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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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
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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: 99.6% 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 | 51 | 5 | 139 | |
C | 27 | 191 | 238 | 369 | 43 | 868 | |
Start | 11 | 134 | 296 | 820 | 245 | 1,506 | |
Stub | 17 | 74 | 427 | 200 | 718 | ||
List | 8 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 42 | ||
Category | 231 | 231 | |||||
Disambig | 8 | 8 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 21 | 21 | |||||
Redirect | 14 | 16 | 44 | 208 | 282 | ||
Template | 34 | 34 | |||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Draft | 1 | 50 | 51 | ||||
Assessed | 43 | 399 | 690 | 1,746 | 562 | 497 | 3,937 |
Unassessed | 1 | 15 | 16 | ||||
Total | 43 | 399 | 690 | 1,747 | 562 | 512 | 3,953 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 15,791 | 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
Did you know
- 19 Nov 2024 – .zip (top-level domain) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Bobby Cohn (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 08 Nov 2024 – Panorays (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Brandon (t · c) was closed as no consensus by OwenX (t · c) on 29 Nov 2024; see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 22 Nov 2024 – EFF-Austin (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) was deleted
- 22 Nov 2024 – .XIP (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) was redirected to Xar (archiver) (talk · edit · hist)
Redirects for discussion
- 30 Nov 2024 – Positive and negative test cases (talk · edit · hist) →Software testing was RfDed by Mdewman6 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 17 Aug 2024 – Infostealer (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sohom Datta (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 21 Nov 2024 – Transient execution CPU vulnerability (talk · edit · hist) move request to Transient execution CPU vulnerabilities by SOP9X (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
- 19 Nov 2024 – .zip (top-level domain) (talk · edit · hist) move request to .zip by Bobby Cohn (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 12 Nov 2024 – Spy pixel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Web beacon by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Nov 2024 – Information assurance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Information security by Joereddington (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Oct 2024 – Farid Essebar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Zotob by HamburgerRadio (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
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
1 December 2024
- diffhist m Spybot – Search & Destroy 17:07 −4 Widefox talk contribs (→top: rm selflink)
- diffhist m Talk:SpySheriff 17:06 +9 Widefox talk contribs (→top: fix / refactor talk)
- diffhist Talk:SpySheriff 17:05 −2 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Spybot – Search & Destroy 17:05 +32 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Computing, −Software, −Computer Security (Rater))
29 November 2024
- Deletion log 21:43 Liz talk contribs deleted page Talk:EFF-Austin (G8: Talk page of deleted page "EFF-Austin") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 21:43 Liz talk contribs deleted page EFF-Austin (Expired PROD, concern was: Fails WP: GNG. The external links on the article appear to be primary. I found a couple mentions in some news articles, but nothing more.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist .XIP 15:44 −2,028 Bobby Cohn talk contribs (BLAR instead of PROD, almost 7 days old) Tag: New redirect
- diffhist Session hijacking 04:13 −1 Quarl talk contribs (fix another ref) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m Session hijacking 04:12 +59 Quarl talk contribs (Fixing reference error raised by Qwerfjkl (bot))
- diffhist m Session hijacking 02:51 −148 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (Merge done)
28 November 2024
- diffhist Session hijacking 20:28 −17 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: fmt) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Session hijacking 20:27 +110 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: affected sites) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Session hijacking 20:24 −1,181 Quarl talk contribs (→Cookiemonster: merge/ed/remove obsolete) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Session hijacking 20:21 +4,032 Quarl talk contribs (merge Cookiemonster attack into Session hijacking) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Cookiemonster attack 20:21 −4,376 Quarl talk contribs (merge Cookiemonster attack into Session hijacking) Tags: New redirect 2017 wikitext editor
27 November 2024
- Deletion log 23:44 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Draft talk:William C Tulaba (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Draft:William C Tulaba") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 23:44 Explicit talk contribs deleted page Draft:William C Tulaba (G13: Abandoned draft or AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 16:15 Hey man im josh talk contribs deleted page Draft talk:PHP Security Guide (G8: Talk page of deleted page "Draft:PHP Security Guide") Tag: Twinkle
- Deletion log 16:15 Hey man im josh talk contribs deleted page Draft:PHP Security Guide (G13: Abandoned draft or AfC submission – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND/G13) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist m Zoom Communications 01:37 +146 DigitalIceAge talk contribs (former_name)
26 November 2024
- diffhist Talk:Electronic health record confidentiality 19:28 +149 Sink Cat talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Health and fitness, +Software, +Computer Security (Rater))
- diffhist m Talk:Hector Monsegur 12:37 −13 Tom.Reding talk contribs (→top: Category:Articles with conflicting quality ratings: -Stub, keep Start; cleanup) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Incident management (ITSM) 12:35 −2,681 Klbrain talk contribs (Merged content to Incident management#IT service management, redirecting; AfD-merge; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Incident management (ITSM) (easy-merge)) Tag: New redirect
- Move log 07:51 Robertsky talk contribs moved page Talk:Zoom Video Communications to Talk:Zoom Communications (Requested by Station1 at WP:RM/TR: the talk page was left behind when the article was moved earlier today.)
- Deletion log 07:51 Robertsky talk contribs deleted page Talk:Zoom Communications (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Talk:Zoom Video Communications)
- Page curation log 00:34 Hey man im josh talk contribs marked the redirect Zoom Video Communications as reviewed Tag: PageTriage
- diffhist m Zoom Communications 00:14 −5 Mistletoe-alert talk contribs (missing website. zoom.com also works, but when navigating to investors.zoom.com it redirects to investors.zoom.us, so i chose zoom.us)
- Move log 00:12 Mistletoe-alert talk contribs moved page Zoom Video Communications to Zoom Communications over redirect ("On November 25, 2024, the company changed its corporate name from Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to Zoom Communications, Inc." https://investors.zoom.us/news-releases/news-release-details/zoom-communications-reports-financial-results-third-quarter)
- Deletion log 00:12 Mistletoe-alert talk contribs deleted redirect Zoom Communications by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move from Zoom Video Communications)
- diffhist m Zoom Video Communications 00:08 −96 Mistletoe-alert talk contribs ("On November 25, 2024, the company changed its corporate name from Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to Zoom Communications, Inc." https://investors.zoom.us/news-releases/news-release-details/zoom-communications-reports-financial-results-third-quarter)
25 November 2024
- diffhist Talk:Peter Biddle 20:19 +119 Widefox talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Biography, Computing, +Microsoft (Rater))
- diffhist Peter Biddle 20:17 0 Widefox talk contribs (fix sect WP:ORDER ,)
- diffhist Draft:Nathan Sportsman 20:07 +17 Jamiebuba talk contribs (Declining submission: bio - Submission is about a person not yet shown to meet notability guidelines and adv - Submission reads like an advertisement (AFCH))
- diffhist Draft:Nathan Sportsman 20:07 −263 Jamiebuba talk contribs (clean up (DraftCleaner))
- diffhist Draft:Nathan Sportsman 19:53 +216 Erikprince talk contribs (Submitting using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft talk:Nathan Sportsman 19:53 +66 Erikprince talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist N Draft:Nathan Sportsman 19:51 +10,517 Erikprince talk contribs (-- Draft creation using the WP:Article wizard --) Tags: use of deprecated (unreliable) source Possible self promotion in user or draftspace Visual edit
- diffhist Darcula 14:27 −22 Bearcat talk contribs (no redlinked categories; only categories that actually exist are permitted)
High-quality content
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The following computer security related articles have been deemed Good Articles, which places them two tiers below Featured Articles.
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