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.

Shortcuts:
WP:WINDOWS
WP:MSWIN

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

Contents


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 servers in 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.



Project divisions

Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Participants

  1. iguana_nirvana14 (talk · contribs)
  2. -/- Warren 04:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  3. Cwolfsheep 21:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
  4. RN 23:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
  5. Myselfalso (talk)
  6. RN
  7. Bennyboyz3000 (talk)
  8. V60 VTalk - VDemolitions
  9. Darthnader37 21:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
  10. 18:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Windows! Windows! Windows! My Mum Is Getting Windows Vista Soon! I Cant Wait!
  11. Jdlowery 23:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  12. Briantwigley 19:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  13.  Kai81123  ►  13:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  14. RedSpike101 15:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  15. PCGamer176 11:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  16. Sam Jones 19:58, 3rd April 2007 (GMT)
  17. Soumyasch (talk • contribs)
  18. Wenli 22:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
  19. Chetblong 20:32, 1 May 2007 (GMT)
  20. • master_sonTalk - Edits
  21. User:thefirstM
  22. DanielLeicht 15:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
  23. Jrdaigle1000 19:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
  24. MichaelR. I wish I knew about this WikiProject sooner!
  25. 15:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
  26. Johnnywalterboy
  27. Sasawat 20:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  28. Astroview120mm 05:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  29. Jackl 09:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  30. Mugunth 09:14, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
  31. 01:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  32. Brianreading 17:08, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
  33. Shokwaav 11:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
  34. Josh (talk | contribs) 01:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  35. talk 21:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
  36. jeh (talk | contribs) 03:31, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
  37. User:patrolman89 I use Windows XP and Vista.
  38. KlaasNekeman (talk) 01:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC) (Acheron on MSFN) - Windows 98 section
  39. —Signed by I use Vista and have much experience with it and XP.
  40. Flaminglawyer (talk · contribs) Using XP with Royale
  41. A. S. Castanza (talk · contribs) Vista user since Longhorn beta 1 :)
  42. Stephenchou0722 (talk · contribs)
  43. Alden or talk with Alden 21:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC) I use XP Pro and Windows Vista Home Premium as my operating systems.
  44. xpclient Talk Edits 14 May 2008
  45. Tyw7, formerly Troop350 (talk) 06:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
  46.  10014derek  Ӂ  - Aero 4ever
  47. Hellboy2hell (talk · contribs)
  48. Vinodalways
  49. Tmwerty
  50. Lir2008
  51. Icelilly

Templates

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.

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 system itself, not third-party programs
  • {{Windows-software-stub}} - Note that this should only be used for third-party programs
  • {{Microsoft-stub}} - Anything else Microsoft-related

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.

Userbox

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows/Userbox}}:
This user is a member of
WikiProject Microsoft Windows.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows/Userbox2}}:
This user uses the Windows operating system and is part of the corresponding WikiProject.

Categories

Here's a breakdown of the categories this WikiProject aims to cover:

[−] Microsoft Windows
[+] Windows 95
[+] Windows 98
[+] Windows administration
[+] Windows code pages
[+] Windows communication and services
[+] Windows components
[+] Windows disk file systems
[+] Microsoft Windows file system technology
[+] Icons of Microsoft Windows
[+] Internet Explorer
[+] Windows Me
[+] Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
[+] Windows NT
[+] Windows people
[+] Screenshots of Microsoft Windows
[+] Microsoft Windows security technology
[+] Windows Server
[+] Windows Server 2008
[+] Windows Vista
[+] Windows 7
[+] Windows XP
[+] Microsoft Windows stubs


Lists

These lists are Windows-centric:

These lists have Windows stuff in them:

Articles

Wikipedia articles on Microsoft Windows

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.

Did you know?

Article improvement drive

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Featured articles (and candidates)

Featured lists (and candidates)

Good articles (and candidates)

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.

See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microsoft_Windows"

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