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{{short description|Sub-project of WikiProject Computing}}

Some [[Wikipedian]]s have formed a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|project]] to better organize information in articles related to '''Computer networking'''. 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 [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|talk page]] and see the [[Wikipedia:to-do list|to-do list]] there.

{{WikiProject status|inactive|taskforce=yes|parent=Computing}}

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This is '''computer networking task force''', a place created to better organize information in articles related to [[computer network]]ing. If you would like to help, please add your username at the bottom of the {{slink||Participants}} section below and take a look at the {{slink||Tasks}} section for improvement ideas.

==Information==

For more information on WikiProjects, please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProjects]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices]].

===Scope===

Covering all articles related to [[computer networking]]. Networks rely heavily on protocols, and that is the primary focus, but it should also include models (e.g., [[OSI model]]), hardware, and applications.

Like all good Wikipedia articles, each computer networking article should explain the basics (such as what an IP address is) as well as the technical details (such as packet structure).

===Related WikiProjects===

==Title==

'''*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject on ComputerInternet|WikiProject networking'''Internet]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science|WikiProject Computer science]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications|WikiProject Telecommunications]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Software|WikiProject Software]]

==Scope=Participants===

*{{User|Zscole}} [[TCP congestion control]], [[Software-defined networking]], [[SD-WAN]]

<!-- The SCOPE of your project is its most important attribute.

*{{User|Stutya}}

This is where you tell people *precisely* what is is you are doing and why.

*{{User|Cburnett}} 18:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

This is where BOLDNESS is proven. -->

*{{User|Vap0rtranz}} &mdash; [[heterogeneous networks]], technical translation, [[helpdesk]], [[Linux]]

*{{User|Mange01}} 08:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC) &mdash; [[Scheduling algorithm]]s, [[physical layer]] and [[data link]] layer issues, [[wireless]] communication.

*{{User|Mancini}} 16:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC) much of the articles under [[:Category:Network management]]

*{{User|Boscobiscotti}} 04:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC) [[Ethernet over twisted pair]], [[IEEE_802.11]], [[VLAN]] [[Ethernet Switch]]

*{{User|thefirstM}}

*{{User|akc9000}} [[Routers]] [[Host (network)]] [[Routing protocol]], IMP June 2007, monitoring [[Routing]]

*{{User|Namanmishra10000}}

*{{User|Naveenpf}}

*{{User|Denis tarasov}} wireless networking, traffic enginering, sattelite communications, Ethernet, MVDS etc.

*{{User|Staffwaterboy}} 12:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

*{{User|Lanilsson}} [[Wireless_mesh]] 22:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

*{{User|Tinucherian}} 08:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

*{{User|Melab-1}} 23:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)~

*{{User|Pgallert}} routing and switching, general principles

*{{User|QuackCD}} ([[User talk:QuackCD|talk]]) 01:30, 7 January 2009 (UTC) VoIP and other Voice-y type Network Topics.

*{{User|kgrr}} 22:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC) IEEE member, wireless network engineer, phy/mac, switching, networking, Wi-Fi...

*{{User|Koman90}} 22:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

*{{User|Andrewcrawford}} - Majortiy of networking from thoery to pratical - BSc Comptuer Networking

*{{User|Kvng}}

*{{User|Gl1d3r}}

*{{User|W163}} Jeff Ogden, aka W163 22:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

*{{User|Tenretnieht}} : IPv4 , IPv6 , DNS , DNSSEC , [[Classless Inter-Domain Routing]]

*{{User|Nageh}} bits across everything :) 13:42, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

*{{User|W Nowicki}} May 2013

*{{User|Ozhu}} 19:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

*{{User|HLachman}}, programmer from a different century. July 2013.

*{{User|Ngriffeth}} 19:49, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

*{{User|IveGoneAway}} [[DO-178C|airborne]] embedded systems PHY and MAC; [[CANbus|CAN]], [[AUTOSAR]], [[I²C]], [[Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter|UART]], [[Serial Peripheral Interface|SPI]], [[Modbus]], [[Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments|SCPI]]

*{{User|Tara Zieminek}}

*{{User|ImperfectlyInformed}} 23:29, 3 July 2016 (UTC) - web application developer interested in lower level details.

*{{User|tommiie}}

*{{User|ExoticViolet}} [[User:ExoticViolet|ExoticViolet]] ([[User talk:ExoticViolet|talk]]) 14:42, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

*{{User|Infograbber19}} Network Engineer - [[User:Infograbber19|Infograbber19]] ([[User talk:Infograbber19|talk]]) 09:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

*{{User|Justanotherintrovert}}

*{{User|Somers-all-the-time}}

*{{User|applsdev}}

==Article guidelines==

==Parentage==

The general style guide for computing articles, [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing]], should be followed.

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

===Content===

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===Organization===

==Descendant WikiProjects==

Here are a few ideas for how to organize articles. These do not necessarily have to correspond to the actual section headers and divisions, and they are no more than suggestions. Conform to them to help improve the article in question.

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject X|WikiProject X]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Y|WikiProject Y]]

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Z|WikiProject Z]]

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A protocol-specific article:

==Similar WikiProjects==

* History of the protocol

No similar WikiProjects have been named.

** Who started it

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** When was it started

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** What revisions were there

*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Q|WikiProject Q]]

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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject R|WikiProject R]]

* What other protocols were kept in mind when designing this protocol? (e.g., [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] to [[Stream Control Transmission Protocol|SCTP]])

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* Packet structure

* Any related technical discussions (e.g., fragmentation and reassembly for [[IPv4]])

A hardware-specific article:

==Related WikiProjects==

* What is it used for (what protocols, versions, etc.)

No related WikiProjects have been named.

* Hardware features

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* List of manufacturers & models

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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject R|WikiProject R]]

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== Templates ==

==Related [[Wikipedia:Portal|Wikiportals]]==

=== Talk page project template ===

{{tlx|WikiProject Computing|2=class=|3=importance=|4=network=yes|5=network-importance=}}

{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|network=yes|network-importance=|category=no}}

No related Wikiportals have been named.

===Stubs===

==Related [[:Category:Wikipedia collaborations|Collaborations]]==

{{tlx|Compu-network-stub}}

===Infoboxes===

No related Collaborations have been named.

''This task force has not yet created any infoboxes. Consult the [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}#Infoboxes|talk page]] for more information''.

===Userboxes===

==Related [[Wikipedia:Regional notice boards|Regional notice boards]]==

{{tlx|User WikiProject computer networking}}

{{User WikiProject computer networking}}

No related Regional notice boards have been named.

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==Related groups of [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]]==

==WP 1.0 Assessed Articles==

No related Wikipedians have been named.

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Computer networking articles by quality statistics}}

==Related pages in [[Wikipedia:Sister projects|Sister projects]]==

*[[Commons:Computer networking]]

*[[Wikibooks:Computer networking]]

*[[Wikinews:Computer networking]]

*[[Wikiquote:Computer networking]]

*[[Wikisource:Computer networking]]

*[[Wikispecies:Computer networking]]

*[[Wiktionary:Computer networking]]

*[[meta:Computer networking]]

===Sister Project Searches===

*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Computer networkingia&go=Go WikiBooks search]

*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikibooks.org+Computer networking Google WikiBooks search]

*[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Computer networking&go=Go WikiQuote search]

*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikiquote.org+Computer networking} Google WikiQuote search]

*[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Computer networking&go=Go WikiSource search]

*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:wikisource.org+Computer networking Google WikiSource search]

==Participants==

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==Structure==

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==Hierarchy definition==

No classification of this project has been defined.

==Goals==

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==Projects==

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==Tasks==

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|Computer networking}}

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*{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Computer networking articles needing expert attention}} articles in [[:Category:Computer networking articles needing expert attention]].

<!--For anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on. Usually this is a list of individual articles. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Open tasks]] for one example of how this section can be used.-->

*[[Access network]]: This article might be of interest to the networking task force. Please consider triage. [[User:Hvaara|<span style="color:white;"><span style="background-color: cornflowerblue">Hvaara</span></span>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Hvaara|<span style="color:cornflowerblue;">T</span>]]∞[[Special:Contributions/Hvaara|<span style="color:cornflowerblue;">C</span>]]} 11:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

::This is probably best left to [[WP:TELECOM]]. ~[[User:Kvng|Kvng]] ([[User talk:Kvng|talk]]) 14:10, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

==Adopt an article==

*Improve [[Ethernet]] toward [[WP:GA|good article]] by addressing {{citation needed}} requests. ~[[User:Kvng|Kvng]] ([[User talk:Kvng|talk]]) 19:53, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Similar to the [[Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week|Collaboration of the week]], but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

*[[Network scheduler]] improvements as discussed on [[Talk:Network_scheduler#Re-organisation_of_the_set_of_pages_describing_network_scheduling_algorithms|talk page]] ~[[User:Kvng|Kvng]] ([[User talk:Kvng|talk]]) 14:37, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

* Example article: [[User:Example]]

* Tagging articles for the project in relevant categories.

*

* WP 1.0 Assessment of both quality and importance.

<!--Check [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article]] to see how this section is used.-->

* Improving quality and getting a few articles to FA and GA articles.

* Outreach : Attract new members who might be interested and possibly start a bi-monthly newsletter.

==General strategy and discussion forums==

*[[/General]]

*[[/Strategy]]

==Other subpages==

==Templates==

===Infoboxes===

* {{substemplate|template}}

* e.g.<nowiki>{{</nowiki>Infobox Computer networking<nowiki>}}</nowiki>

{{tl|Infobox Computer networking }}

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===Stub templates===

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===Other templates===

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{{templateComputer networking }}

==Categories==

*[[:Category:Computer networking]]

==Lists==

==Articles==

===Wikipedia articles on Computer networking===

*[[Computer networking]]

===Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Computer networking===

*[[Wikipedia:Computer networking]]

*[[meta:Computer networking]]

===New Wikipedia articles related to Computer networking===

Please feel free to list your new Computer networking-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 [[Template talk:Did you know|Did you know?]] box on the [[Main]] Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

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===[[Template talk:Did you know|Did you know?]]===

===[[WP:AID|Article improvement drive]]===

===[[WP:COTW|Collaboration of the week]]===

===[[WP:PR|Peer review]]===

===[[WP:FA|Featured articles]]===

====[[WP:FAC|Featured article candidates]]====

===[[WP:FP|Featured pictures]]===

====[[WP:FPC|Featured picture candidates]]====

===[[Wikipedia:Featured lists|Featured lists]]===

====[[WP:FLC|Featured list candidates]]====

==Wikipedia surveys==

===Ad hoc surveys===

===Ongoing Wikipedia surveys===

*'''[[WP:RM|Requested moves]]''':

*'''[[WP:RFC|Requests for Comments]]''':

====Votes for deletion====

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*'''[[WP:VFD|Votes for deletion]]''' (Article deletion):

*'''[[WP:VFU|Votes for undelete]]''' (Article undeletion}:

*'''[[WP:TFD|Templates for deletion]]''':

*'''[[WP:CFD|Categories for deletion]]''':

*'''[[WP:IFD|Images for deletion]]''':

*'''[[WP:RFD|Redirects for deletion]]''':

=====WikiProject Deletion sorting=====

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting]] is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Computer networking-related articles at VFD are listed at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computer networking]].

==Requests==

==Resources==

==Computer networking [[Wikipedia:Meetups|Meetups]]==

==Archives==

*[[/Archive1|#1]]

==Sister Project links==

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