Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Microsoft Windows. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.
[edit] Scope
Welcome to WikiProject Microsoft Windows! Microsoft Windows is the world's most used and most well-known general-purpose operating system, and has a history spanning over twenty years, works on everything from telephones to data centers, and is the subject of one of the most intense love/hate relationships in the history of technology.
Our mission is pretty simple:
- Gather together and organise every article Wikipedia has on Microsoft Windows,
- Continue to work on improving the quality, neutrality, accuracy, and informative value of the prose, and
- Co-ordinate and brainstorm on what the best ways are to accomplish these things.
[edit] Parentage
This project's parent WikiProject is WikiProject Computing.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
[edit] Participants
- -/- Warren 04:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Cwolfsheep 21:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
- RN 23:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Myselfalso (talk)
- FLaRN(talk)
- Bennyboyz3000 (talk)
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
While there are no Windows-specific Infoboxes on Wikipedia at present, we do use a few existing templates:
- {{Infobox OS 2}} is used on main Windows operating system articles, e.g. Windows NT. Yes, there's some subtle irony in an Infobox titled "OS 2" being used for Windows articles. :-)
- {{Infobox OS version}} is used on Windows operating system articles that concern a specific version, e.g. Windows Vista.
- {{Infobox Software}} is sometimes used on articles describing applications and utilities included with Windows, e.g. Windows Mail.
- {{Infobox file format}} is sometimes used on articles describing file formats commonly used with Windows, e.g. EXE.
[edit] Stub templates
NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.
- {{Windows-stub}} - Note that this should only be used for stuff in the operating sytem itself, not third-party programs
- {{Microsoft-stub}} - Anything else Microsoft-related
[edit] Other templates
- {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows}} belongs on every talk page for every Windows-related article.
- {{History of Windows}} belongs at the bottom of any main article about Windows operating systems, including forthcoming releases (e.g. Windows "Vienna") and articles about releases that were discussed by Microsoft, and in the press, but were never released (e.g. Windows Nashville).
- {{Microsoft}} covers stuff mostly outside the scope of this WikiProject, but any article about a Windows technology in that template needs the template at the bottom of that article.
[edit] Categories
Here's a breakdown of the categories this WikiProject aims to cover:
[edit] Lists
These lists are Windows-centric:
- List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces
- List of Microsoft Windows versions
- List of Microsoft Windows components
These lists have Windows stuff in them:
- List of Microsoft server technologies
- List of Microsoft software codenames
- List of Microsoft operating systems
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles on Microsoft Windows
[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Microsoft Windows
Please feel free to list your new Microsoft Windows-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
[edit] Did you know?
[edit] Article improvement drive
[edit] Collaboration of the week
[edit] Peer review
[edit] Featured articles (and candidates)
- Architecture of the Windows NT operating system line
- Microsoft Data Access Components
- Windows 2000 - FA status some time ago. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- Windows XP - Featured since February 2005
[edit] Featured lists (and candidates)
[edit] Good articles (and candidates)
[edit] Screenshots and logos
It's really important that we get the license and fair use rationale on all copyrighted images and logos we intend to use. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows/Licensing for a short essay and reference for using screenshots and logos of Microsoft Windows in the encyclopedia.
