adjustments to see them reversed by an auditor because they're too massive. Is there a generally accepted strategy for making major changes to a Wiki page?
Thanks in advance for any advice received,
ThoricCLA — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThoricCLA ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
As Chakra_(operating_system) is noted on its talk page as being supported by WikiProject Software, I would like to offer folks an opportunity to voice their opinions on an ongoing thread at Talk:Chakra_(operating_system)#Regarding_notability_tag....
Thanks in advance for your time and attention,
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 00:15, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I work for Good Technology. The article has had flags indicating problems for a couple years. It also had some small inaccuracies, and presented a pretty incomplete overview of the company's history. While I understand that I have a conflict of interest, I want to help improve the article according to Wikipedia's standards. I have recently made some edits and additions, making every effort to express a neutral point of view; I also added about 20 independent citations. I hope a more experienced Wikipedian can take a look at my edits and provide any needed feedback. ( previous version, prior to my edits)
Also, in the future I think it might make sense to merge the Visto article into this one, as the companies are now one and the same. - Karenarlenereynolds ( talk) 00:17, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I've nominated OpenOffice.org for FAC. Uninvolved reviewers for FAC would be most welcome. Or, if you haven't time for that, just looking over the article would be good :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 09:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
I work for Loomio and created a stub article on it in my userspace. It was quickly shifted to the live site by other editors. I'm new to wikipedia and am trying to follow Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest - Simontegg
Dear software experts. Can someone please take a look at the above submission at Afc? Even though I have had some experience in writing software, I can't tell if this article is describing the product in an encyclopedic fashion. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:48, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Consider my recent edit on Adobe GoLive, which was discontinued in April 2008. In fact, it is a perfect example of why I'd like to see this practice become standard. The final version was downloadable for almost a year after that version's stable release. So, let's add sentences such as that to the bottoms of Version History Tables, for Articles on discontinued products.
For active products (that is to say not discontinued, still actively developed and upgraded), I would also like you guys to look at the recent color code compromise (which is "pastel," essentially the same colors but in slightly lighter shades) over at Template:Version (click on the Template's Talk Page). This new compromise concerning the color code has not yet been implemented, but it will be implemented in a week or 2 if there are no further objections. The Mysterious El Willstro ( talk) 23:12, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm involved with the article BeerXML (as an advocate for software in brewing) I'd appreciate help with the article as I am not as well versed in software as in brewing. The article has been tagged for deletion by two users who object to its existence, although I know that brewing software is used daily by tens (if not 100s of thousands of people) Your views on whether the article should be given time to develop would be most welcome at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BeerXML Thanks - Devils In Skirts! ( talk) 19:36, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 01:21, 23 February 2014 (UTC).
Dear editors. I accidentally posted the same message. Wkmaster ( talk) 01:25, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear software experts: Is this a notable person, and should this old abandoned Afc submission be kept and improved, or deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:46, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
User reason for visiting this page. I need a list of free or quasi free pdf converters. The one I use on my laptop is pdf995. I forgot the name and so went looking for it on google and yahoo. It no longer appears on the first page of google, now it is on the second page.
Additionally, the authors of the wiki page for free pdf software or quasi free, FAILS to list pdf 995.
This is an excellent program and completely free. The only payment is looking at an ad.
I am not sure why you have not included pdf995. I have used it now for four years. for free.
Unfortunately, a list page of free software is very useful and I applaud the author or authors for their contribution, although not perfect.
The current problem, is that google is no longer reliable as it used to be. I believe my searches are more manipulated by them and things that used to pop us, no longer do.
One observation is that you get less links on the first page and some people, never make it to the second page.
Therefore, this wiki submission is helpful, even if it fails to include a very important free pdf converter, as pdf995 provides to the economical consumer.
thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.88.233.183 ( talk) 16:56, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
As I mentioned last year, I have updated and expanded the article on my employer, Good Technology with independently sourced content. I have done my best to address the concerns others had expressed about previous versions of the article, and expanded it in ways that are neutral and comply with Wikipedia policy; but I would appreciate any feedback from experienced Wikipedians. - Karenarlenereynolds ( talk) 17:49, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Can an expert pay some attention to this and fix the issues? Bearian ( talk) 21:37, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
While this section has an obvious cause - the article Cdrtools was recently inflated with lots of advertising material, including exhaustive comparison charts mostly containing obscure features such as Disc tattoo support, "support for all three Unix times"), platform support lists with obscure platforms (Atari MiNT support!!1!) as well as a huge download locations table, trivial command line examples ("To eject the media of the default optical disc drive, or just open its tray: cdrecord -eject") and almost 100 footnotes and references - I noticed that I could not find a WikiProject specific guideline of what contents are relevant for a software Wikipedia article?
In my opinion, we should have some (easy to find) guidelines on what is relevant for a software article. Much of the contents on above page should go to the software homepage, and not be maintained in Wikipedia.
In my opinion, all of these are inherently implied by the Wikipedia:Relevance of content guideline, but they could be formalized. This page also states:
More specific guidance on content may be provided by a WikiProject whose scope includes the article in question.
Maybe such a guideline exists, and I could just not find it?
I would also appreciate a third opion on the relevancy of contents in the cdrecord article. It has been subject to major edit wars (and yes, I have recently been involved), suffers from WP:COI, and in my opinion needs independent cleanup to make the article readable and useful. Maybe even by someone that does not use Unix and this software at all! In my opinion (see also Talk:Cdrtools), much of the contents are not relevant for Wikipedia, may constitute WP:OR, give undue weight on obscure features, and mostly serve the purpose of advertising cdrecord over the alternatives/forks that are currently preinstalled on major Linux distributions. This request is to get some clear guidelines on what the "majority" of Wikipedia editors consider to be relevant for a Wikipedia article, and what not; in order to have a guideline to resolve this dispute. Please use Talk:Cdrtools for discussion specific to cdrtools; and follow up here if it is about general guidelines? Thank you. -- Chire ( talk) 08:38, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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Dear software experts: This old Afc submission appears to have quite a few references. Is this notable software, and should the page be kept instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at KoodibooK. It has been marked as an orphan & I'm wondering if it meets the notability requirements - but I'm not very familiar with this area.— Rod talk 13:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
It's silly to have IBM Rational Rose XDE and similar stuff only in category "IBM software". That says nothing about what it does, in terms of categorization. I had trouble finding something suitable for Rigi (software). Basically there isn't a category for either reverse engineering or one for software visualization. And there are surely plenty of software products to fill both of these. JMP EAX ( talk) 22:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi – the Palringo article has a number of issues, mainly that it's very poorly referenced and gives undue weight to Palringo Groups. I've prepared a replacement userspace draft that is fully referenced and should tackle the issues that have been flagged. If someone could review it and feedback to me that would be much appreciated. In the interests of transparency I am declaring a conflict of interest in that I work for Bell Pottinger, a UK PR agency, and that Palringo is my client. I have made this clear on the article talk page and posted on COIN (since archived). Many thanks. HOgilvy ( talk) 10:49, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello software experts. Can someone take a look at this old draft an see if the references are reliable? The draft will soon be deleted under G13 if no one takes an interest in it. — Anne Delong ( talk) 11:24, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi! There is an ongoing AFD discussion regarding GoldBug instant messenger. Right now the only participants besides me are several SPAs that came via Twitter post and flooded discussion with long posts with no respect to Wikipedia policies. I urge some experienced editors to assess this article and weight in with policy-based comments. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk• track) 12:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#CatVisor and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Planned features if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 22:58, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
FYI, there's a notice about this draft article at WT:PHYSICS -- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 08:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, could somebody please take a look at Mailpile and assess its notability please. I don't think there is enough extensive coverage from reliable sources to pass WP:GNG, so should be deleted. What's your view? Thanks, JMHamo ( talk) 21:52, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
The usage of GNU/Linux ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see WP:RFD for the disucssion -- 70.51.46.146 ( talk) 05:58, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
The meaning and usage of "software package" is under discussion, see talk:Package (package management system) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 05:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
See proposal on infobox talk page:
This proposal was made, and not done previously: Template talk:Infobox software/Archive 3#Source Code Repository Field. I'd like to revive the change, which I have commenced through opportunity for discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Software, as well as with a specific diff of the proposed edit.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattsenate ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
hi!
I haven't enough permission to update the logo image for All My Movies. The existing one is outdated. It wasn't used for several years. Can someone set this image as the logo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15499178/amm_logo180.png ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxic9 ( talk • contribs) 19:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Could use some more opinions here: Talk:Yet Another Cleaner#This page should not be speedy deleted because... -- NeilN talk to me 20:04, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Should all tables in WikiProject Software articles use the same date format? If something like that would be a viable new guideline, which date format should be used (MDY, DMY or ISO)? What about the tables collapsed by default? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 01:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Date_formats allows five day-specific date formats for use in tables:
Above formatting symbols as in glibc [5]. %e includes padded blank, and is used for day of the month (1...31)
Base | Page(s) | Table | Current format | Reason | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | Debian#Timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Best format (awaiting decision) | Converted from YYYY-MM-DD to D MMM YYYY, while the article text used "MMM DD, YYYY" and "D MMM YYYY" on 2014-02-05. Promoted to good article using D MMM YYYY on 2014-06-24. |
Debian | Aptosid#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Bharat Operating System Solutions#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Canaima (operating system)#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from policy-violating MMM YYYY, D[D]. |
Debian | Finnix#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with finnix.org release information and with references. |
Debian | gNewSense#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | HandyLinux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | Converted from MMM DD, YYYY in table, harmonization with references that used DD MMM YYYY (French, English, false spelled English). |
Debian | Pardus (operating system)#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Pending | |
Debian | Ubuntu (operating system)#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Kubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Lubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu, Kubuntu and format in image | |
Debian | Xubuntu#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. | |
Debian | Poseidon Linux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Linux Mint#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Freespire#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from MMM D, YYYY, harmonization with Ubuntu and Debian articles and avoidance of having US and European format in one article. | |
Debian | Knoppix#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Skolelinux#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from text that used MMM D, YYYY to table that uses ISO 8601. Harmonization with articles about Debian-based systems. | |
Debian | Kanotix#Release timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Debian | Damn Small Linux#Release timeline | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
Gentoo | Gentoo Linux#Versions | No | MMM D, YYYY | ||
Pacman | Manjaro Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | SUSE Linux distributions#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | OpenSUSE#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux#Version history | No | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux#Product life cycle | Yes | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | CentOS#Versioning and releases | Yes | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Scientific Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Fermi Linux#Releases | Yes | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Oracle Linux#Release history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Yellow Dog Linux#Releases | Yes | D MMM YYYY | ||
RPM | Berry Linux#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from policy-violating YYYY MMM D[D] | |
RPM | Korora (operating system)#Version history | No | MMM D, YYYY | ||
RPM | Aurora SPARC Linux#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from MMM D, YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD, harmonization with Fedora Core. | |
RPM | Mandriva Linux#Versions | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | ||
RPM | Mageia#Version history | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD | Converted from D MMM YYYY, harmonization with Mandriva Linux and avoidance of having US and European format in one article. | |
Slackware | Slackware#Releases | Yes | YYYY-MM-DD |
From this discussion, the following decisions should be made:
There is a divergence between technical readers that understand ISO 8601 and general readers that would rather use a word-based format. While I am inclined to use ISO 8601, this encyclopedia is for everyone. Debian was promoted to GA-class using a word-based format on June 24, 2014, and it is the only good article in the list above. Decisions are not made by vote; good articles represent better what an article should be and are the model for non-good articles to follow. Thus, I give in to a word-based format, but I will not defend this position. 84.127.82.127 ( talk) 18:58, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Reply to User:84.127.82.127
This whole ISO date format thing needs to be discussed. A whole bunch of articles becomes partially converted to the ISO date format with little to no discussion. Any chances, 80.134.94.228, to discuss that first, please? Per WP:ENGVAR and WP:ARTCON, articles shouldn't be changed that way. — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 02:10, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
80.134.94.228 ( talk) 20:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
We need information to make proper decisions. Let us gather the reasons why each article is using its date format. I have provided the reason for Debian, and added the Windows articles and OS X to the table; please do not add more changelog entries, because users that care about history use "View history". 84.127.115.190 ( talk) 02:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
I removed Windows and Mac. Both are owned by US based companies, while Linux is much more international. 91.9.103.21 ( talk) 08:07, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
FYI {{ Source code}} has been nominated for deletion -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 06:55, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Windows X. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 06:31, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello software experts. This old AfC submission has quite a few references. Is this a notable topic, and should the page be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 06:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello @ Orubel: is looking for help with his article Draft:API Chaining. There have been concerns over the notability of this software, I am hoping someone here can provide further assistance, or may be more aware of where to find more reliable sources. Please engage Orubel directly, with advice and guidance. His other article API Abstraction has survived a Prod but this one did not originally survive AFD.- McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 21:16, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion concerning who developed the BASIC programming language at Talk:BASIC#Sister Keller. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been contributing to Software & Computing related articles for a long time. I would like to get started in rating articles. I'm fairly unbaised in my approach which is why I usually cleanup, wikify, copy-write paras, rm advert-statements, neaten up articles, improve sections, reorder sections, and so on. I think I would be a good examiner, and I'm sure there are heaps of unrated articles or articles that could be re-rated.
I spoke to @ SuperHamster: about this and he/she said that my ratings seem "solid", but I'd like to write here to (a) verify if my ratings are fine, (b) learn how to rate articles properly (yes I've read the quality assessment scale) and (c) find the list of unrated articles so I can do my thing. Copied below is the excerpt of the discussion.
Hi folks - User:NeviRom stopped by my talk page and asked me to look at an article they rewrote in their sandbox for AVS Video Editor. The article was deleted, rightfully so, due sourcing and notability concerns. I'm not as knowledgeable in the subject area of video editing software. Can someone take a look here and perhaps give NeviRom some feedback? I can't tell if the sources are reliable or not...or if it meets the guidelines necessary for determining notability for such a subject. Thanks a lot! Missvain ( talk) 17:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Since the guys over at
Talk:Inkscape want to degradedowngrade Inkscape 0.91 to an unstable preview release, please
chime in and voice your opinion.
Regards, -- Patrick87 ( talk) 17:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Please keep Inkscape-related discussion on Talk:Inkscape, no need to spill over to here and fragment the discussions. And please stick to actual arguments, rather than insinuating personal attacks or unwillingness to listen. If you can't make progress, seek additional dispute resolution. -- intgr [talk] 12:47, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AUCS Linux. - Ahunt ( talk) 20:08, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Help appreciated with this table. -- Nemo 14:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Just looking to get some preliminary pointers on my draft article here before I let the AfC review decide its fate. I realize the notability thing might be a stretch, especially since I don't have any material to build a development section like a lot of other sofware articles have, but I tried my best to make do with what I found-- if you guys in WP:SOFTWARE have recommendations past this point, I'd love to know. BlusterBlaster kablooie! 21:35, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointers, guys. For the record, @ Peteforsyth: I'm not affiliated with jsr in any way, I'm just familiar with the software as someone who does music production-- I guess it comes at a risk that my prose would be biased since I really like FamiTracker, but I've been making doubly sure to keep it NPOV. I didn't figure that really uncontroversial or plainfaced technical details being cited back to the developer's website would be a huge issue; per WP:PRIMARY, stuff like that being cited from the developer's own mouth is okay as long as we're not putting any "spin" or interpretation to it that isn't through a secondary or tertiary source's lens.
@ Kvng: I did see a couple of the articles you suggested before, but I was hesitant to add them based on the fact that a lot of them are republishing/parroting info from Gamasutra's interview of Kaufman re: Shovel Knight, and I wouldn't really be able to do much with the same info in different places as far as I know. Still, thanks for going to the trouble of finding those sources. Later on today I'll see if I can put them to use. BlusterBlaster kablooie! 13:19, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Okay, I'll keep that in mind and try to reinforce the draft based on that principle. Thanks again, you're all so nice! One more question for @ Kvng: What did you mean by "removing the revision history"? BlusterBlaster kablooie! 17:23, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
I asked this on WPMUSIC but I was directed to go here, so here I am again.
I'm building an article for the iOS music sequencer app Auxy, but I'm just trying to figure out how to describe what kind of music-making app it is, because it kind of operates as a combination of a piano roll and drum machine/sequencer sort of thing like a Korg drumpad... no RSes describe the app in more specific terms than a "music app" that I've seen, but would calling it a "sequencer"-style music editor app or something like that suffice? I dunno if I'm splitting hairs at this point and should just call it a "sequencer" app. Opinions? BlusterBlaster kablooie! 16:40, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the input, guys - this is what I've worked out so far on this draft, so let me know any suggestions you have for it (right off the bat I can definitely say it needs images of the app icon and a screenshot for the infobox, but AFAIK I can't upload any images until this goes live and outside of userspace, so I'm holding off on uploading those until then). BlusterBlaster kablooie! 16:09, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Stella is an app for depicting geometrical shapes called polyhedra. It is widely used by polyhedronists but, because little has been written about it per se, it is difficult to provide citations to support its notability and it has been templated for possible deletion. I am sure that this issue must dog other apps which might be popular in their field but little known outside of it. Is there any Project guideline or core of wisdom on what kind of citation material to look out for? Any practical help would also be much appreciated. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 17:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi.
There is a move request at Talk:Virtual disk § Requested move 11 July 2015, which I believe concerns this project. (It is not automatically listed in WP:SOFTW/AA.) Participants are welcome.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
19:38, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Software. There is a Request for Comment on the Uber article Talk page regarding the description of the company's growth and history in the article. Since I think the article is of interest to this WikiProject, editors here may want to join the discussion. The question under discussion is how Uber's history might be best summarized within subsections. Craig at Uber ( talk) 20:18, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a RfC on the topic of software notability at Wikipedia talk:Notability (software). Interested editors are requested to comment. :) ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 09:16, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm looking for editors interested in software companies. If anyone here is willing and interested, I'd love to get another perspective on a proposal I've put forward to redirect the Citrix Online article to the Citrix Systems article. I am working as a paid consultant to Citrix, so I won't be making any edits to the article. I would like to discuss possible blanking and redirection over here on the article's talk page. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 20:48, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, everyone. Our fellow Wikipedian User:Ians18 has engaged in a number of edits that I find highly controversial; they are being discussed in Outlook.com § Requested move 17 August 2015. I believe we need additional input. A summary of the dispute is as follows:
Traditionally, both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App / Outlook on the web had four modules: Mail, Calendar, Contacts (or People) and Tasks. But Ians18 changed the names of Outlook.com, Calendar (Microsoft service) and People (Microsoft service) into Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar and Outlook People and merged Outlook Web App into Outlook.com. He initially said that they are actually renamed, but now has retreated to the position of "their rename is announced and will definitely happen". I, however, cannot see any of these and believe he has taken too much for granted, is sailing too close to WP:CRYSTAL, and his point of view is badly influenced by being an Office 365 user.
Additional input is welcome. Fleet Command ( talk) 12:08, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello computer software experts. This old AfC draft appears to have references. Is this a notable software company, and are the references suitable?— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:44, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Umm, frist i will like to talk about we the teeneagers who wanna learn haking.I am pleading with the wikipedia to help us and bring us to the world of hackin thank you am ahmad adams fro nigeria — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.68.78 ( talk) 20:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
It seems to me that some information about Importance is missing:
I question the validity of recent edits in Computer Program and would like comments from other editors. Timhowardriley ( talk) 19:58, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
I have posted a request edit on the Talk page requesting consideration of a ~10 paragraph draft as a more complete/neutral/researched page. The article's content has indications of likely conflicted editing in the past and I think this will put it in a better place. Any thoughts from folks familiar with software pages would be welcome. Cheers. David King, Ethical Wiki ( Talk) 06:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed that Autodesk Fusion 360 is missing on this page:
/info/en/?search=Talk:List_of_3D_modeling_software
It's commercial and free for hobbyists/students. (And awesome btw). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.143.220.105 ( talk) 20:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC) (Wikipedia confuses me a lot, someone please delete this after adding the software to the list. Sorry.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.143.220.105 ( talk) 20:28, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
In different circumstances, product website urls are distinct from their source code urls. It would be helpful to amend the Infobox for software, to include:
| website =
example
| source code =
example
Not particularly certain on how to SandBox that proposal, as it appears locked. Thanks! --Elika Kohen 02:38, 12 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elikakohen ( talk • contribs)
I prodded it, but the creator argues ( Talk:Fldigi) it's notable in light of WP:NSOFT. It's not my area of expertise, the sources look weak, but before I go to AfD, I'd like a 30 from here. AfD or not? What do you say, software experts? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:04, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Fldigi is notable enough that it is in the " Ham Radio for Dummies " book as the simplest way to start decoding digital signals. To quote the book: "By far the most popular program of 2014 is Fldigi, by W1HKJ." (among soundcard-digital modem software)
kf4yfd ( talk) 06:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Only describe one very small aspect of a huge IEC 62304 standard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.75.211.6 ( talk) 19:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:List of software forks. Joerg Schilling insists the cdrtools/cdrkit fork happened in 2004 not 2006, won't provide a third-party RS and claims the third-party RS that does exist ( LWN.net) isn't good enough. Poster is also being abusive and using the talk page for possibly BLP-violating personal attacks on others. He first raised this a few years ago and couldn't provide RSes to support his claim then either. I realise he feels quite strongly about the issue, but that doesn't make his view an encyclopedic claim, and doesn't licence the abusiveness. Could others please have a look at the issue in case I'm actually completely wrong? - David Gerard ( talk) 16:37, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Someone has made a request to merge WPiOS inot WPAppleInc, for the discussion, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject iOS -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 05:28, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi !
Not quite sure which portal or project is maintaning the the infobox and templates for software articles, so i'm asking that question here. At GeoGebra i noticed the peculiar behaviour that the version display is stuck at 5.0.180 and doesn't match anymore the value that was entered via the linked template which is currently at 5.0.187. Does anybody know why that is and how to fix that?-- Kmhkmh ( talk) 22:33, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi.
A person with at least two different IP addresses ( Special:Contributions/84.153.129.232 and Special:Contributions/84.153.152.170) has been engaged in edits that seems to me ... well, biased (Windows-phobic) and poorly sourced ( WP:SPS, a newsgroup) in the following articles:
I have reverted him once and he has counter-reverted, with some rather ... well, some remarks. Now, I don't want to form an ad hominem bias myself, so I'd be grateful if another editor review those edits.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
11:25, 25 December 2015 (UTC)