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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
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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)
- D1551D3N7 (talk) 13:54, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
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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: 99.9% 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 | 8 | 14 | 26 | |||
B | 5 | 32 | 48 | 52 | 5 | 142 | |
C | 28 | 191 | 242 | 380 | 44 | 885 | |
Start | 10 | 133 | 296 | 827 | 248 | 1,514 | |
Stub | 17 | 73 | 429 | 197 | 716 | ||
List | 8 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 42 | ||
Category | 233 | 233 | |||||
Disambig | 8 | 8 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 22 | 22 | |||||
Redirect | 14 | 17 | 47 | 208 | 286 | ||
Template | 34 | 34 | |||||
Other | 11 | 11 | |||||
Draft | 38 | 38 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 399 | 693 | 1,770 | 562 | 498 | 3,965 |
Unassessed | 2 | 2 | |||||
Total | 43 | 399 | 693 | 1,770 | 562 | 500 | 3,967 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 15,889 | Ω = 4.84 |
Quality 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.
- List of all subpages of this page
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 24 Jan 2025 – OnlyKey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Loewstisch (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 24 Jan 2025 – Panorays (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Linkusyr (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 15 Jan 2025 – TRENDnet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Villkomoses (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 24 Jan 2025 – Co-managed Security (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Here2rewrite (t · c): Appears to be an industry buzzword not used outside of advertising. Everything I found on Google Books/Scholar is self-published/promotional. The main source cited that actually uses this term is a whitepaper published by "ReliaQuest" which ...
Redirects for discussion
- 20 Jan 2025 – BTCUSD=X (talk · edit · hist) →Bitcoin was RfDed by 173.206.40.108 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jan 2025 – TorSearch (talk · edit · hist) →Tor (network) was RfDed by Greatder (t · c); see 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
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
- 07 Jan 2025 – Draft:Albert Antwi-Boasiako (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by लॉस एंजिल्स लेखक (t · c)
- 11 Dec 2024 – Draft:Piratas Unidos Argentinos (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ing.Parolari (t · c)
- 17 Jan 2025 – Draft:Rapid Unscheduled Disablement (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 74.96.227.93 (t · c) was deleted
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Recent changes
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29 January 2025
- diffhist Module:Message box 21:53 +60 Pppery talk contribs (Copy from sandbox per request)
- Page curation log 15:08 Bunnypranav talk contribs marked the article Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist m Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 08:07 −96 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/204/AR)
- diffhist m John McAfee 07:11 −5 Notseeshower talk contribs (Changed instances of "MacAfee" to "McAfee")
28 January 2025
- diffhist Talk:Shadow profile 19:42 +91 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computer security, +Internet (Rater))
- diffhist Shadow profile 19:41 −33 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (Removing from Category:Information privacy removed redundant parent category using Cat-a-lot)
- diffhist Talk:Shadow profile 19:40 +8 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Computer crime countermeasures 17:04 −2 Kvng talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Internet, Crime and Criminal Biography (Rater))
- diffhist Template:WikiProject Computer security 12:05 −42 MSGJ talk contribs (update after move)
- Move log 11:36 Robertsky talk contribs moved page Template:WikiProject Computer Security to Template:WikiProject Computer security (Requested by Tom.Reding at WP:RM/TR: Per WP:WikiProject Computer security)
- Protection log 11:36 Robertsky talk contribs moved protection settings from Template:WikiProject Computer Security to Template:WikiProject Computer security (Template:WikiProject Computer Security moved to Template:WikiProject Computer security: Requested by Tom.Reding at WP:RM/TR: Per WP:WikiProject Computer security)
- Deletion log 11:36 Robertsky talk contribs deleted page Template:WikiProject Computer security (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Template:WikiProject Computer Security)
- diffhist John McAfee 08:40 +195 BoythisisworsethanthetimeIwassus talk contribs (→In the media)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 08:07 −4,298 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: +3 AfD; +1 PROD; +3 RfD; +3 MRG; +3 SPL; +2/-1 AFC; 6 entries archived) (HB/204/AR)
- diffhist John McAfee 05:53 +2,233 67.249.178.182 talk (→Death) Tag: Visual edit
27 January 2025
- diffhist N Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 19:56 +64 Funandtrvl talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WikiProject banner shell| {{WikiProject Computer Security}} }}')
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Good articles 19:54 +2 Funandtrvl talk contribs (added category)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Featured articles 19:54 −2 Funandtrvl talk contribs (added category)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article Watch/Article alerts 19:53 +39 Funandtrvl talk contribs (added category)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article requests 19:52 +121 Funandtrvl talk contribs (added category)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article Watch 19:49 +38 Funandtrvl talk contribs (updated info)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 19:47 +83 Funandtrvl talk contribs (added category)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/to do 19:45 +16 Funandtrvl talk contribs (updated info)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security 19:43 −8 Funandtrvl talk contribs (updated info)
- diffhist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article Watch 19:41 +106 Funandtrvl talk contribs (updated info)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 09:36 +2 Guy Harris talk contribs (→CHERI implementations: Link Codasip, as it's the first place it's mentioned in the article. Copyedit a sentence.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 08:44 +567 2a01:e0a:5a7:5010:f9d5:d0f4:7b8:8248 talk (Added a few links and another implementation of CHERI) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 01:09 −29 Guy Harris talk contribs (Get rid of unnecessary piping.)
26 January 2025
- diffhist m Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:16 −2 Gameboo talk contribs (Minor rephrase / english fix)
- diffhist m Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:12 −5 Gameboo talk contribs (fix spurious space)
- diffhist Draft:Mike Steep 15:38 +1 DoubleGrazing talk contribs (Dummy edit to reset G13 clock after undeletion (rfud-helper))
- Deletion log 15:38 DoubleGrazing talk contribs undeleted page Draft talk:Mike Steep (4 revisions) (Undeleting talk page of "Draft:Mike Steep" (rfud-helper))
- Deletion log 15:38 DoubleGrazing talk contribs undeleted page Draft:Mike Steep (16 revisions) (Undelete per request at WP:RFUD (rfud-helper))
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 09:25 +42 2a00:23c8:f504:1201:13e:9aea:226e:5738 talk (The neutral-wording change introduced ambiguity that was factually incorrect (you can sandbox libraries without recompiling with CHERI). Attempt to clarify without introducing value judgements.)
- diffhist m Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:13 +13 Guy Harris talk contribs (script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:12 0 Guy Harris talk contribs (Fix {{use dmy dates}} template call.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:11 −1 Guy Harris talk contribs (Remve extra space.)
- diffhist m Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 03:09 −28 Anomalocaris talk contribs (dash; straight apostrophes; improve <ref>s; standardize {{cite}} whitespace: unspaced equals, space before not after pipe)
- diffhist m John McAfee 02:51 −39 Squeakachu talk contribs (Reverted edit by 173.172.29.19 (talk) to last version by Jet Pilot) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist John McAfee 02:50 +39 173.172.29.19 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Xcitium 00:25 +6 Tinton5 talk contribs (→top)
25 January 2025
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:50 −122 Guy Harris talk contribs (Combine duplicate references. Use {{cite magazine}} for a magazine article. Add author.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:46 +11 Guy Harris talk contribs (→History: Fix citation - that's the conference name, not part of the title.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:43 +20 Guy Harris talk contribs (Fix citation - those are authors, not part of the title.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:38 −2 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Mechanism: Free-access link, rather than paywalled link that the DOI will take you to.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:31 +69 Guy Harris talk contribs (→History: Add a link.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:28 +274 Guy Harris talk contribs (Use a citation template.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:18 +119 Guy Harris talk contribs (→History: Add URL and DOI.)
- diffhist Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions 22:08 +1 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Mechanism: Use {{cite conference}} for a conference paper.)
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