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Move discussion

Talk:GBA_(disambiguation)#Requested_move_13_April_2018 Jytdog (talk) 03:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion regarding infoboxes on ARM architecture article

Discussion regarding information and amount of infoboxes on ARM architecture article, see

Talk:ARM_architecture#Why_is_Cortex_(only)_mentioned_in_the_32-bit_architecture_infobox Jonpatterns (talk) 20:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WONTFIX

The redirect WONTFIX, which currently targets Bugzilla, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 April 29#WONTFIX. Your comments in the linked discussion are invited. Thryduulf (talk) 12:03, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have added Bugzilla#WONTFIX which I hope helps resolve this. Any improvements to this new stubby material are welcomed. ~Kvng (talk) 11:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

HTML errors in computing articles

The wikitext parser is going to change in June, and any page with an error may display strangely. I'm going through Special:LintErrors, and I've found some high-priority errors in articles tagged by this WikiProject.

What's needed right now is for someone to click these links and compare the side-by-side preview of the two parsers. If the "New" page looks okay, then something's maybe technically wrong with the HTML, but there's no immediate worry. If that column looks wrong, then it should be fixed.

The first list is all "deletable table" errors. If you want to know more about how to fix these pages, then see mw:Help:Extension:Linter/deletable-table-tag. Taking the first link as an example, there is highlighting in the wikitext that shows where the lint error is; it's in the large table. It's broken now, and it will be slightly less broken then, but it should get fixed. I suspect that the problem is with the |-|} at the end.

This second list is "misnested tags". See mw:Help:Extension:Linter/html5-misnesting for more information. The highlighting for the first link indicates that the problem for that article is in the infobox. From what I've read, I'd guess that the problem is the line breaks, and I'd bet that those parameters have span tags added by the infobox (span tags can't handle line breaks).

Note that the highlighting from the lintid code won't work reliably after the article has been edited, so for pages with multiple errors, it's best to try to fix them all at once. For more help, you can ask questions at Wikipedia talk:Linter. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:19, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nextdoor redraft for consideration

Hi,

I've redrafted a problematic article, Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network. Although I am an independent editor, I am a paid consultant to Nextdoor. As such, it would be greatly appreciated if an independent editor could review my proposal at: User:BC1278/sandbox/Nextdoor I have also started a discussion at: Talk:Nextdoor#Request_for_Review

Thanks BC1278 (talk) 21:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]

Scene 7 FAR nomination

I have nominated Scene7 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leefeni de Karik (talk • contribs) 04:18, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Title issue: the first electronic computer to run a stored program

Please spend a few minutes to review the issues at Talk:Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine#Requested move 24 May 2018 and weigh in on whether Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine ought to be moved to Manchester Baby. Dicklyon (talk) 15:20, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed with an article: Olivetti M20

Hi, I wrote draft about an old computer: [1] However, my English language skills are weak, so I´m not brave enough to move it to the mainspace right now. Can someone look at it and correct spelling errors, rephrase incomprehensible sentences or remove excessive details? Thanks! Pavlor (talk) 06:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was bold and moved the article to the mainspace. Any corrections/changes are of course welcome. Pavlor (talk) 18:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. — The Transhumanist 10:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mojito application directory structure?

Hi! Could someone from this project take a look at Mojito (framework)#Application Directory Structure? It looks very odd to me, like a Wikitable gone wrong, but it was apparently inserted in just this format. Perhaps there is a better way to display this information. Thanks! NotARabbit (talk) 04:16, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of computer is this a picture of?

I'm trying to identify this image from Commons. What is this? Some kind of Apple? bd2412 T 19:47, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It may be some Mac clone, or even generic PC (eg. regular keyboard, two button mouse). The image is too small to say more... Pavlor (talk) 05:15, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

Please join the discussion on what sources would be adequate for what claims on this time-sensitive article. We have the problem that countless sources point in the same direction, but the usual sources for such aggregate information fail to provide it. --Nemo 07:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Computing article alerts stopped

... Seems to have stopped ... for about a week ... maybe kick a bot? I've put an entry on Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Bugs#Computing alerts stopped but if anyone has any ideas or better ideas ? Thanks. Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:46, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please join the [[Talk:Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market#Sources|discussion]] on what sources would be adequate for what claims on this time-sensitive article. We have the problem that countless sources point in the same direction, but the usual sources for such aggregate information fail to provide it. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
+== Computing article alerts stopped ==
+... Seems to have stopped ... for about a week ... maybe kick a bot?  I've put an entry on [[Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Bugs#Computing alerts stopped]] but if anyone has any ideas or better ideas ?  Thanks. [[User:Djm-leighpark|Djm-leighpark]] ([[User talk:Djm-leighpark|talk]]) 17:46, 16 July 2018 (UTC)