Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force

This is computer networking task force, a place created to better organize information in articles related to computer networking. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Computer networking article guidelines

The general style guide for computing articles Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing should be followed.

Content

Common elements

Each networking technology article should include a minimum set of standard elements, as follows:

• General description
• References and external links. cite sources!
• Appropriate categorization. See Wikipedia:Categorization.

Organization

Here are a few ideas for how to organize articles. These do not necessarily have to correspond to the actual section headers and divisions, and they are no more than suggestions. Conform to them to help improve the article in question.

A protocol specific article:

• History of the protocol
  • Who started it
  • When was it started
  • What revisions were there
  • Any related or defining RFCs?
• What other protocols were kept in mind when designing this protocol? (e.g., TCP to SCTP)
• Packet structure
• Any related technical discussions (e.g., fragmentation and reassembly for IPv4)

A hardware specific article:

• What is it used for (what protocols, versions, etc.)
• Hardware features
• List of manufacturers & models

Templates

Talk page project template

{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|network=yes|network-importance=}}

Stubs

{{Compu-network-stub}}

Infoboxes

This task force has not yet created any infoboxes. Consult the talk page for more information.

Userboxes

{{User WikiProject computer networking}}

This user is a participant in the
Computer networking
task force.

WP 1.0 Assessed Articles

Computer networking articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL			2				2
GA		1	1	5		1	8
B	9	18	28	17		5	77
C	14	127	326	293		77	837
Start	4	35	327	812		292	1,470
Stub		1	23	264		335	623
List		4	24	15		7	50
Category					198		198
Disambig					8		8
File					1		1
Project					8		8
Redirect		2	12	64	236		314
Template					31		31
Other					33		33
Assessed	27	188	743	1,470	515	717	3,660
Unassessed						3	3
Total	27	188	743	1,470	515	720	3,663
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 14,684			Ω = 4.87

Tasks

See Category:Computer networking articles needing expert attention.

• Interior Gateway Protocol: The link state vs. distance vector material is not appropriate here, because those ideas are not specific to IGPs. Maybe merge the remaining material (of which there is very little) into routing protocol? Or can people envision more material for this article? --Nethgirb 20:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Access network: This article might be of interest to the networking task force. Please consider triage. Hvaara ^T∞C 11:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
• Improve accessibility and reduce length of Communications protocol ~KvnG 17:03, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• Improve Ethernet toward good article based on reviewer suggestions ~Kvng (talk) 14:37, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
• Network scheduler improvements as discussed on talk page ~Kvng (talk) 14:37, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Completed Tasks

• Routers
• Host (network)
• List of suggested topics for computer networking research: Not even sure what this is supposed to include. Items the reader should learn more about? Items Ph.D.s should be spending their time on? Possibly delete, (]]List of computer networking topics]] is gone) and expand greatly, producing an article in the style of List of computing topics. But keep in mind we already have List of Internet topics. --Nethgirb 20:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

This was moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Outlines/Drafts/Outline_of_computer_networking. ~KvnG 17:03, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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