Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/RISC OS

Improving Wikipedia's coverage of the RISC OS computer operating system, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This is a retrospective request to determine the status of the Project, which was created more than one year ago. Previous relevant discussions are at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject RISC OS#Project scope and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 11#RISC OS coordination. Apologies again for not coming here at the time - it was all rather daunting back then. Thanks for reading. -- Trevj (talk) 11:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most articles already identified, at WP:RISCOS#Article list
Category:RISC OS articles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of pages in the category: )
Category:Acorn Computers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (number of pages in the category: 63 + subcategories)
Category:Acorn Archimedes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (redirect - delete?)

List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles: Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.

Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?: This is a specialized topic area, per similar daughter projects/task forces existing in other areas of interest. Related to WikiProject Computing.

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Note: There are currently 9 participants (including me) listed in the participant list.

There's no requirement that new WikiProjects go through a formal proposal process; the mechanism is in place to assist editors uncertain of whether a WikiProject should be created, not to prevent them from doing so. So, from a procedural standpoint, a "retrospective" request isn't really necessary; if the project has been created and is active, then there's no real reason why it would need any sort of "approval".
More generally, though, I wonder if perhaps the number of articles specific to the OS itself might be too small to sustain a full WikiProject? Perhaps it would be better to combine all the individual OS-level projects as task forces of either WikiProject Computing or a new WikiProject Operating systems? Kirill ^[talk] 11:54, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Very useful comments. Thanks for clarifying. The task force scenario is exactly the sort of thing which could do with tidying up. -- Trevj (talk) 11:59, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I've had a look at your project and am impressed with the initiative you've taken. I am concerned that the topic is too narrow to sustain the project in the long term. Making it a task force under WP:COMP would keep the project from every becoming an orphan. --Kvng (talk) 13:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]