Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security
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WikiProject Computer Security
WikiProject Computer Security is a collaboration of editors to work towards better coordination for Computer Security related articles. If you are interested, or are a computer security professional, please feel free to add your name to our list of participants.
Scope and Goals
WikiProject Computer Security is a collection of pages devoted to the management of computer security articles on Wikipedia. Articles that were under the scope of WikiProject Malware and Computer and Information Security Task Force have been transferred over. We aim to help set up standards of organization and presentation for articles on:
- Articles dealing with Software Vulnerabilities and Exploitation (Viruses, Adware, Spyware, etc.)
- Articles dealing with Software Security tools
- Articles dealing with Information Security issues
- Articles dealing with Managing Security (Assessment, Certification, Accreditation, etc.)
- Articles dealing with Computer Security Legislation and Standards
Project navigation
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{{User WikiProject Computer Security}} |
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Project participants
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join this project.
Active
- DanielPharos (talk) - 4 November 2008
- Jclemens (talk) 04:00, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- DPdH (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- Deadrat 2 October 2012
- The Grumpy Hacker (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- Kvng 15:52, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- WikiGopi (talk) August 25, 2014
- Falcon Darkstar Momot (talk) 06:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Maxim Stoyalov
- zazpot (talk) 21:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
- Aragorn (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
- Littlecat456 (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- Vicente Aceituno Canal - 3 February 2020
- WallabyWombatLet's Talk! 07:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
- BoldLuis (talk) - 17 May 2020.
- Tom (talk) 18:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- W1tchkr4ft 00 (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- DecorumForum125 (talk) 24 September 2021
- AlchemistsFire (talk) 21:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Somers-all-the-time (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- Yaakovaryeh (talk) 19:44, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- Autarch Autarch (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Nemoveritas (talk) 17:17, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
- Bibamad (talk) - 17 July 2023
- Lilliraune (talk) 15:48, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- CybersecChloe (talk) - 21:59, 30 December 2023 (UCT)
- MrLavoie (talk) - 20:03, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- User:NoneTheFewer (talk) - 13:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- EnEsBeetalk to me please im lonely :( 00:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Brandon (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- mcgyver5 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Tule-hog (talk) 20:31, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 09:27, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- ShreyasMinocha (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
Userbox
Userbox template
Participants of this WikiProject can add this Userbox to their User page:
WikiProject Computer Security is a participant in WikiProject Computer Security. |
To add the Userbox insert the following to the your user page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security/Userbox}}
Todo list
- Review importance and quality of existing articles
- Identify categories related to Computer Security
- Tag related articles
- Identify articles for creation (see also: Article requests)
- Identify articles for improvement
- Create the Project Navigation Box including lists of adopted articles, requested articles, reviewed articles, etc.
- Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Tagging and Assessment
Templates
Tagging
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Computer Security:
Computer Security: Computing Unassessed | ||||||||||||||||||
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To tag an article insert the following to the top of the discussion page of the article:
{{WikiProject Computer Security|class=|importance=|computing-importance=}}
Articles already in the computing wikiproject can be added to the computer security project by adding security=yes and security-importance= parameters to the computing banner template. For example:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|security=yes|security-importance=}}
Assessment
Articles assessed for quality: 100% complete | |
Anyone can assess articles (regardless of membership to the WikiProject) by adding or editing the class
and importance
parameters to the {{WikiProject Computer Security}} template on the talk page of a tagged article. Assessments can be specifically requested (or the process discussed) on the Computer Security/Assessment page.
Project Articles
Computer Security articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
GA | 4 | 9 | 14 | 27 | |||
B | 5 | 31 | 47 | 52 | 5 | 140 | |
C | 27 | 192 | 242 | 380 | 43 | 884 | |
Start | 11 | 132 | 296 | 827 | 248 | 1,514 | |
Stub | 17 | 73 | 430 | 197 | 717 | ||
List | 8 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 42 | ||
Category | 230 | 230 | |||||
Disambig | 8 | 8 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 21 | 21 | |||||
Redirect | 14 | 17 | 47 | 208 | 286 | ||
Template | 34 | 34 | |||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 8 | 8 | |||||
Draft | 42 | 42 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 398 | 693 | 1,771 | 561 | 497 | 3,963 |
Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 43 | 398 | 693 | 1,771 | 561 | 498 | 3,964 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 15,887 | Ω = 4.84 |
Quality scale
The quality scale is the WikiProject computing scale.
The B-Class criteria are: (1) referenced; (2) coverage; (3) structure; (4) grammar; (5) supporting materials; (6) accessible language.
Importance scale
Importance | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Core articles which are a "must have" for Wikiproject Computer Security. High-traffic articles which many people outside of computer security will already have a good knowledge of. |
Computer security, Computer insecurity, Firewall, Malware |
High | Most people interested in computer security will be familiar with the topic, and the article gives context to a number of other information security articles. Is mentioned by many books and academic papers, and discussed in detail in more than one. | Port scanner, Bruce Schneier |
Mid | Known to many people interested in computer security, even if not in detail. | Chaos Computer Club, Snort (software), Morris worm |
Low | More specific and specialized content known only to some people interested in computer security. Most individuals, standards and software projects will be low importance unless they are well known or have high adoption. |
CloudFlare, Datenschleuder |
Article watch
Categories
One of the important activities of this project is to manage the list of Categories related to Computer Security.
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 03 Jan 2025 – SLUBStick (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TheTechie (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 24 Dec 2024 – Cydoor (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BryceM2001 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 05 Jan 2025; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
Redirects for discussion
- 02 Jan 2025 – Triple dub (talk · edit · hist) →World Wide Web was RfDed by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 07 Jan 2025 – Fortinet (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Brandon (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 07 Nov 2024 – Information assurance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Information security by Joereddington (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Sep 2024 – Privacy-invasive software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Spyware by Jdcooper (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2024 – Norton 360 (2006–2014) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Norton 360 by Tule-hog (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Feb 2024 – Pretty Good Privacy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Feb 2023 – Security kernel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Dec 2021 – Illegal opcode (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chatul (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 11 Dec 2024 – Draft:Piratas Unidos Argentinos (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ing.Parolari (t · c)
Recent changes
List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
10 January 2025
- diffhist Draft:CHERI (computer architecture) 12:30 +33 BenLaurie talk contribs (Better reference for CHERI standardisation.)
9 January 2025
- Deletion log 18:41 Justlettersandnumbers talk contribs deleted page Talk:2024 Cyprus cyberattacks (G8: Talk page of deleted page "2024 Cyprus cyberattacks") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 18:41 Justlettersandnumbers talk contribs deleted page 2024 Cyprus cyberattacks (G5: Created by a banned or blocked user (Cypriot Chauvinist) in violation of ban or block) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Draft:CHERI (computer architecture) 18:01 +414 Beachweak talk contribs (Declining submission: nn - Submission is about a topic not yet shown to meet general notability guidelines (be more specific if possible) (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:CHERI (computer architecture) 16:37 +161 BenLaurie talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft talk:CHERI (computer architecture) 16:37 +66 BenLaurie talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft:CHERI (computer architecture) 16:35 +1,432 BenLaurie talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --)
- diffhist Template:Information security 06:05 +7 TheDragonFire talk contribs (Link directly to redirected pages) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Authorization 05:57 −3 TheDragonFire talk contribs (WikiProject assessment) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
5 January 2025
- Deletion log 00:45 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Cydoor (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cydoor (XFDcloser))
- Deletion log 00:45 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Talk:Cydoor (G8: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cydoor closed as delete (XFDcloser))
4 January 2025
- diffhist Category:Category-Class Computer Security pages 21:47 −3 JJMC89 talk contribs (removed Category:Category-Class Computing articles; added Category:Category-Class Computing pages using HotCat)
- diffhist Cyber espionage 07:24 0 Bunnypranav talk contribs (Post move cleanup) Tag: Visual edit
- Move log 07:23 Bunnypranav talk contribs moved page Cyber spying to Cyber espionage without leaving a redirect (Requested by Abovfold at WP:RM/TR: Want to reverse a redirect. The proposed name has become the common name vs the existing one which appears to have generally fallen out of favor. Would have been bold and done it, created technical request because the proposed name exists as a redirect to the current name. See [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cyber+espionage%2CCyber+spying&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&c...) Tag: pageswap GUI
- Move log 07:23 Bunnypranav talk contribs moved page Cyber espionage to Draft:Move/Cyber spying without leaving a redirect (Requested by Abovfold at WP:RM/TR: Want to reverse a redirect. The proposed name has become the common name vs the existing one which appears to have generally fallen out of favor. Would have been bold and done it, created technical request because the proposed name exists as a redirect to the current name. See [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cyber+espionage%2CCyber+spying&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&c...) Tag: pageswap GUI
High-quality content
The featured articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are the best articles in Wikipedia, and the status which all articles should eventually achieve. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Bold article names have been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article".
The following computer security related articles have been deemed Good Articles, which places them two tiers below Featured Articles.
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