Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Computer hardware task force
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Welcome to the Computer Hardware task force of WikiProject Computing.
The user moonythedwarf is currently working on reviving this task force, and may pass out a talkpage message if they believe this task force would be in your interest.
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Scope
The Computer Hardware task force exists to centralize efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of related matters, to include:
Participants
Alphabetically listed:
- Abhilash Mhaisne (talk · contribs)
- Andrewcrawford (talk · contribs)
- ATMarsden (talk · contribs) - general maintenance work on AMD CPU-related articles, though I also did some restructure work on Skylake-related articles.
- Daviddwd (talk · contribs) Incoming Computer Engineering PhD student
- Extide (talk · contribs)
- Guy Macon Electronics Engineer
- Helixsoft (talk · contribs)
- Joseph507357 (talk) Tech at school
- Kai Tak (talk · contribs)
This user participates in WikiProject Computing.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computing/Computer_hardware_task_force
intro
Hi, I am Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, i very rarely touch a shift key, i use my full name deliberately to avoid the american-biased search engine algorithms something along the lines of "oo look it's three words therefore it must be a name let's apply some brain-dead conventions to it".
i recently noticed that wikipedia has information on protocols with which i am familiar, from my work on Samba TNG. in particular, i noticed that a lot of people just... haven't got a clue: the dozens of different services running over a dozen or so totally distinct protocols that make up windows nt networking are all glommed in people's heads into one of three specific protocols: NetBIOS, NETBEUI or SMB aka CIFS.
this i find particularly irritating, because it's a bit like saying "hi i want an Internet Protocol and i want it to be on HTTP" - the sentence makes absolutely no sense, and will irritate the crap out of any experienced TCP/IP networking guru. it's also a bit like... oh, say... blaming DHCP for the problems associated with Spam, because you can obtain a networking address from a DHCP server, and as soon as you do so, lots of crap email arrives.
anyway, here's a list of the pages i've been involved in editing. i'm maintaining the list at the mo for my own evil purposes and i hope you find it useful too.
bug in Wikipedia
actually Wikimedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399385 forced to unsubscribe from the bugreport as it got dangerous. PTSD triggered
lkcl page edits
Miscellaneous
- Role_of_microglia_in_disease - as I have Asperger's and have been abused, tortured, violently assaulted and had brain damage at birth requiring life-support at 2-6 weeks, this is a relevant topic for me.
- Consciousness - pretty good, accurately reflects how much of a mess human understanding of the concept is
- Turing test - whoa this is a big page, and reflects accurately again how much misunderstanding there is of Turing's work.
- Open-source_car
Computing hardware
- Vector processing - pretty good, but contains novel "tutorials" - very useful ones. there are other mathematical articles around with similar tutorials so is ok
- Libre-SOC - being developed (done, thanks User:Henriok) - watch links Special:WhatLinksHere/Libre-SOC
- Out-of-order_execution - not in a good shape, quite unclear
- Scoreboarding - factually incorrect, needs a lot of editing. done most of it.
- Single_instruction,_multiple_threads - a bit of a mess, not intentionally, there is just not any public information. ILLIAC IV was the first key SIMT machine
- Single_instruction,_multiple_data - big mess, clarifying.
- Predication_(computer_architecture) - masking is frequently confusing because in array Processors that have SWAR ALUs mask bits can apply to individual PEs, and then totally separately: also on sub-words of the PE's SWAR. moo.
- TX-2 - world's first SIMD! 1958! even predates the term SIMD. cool!
- Transputer - really should have the ALICE network and the PARAM 8000 in the page
- Permute_instruction - naming gets horribly confused. not a mathematical permutation at all due to duplicates being permitted!
- Gather/scatter_(vector_addressing)
- Flynn's_taxonomy - found 1972 paper with additional categories not well-known
- Duncan's_taxonomy
- OpenPOWER_Microwatt
- Massively_parallel_processor_array
- TI_Advanced_Scientific_Computer
- ETA10
- Reservation station
Computing software and protocols
- NetBIOS
- NETBEUI
- Server Message Block
- Distributed Computing Environment
- DCEThreads
- MSRPC
- DCE/RPC
- FreeDCE
- Named Pipes
- The Open Group
- DCOM
- Samba TNG software
- Samba software
- Pyjamas (software)
- Google Web Toolkit
- Rich Internet application
- moonythedwarf (Braden N.) - Focus on Motorola, Zilog, and other older hardware manufacturers' projects.
- Mr. Guye (talk · contribs) though I don't expect to be particularly active — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 16:18, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- Mu301 (talk · contribs) – mostly computer history related pages.
- § Music Sorter § (talk) - Specializing in storage articles, especially solid-state devices and related technology
- Ozhu (talk · contribs)
- P.Srinivas (User talk:Pysrinivas.peddi.619]])
- <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk)
- Tinucherian (talk · contribs)
- Veikk0.ma (talk · contribs) – mostly interested in virtual reality hardware
- Vivekvc (talk) 21:21, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Todo
Todo items for members of Computer Hardware task force
- Tag related articles.
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
- Identify articles for creation
- Identify articles for improvement
- Review importance and quality of existing articles
- Category:Wikipedia requested images of computer hardware
Todo items for anyone
Guidelines
Tagging and assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Computing. You may also find {{WikiProjectBanners}} useful. To each of these banners, you should add |hardware=yes
as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories, such as Category:Computer hardware articles. Also consider adding |hardware-importance=xxx
at the same time with xxx
matching (or different in your assessment) the |importance=xxx
entry already present. Otherwise once the |hardware=yes
is added the importance entry gets set to unknown.
{{WikiProject Computing |class= |importance= |hardware=yes |hardware-importance= }}
Categories
The following categories are currently under the Computer hardware category. If there are areas not already identified, please consider adding the related category to the tree.
Templates
You can help maintain this list! (see Category:Computer hardware templates)
User pages
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Outreach/User Computer Hardware task force}}
Infobox
- {{Infobox calculator}}
- {{Infobox chipset}}
- {{Infobox computer hardware}} (for components without a more specific template)
- {{Infobox computer hardware bus}}
- {{Infobox CPU architecture}}
- {{Infobox CPU}}
- {{Infobox CPU socket}}
- {{Infobox custom computer}}
- {{Infobox GPU}} (i.e. graphics processing unit)
- {{Infobox information appliance}} (i.e. computers and other information appliances; Note: {{Infobox computer}} redirects here)
- {{Infobox keyboard}}
- {{Infobox storage medium}}
You can help maintain this list! (see Category:Computer hardware infobox templates)
Stubs
Place this code on any article which is a computer related article that is currently considered a stub. That will automatically add it to the category for computer hardware stub articles. Remove it once it is classed above a stub article.
You can help maintain this list! (see Category:Computer hardware stubs)
Project Articles
{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|hardware=yes|hardware-importance=}}
Computer hardware articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
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3 | 3 | |||||
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1 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 30 | |
B | 22 | 48 | 59 | 53 | 27 | 209 | |
C | 26 | 172 | 348 | 552 | 175 | 1,273 | |
Start | 6 | 68 | 350 | 1,025 | 481 | 1,930 | |
Stub | 6 | 86 | 468 | 511 | 1,071 | ||
List | 2 | 4 | 13 | 78 | 44 | 141 | |
Category | 307 | 307 | |||||
Disambig | 10 | 10 | |||||
File | 5 | 5 | |||||
Project | 6 | 6 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 2 | 13 | 53 | 315 | 384 | |
Template | 58 | 58 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 58 | 306 | 881 | 2,241 | 701 | 1,244 | 5,431 |
Unassessed | 108 | 108 | |||||
Total | 58 | 306 | 881 | 2,241 | 701 | 1,352 | 5,539 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 21,855 | Ω = 4.84 |