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== Notability ==

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== Some Proposed Changes ==

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I have a conflict of interest with Chapel, so cannot make these changes myself, but propose the following improvements:

* updating the externalwebsite linkfrom to pointhttp://chapel.cray.com to Chapel's GitHub repository (https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel).org ratherto thanreflect thea SourceForgerecent repository(fall which2017) ceasedchange to bein the primary project's repository in 2014URL.

* <del datetime="2016-09-29T10:42">updating the external link to point to Chapel's GitHub repository (https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel) rather than the SourceForge repository which ceased to be the primary project repository in 2014.</del>

* <del datetime="2016-09-29T10:52">fixing the formatting of, or removing, the trademark (TM) symbols on the references to the Cray MTA / XMT extensions to C and Fortran in the "influenced by" section on the sidebar. In my Chrome browser on my laptop, they appear as "Cray MTATM /XMTTMextensions to..." rather than "Cray MTA (TM) / XMT (TM) extensions to..."</del>

* updating the "first appeared" date on the sidebar to an earlier year. 2003 is when the project started (httphttps://chapel-lang.cray.comorg/publications/PMfPC-Chapel.pdf) and was publicly announced. The earliest commits to the source repository were in 2004 (https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/graphs/contributors), the first by-request release was in 2006 (httphttps://chapel-lang.cray.comorg/publications/PMfPC-Chapel.pdf), and the first public release was in 2008 (https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/master/CHANGES.md#version-08). I'm not sure what the current 2009 date refers to, but it seems misleadingly recent.

* updating the introductory text to refer to the DARPA HPCS program (which wrapped up in 2012) as where Chapel originated from, but not what drives it today (httphttps://chapel-lang.cray.comorg/publications/PMfPC-Chapel.pdf, httphttps://chapel-lang.cray.comorg).

* adding a reference to the Chapel Chapter from MIT Press' "Programming Models for Parallel Computing" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/programming-models-parallel-computing) to the "Further Reading" section (this is the PMfPC-Chapel.pdf document I referred to in the previous bullet).

Thanks for your consideration.

[[Special:Contributions/136.162.66.1|136.162.66.1]] ([[User talk:136.162.66.1|talk]]) 04:07, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

{{Reply to|136.162.66.1}} {{Partly done}}:

* Replaced [[Template:SourceForge]] with [[Template:GitHub]] in external links. ([[Special:Diff/741739593]])

* Formatted infobox <q>influenced by</q> section, dropped trademark notations and wikilinked to articles. ([[Special:Diff/741740560]])

As for the other three points I believe most of the statements are true. <cite>Programming Models for Parallel Computing</cite> is a [[WP:PRIMARY|primary source]], as the book author Bradford L. Chamberlain seems to be a <q>Principal Engineer at Cray Inc.</q> I will hold this edit request for another review by another author. [[Special:Contributions/80.221.159.67|80.221.159.67]] ([[User talk:80.221.159.67|talk]]) 10:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)