Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer networking

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  • Information must be moved from the parent page Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computing.
  • Infoboxes need to be defined, and consensus needs to be reached. Research the current infoboxes present on networking related articles. Scroll down
  • Top-level categories must be identified and cleand up.

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[edit] Cleanup

I initiated a cleanup, most of the original content remains however many template elements have been removed. --Bruce 10:11, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

This section is reserved for collaborative editing of computer networking related infoboxes. Eventually the individual infoboxes on this page would be converted into templates, contributions would be appreciated. --Bruce 12:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Hardware specific Protocol specific
Network Interface Card (NIC)
OSI Layer(s) 2. Data link layer

[edit] Discussion

Add any additional comments
i propose we create a Networking_Protocol infobox based on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Country_or_territory but clearly less big , fileds to be included should contain : layer , transport , ecapsulation , etc--Mancini 18:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finding a parent

I just posted a message concerning this subject to the WikiProject Computing talk page, you can find it here. --Bruce 10:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey guys. What are we waiting for? The WikiProject Computing is the obvious parent, allthough Wikipedia:WikiProject_Telecommunications also is related. The computing project seems to be much more active. What's the procedure for moving the computer network stuff from that project to this? Mange01 13:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I have now assigned it WikiProject Computing as parent. Hope you did not mind. And that I have not missed updating some instance with this information. Mange01 00:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Just want to point out that there are quite some pages under Telecommunications that actually fit under Networking , and ther are articles in both categories , i guess that is the way to go nowdays that telecom and networking entwine !? --Mancini 16:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

I just made this template:

"Bus" network topology This article is part of WikiProject Computer networking, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Computer networking on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Portal:Computer networking
 Computer networking Portal
Computer networking To-do:

--Prittglue 20:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Use the following code: {{cnproj|class=B|importance=mid}}

Great.
All articles have class B and importance mid. What other categories can we use?
Why is this still not mentioned on the project page?
I'm novice. why does the template refer to the protal and not the project page? Whats the difference between a portal and a project, and what should be on the discussion page and on the main page of a portal and a project respectively? Mange01 13:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Edited Bus.png to add transparency , too bad it will not show in IE , make a note to use gif format in the future--Mancini 18:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Up0-interface

I am currently working on de-orphaning articles and I ran across the article on Up0-interface. Although the article is not tagged as part of your project, it appears as though it could belong to this project. If I am wrong, please let me know and I willt ry to find where this project belongs. Should this article belong to your project, assistance would be greatly appreciated in de-orphaning this article (introducing at least 1 link to this article in another wikipedia article). -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 16:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I changed the tagging to the WP:TEL project, and de-orphaned it. I am not clear on why it needs an expert - I see no controversy in it. Mange01 23:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
That was my bad. I was a little confused on how to get another project to look at it. I am working on a project to de-orphan thousands and thousands of orphaned articles and did not have enough knowldge of the subject matter to find appropriate articles to link to it from. Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 23:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Addition?

[edit] Modem

I've just been over at modem. It's part of WikiProject Computer networking. So it "should explain ... (what an IP address is) "? And the same would be true about an article on Netbios? I don't think that's a very good suggestion. If you want to have a project on IP networking, you should change the name. If you want to have a project on general networking, you should pull the IP stack and OSI layer out of the template. 218.214.148.10 05:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)(david)

Perhaps that is only an example in what a specific article might include, i.e. one dealing with routing, etc. I see on the project page it says:
"Networks rely heavily on protocols and that is the primary focus, but may also include models (e.g., OSI model), hardware and applications..."
So I assume it would depend on the article. →James Kidd (contr/talk/email) 05:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misleading name for article: Segmentation and Reassembly

Segmentation and reassembly is a general concept, which in the article is instead linked to a particular instance of the problem, namely ATM. This is at least misleading if not plain wrong.

The information should be probably integrated into the Asynchronous Transfer Mode article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.75.157.145 (talk) 13:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Infobox oа Russian Wikipedia

I read, that you have problem with protocol infobox. I created in RuWP an protocol infobox (example) with following fields:

  • Abbreviation (as a caption of infobox)
  • Full name
  • Image (if exists)
  • OSI Level
  • Protocol suite
  • When was started
  • Port / ID
  • Purpose
  • RFC and/or STD
  • Main implementations (clients and servers)
  • Extensibility
  • Main extensions

Sorry for my not very good english and thanks for cooperation. - Member of RuWP WikiProject Computer networking VasilievVV 17:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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