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Contents 1 About this portal 2 Topics from 2005 2.1 New Computer Science Stub 2.2 WP:MSNB 2.3 WikiProject Computer science 2.4 Improvement Drive 2.5 Fix Me 3 Topics from 2006 3.1 Cut detection 3.2 Information Technology and Computer Science 3.2.1 New Title? 3.3 Internet Portal 3.4 WikiProject Programming languages 3.5 Fair use image 3.6 Main Page Categories? 3.7 Selected articles 3.8 Related portals 3.9 Selected article for how long? 4 Topics from 2007 4.1 List of computer hardware companies 4.2 Ping 5 Topics from 2008 5.1 Retrofit topic headers 5.2 About: About this portal

[edit] About this portal

The "Portal:Information technology" is a collection of many special (non-article) Wikipedia pages (with prefix "Portal:") that attempt to present an organized view into hundreds of articles about the general subject of information technology. There are over 540 portals on other subjects (see general description: Wikipedia:Portal). This portal was begun in June 2005, but improvements are always welcomed, within the current structure, as it evolves. Although the portal pages are designed to help navigate into article groups, readers can still use the Wikipedia search option (at page left) to hunt articles by any words used inside an article. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Topics from 2005

[edit] New Computer Science Stub

hey, guys: New template: comp-sci-stub . thank you ABCD Use appropriately. I was horrified with the use of computer-stub. Thanks.

Project2501a 19:48, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MSNB

I have started a Microsoft Notice board. Anyone interested in joining in? - Ta bu shi da yu 05:28, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I hope that the only use for your notice board is "DO NOT RUN WINDOWS" Project2501a 01:10, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) :D

[edit] WikiProject Computer science

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science is starting up. Please add it to the WikiProjects list. Quinobi 19:21, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement Drive

The articles on Multimedia and Sysop are currently nominated to be improved on WP:IDRIVE. You can add your vote there to support the article.--Fenice 09:34, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fix Me

There is a link to the Technical Communication category under both Computing and Information Technology. Probably doesn't need to be listed twice.

[edit] Topics from 2006

[edit] Cut detection

My first contribution to en.wikipedia. Someone help me please with revising, correcting typos and grammar and finding suitable categories, backlinks and literature. --Thetawave 16:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information Technology and Computer Science

This portal seems to combine IT and CS fairly extensively, which I think poses a real point of confusion for visitors. There are big differences between the two fields — I have a degree in CS and my brother-in-law has a degree in IT, and our areas of expertise hardly overlap at all.

If it's really supposed to be Portal:Information technology, I think it should be confined to IT; if it's going to include both IT and CS, it should be moved to a more topic-neutral location (such as Portal:Computing), or split into two portals (Portal:Computer science and Portal:Information technology). --bmills 17:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Title?

Computers are used for both computational purposes and informational purposes. It's confusing to use a specific title like Portal:Information technology when both types of topics are included. The same problem would also be present if it is changed to Portal:Computing. I doubt Portal:Computer even makes sense since computing goes beyond just computers with analytical engine and calculators as well as since information goes beyond just computers with telephone and search engines. On the other hand, spliting into Portal:Computer Science and Portal:Information Technology would mean that things like cryptography may not fit clearly into one or the other. 3Laws 22:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

If a clear guideline could be established, it would help to disentangle the List of computing and IT abbreviations... 207.53.228.121 (talk) 17:50, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Internet Portal

I've just created Portal:Internet, please contribute! Computerjoe's talk 16:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Programming languages

Please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages to the list. Ideogram 06:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image

I removed the screenshot in the selected article section, as it was a violation of Wikipedia's fair use policy. Please remember that fair use images can only be used in the article name space (the main page though is an exception)--☆TBC☆ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 09:14, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page Categories?

On the front page of this portal it list Turing Award under categories. shouldnt that link to Category:Turing Award laureates. Just a thought, i havent been over here for very long and do not want to change this if this is the way its intended to be. --Altrock78 04:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles

The first one was floppy disks, then Java and I've updated it to be OpenBSD since noone else too any initiative with it and put something else worth reading up. Janizary 03:09, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Related portals

well, Internet, Technology and Free software seems ok, but why Apple Macintosh? Are macs really that important? even more important than Linux and PCs? Sounds a bit as if the apple marketing department... 86.129.185.215 22:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected article for how long?

OpenBSD has been a "selected article" on this portal as long as I can remember.

New content regularly seems appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Preacherspoker.com (talk • contribs) 16:18, 21 December 2006

[edit] Topics from 2007

[edit] List of computer hardware companies

List of computer hardware companies is up for deletion because it duplicates a category. Your input is needed. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ping

Does anyone actively participate in this portal? /Blaxthos 05:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I check it often, but dont feel my english skills is good enough to do any editing :( - Espenan 01:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so. The featured article was supposed to change about June 2006. -71.170.1.101 02:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Further to the recent MfD, who are the nominal maintainers of this portal? - Neparis (talk) 03:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Topics from 2008

[edit] Retrofit topic headers

16-March-2008: There hasn't been much discussion here over the past year, so I just grouped the older topics using level-1 headers as "Topics from 2005" (etc.) to emphasize age of topics. Older topics might still apply, but using the tactic of yearly headers to note the age helps avoid rehashing old news, without archiving any ongoing issues. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] About: About this portal

16-March-2008: I have retrofit the short topic "About this portal" near the top of the discussion to orient new readers to the concept of the portal (in case they miss "What is a portal?" on the overview page). That orientation blurb precedes the long discussion topics, and it alerts readers that hundreds of articles have been linked from these information-technology portal pages, to give readers some idea of how many related pages they face. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)