Category talk:Wikipedians by programming language

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User categories for discussion This category was nominated for deletion or renaming on 25 July 2007. The result of the discussion was keep. The discussion may also be here.
Pleae note that this discussion was moved from a category formerly known as "Wikipedian programmers," which was merged with this one.

I would appreciate it if someone would tell me what I did wrong to end up at the start of the list instead of in alphabetical order. Nahaj 21:44:57, 2005-09-09 (UTC)

You included a space before the N, which will thus list you under the space character; which precededs A as far as ASCII/UTF are concerned. I've corrected your user page - hope you don't mind. Mindmatrix 22:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't mind at all. Thank you.

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[edit] Requests

Please put requests for a particular language in this section:

  • Request
    • Filled!

[edit] Non-programming languages

Some of the subcategories just don't belong here. For example, HTML and XHTML are document markup languages, not programming languages; CSS belongs somewhere in this area as well. I hereby propose to create a "Wikipedian document markup users" category into which to move these. And add TeX and LaTeX while at it. What about RTF? Do enough people code in it to be worth it?

Also, two others in here that don't really qualify as programming but are hard to classify otherwise: XML and Regular expression (re). -- Smjg 11:02, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't know enough about XML to say (as far as I understand it is complex data definitions & storage), but regular expressions allow actions to be performed, so that looks like programming to me.
  • A working definition a programming language is that it be Turing complete. Regular expressions don't qualify for that either. squell 12:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
HTML/XHTML & CSS don't exactly belong here. The templates I made for these categories don't list the users as programmers (unless someone changed them). As for RTF, no one writes it by hand unless they are making a RTF editor. So to summerize: CSS, HTML/XHTML and RTF are all presentation layer, while XML, regular expressions deal with the actual data layer (I consider dealing with data programming). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 20:21, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
So to you, typing data into a database constitutes programming? :-) Anyway, most of the category pages at the first level below this one use Template:Usersprogram, which uses the word "program" - I changed the HTML and XHTML ones the other day. Is it worth creating a corresponding template for markup languages? -- Smjg 13:20, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
That's data entry. Also, no one outside of a developer writes raw XML. I also forgot to mention SQL, which is considered a programming language. I am in favor of the creation of Category:Wikipedian document markup users or Category:Wikipedian document markup authors. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:45, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Any views on spreadsheets / Excel / VBA? Fintor 12:19, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use a separate babel box?

Notice how Category:User instruments has a way for people to keep their instrument skills separate from their language skills.

Shouldn't we have a similar mechanism for to keep our (programming/formatting/data manipulation) language skills separate from our natural language ones?

Jamie 23:45, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Parent cat

Is it necessary to have this underneath Category:Wikipedians by language? I mean, it's not a language that people use to directly communicate with each other, is it? No one writes love letters to their sweetheart in Java... right? —ScouterSig 21:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)