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.WikiProject Computer security
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
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) [reply ]
- DPdH (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
- Deadrat 2 October 2012
- The Grumpy Hacker (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2012 (UTC) [reply ]
- Kvng 15:52, 28 November 2012 (UTC) [reply ]
- WikiGopi (talk) August 25, 2014
- Falcon Darkstar Momot (talk) 06:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC) [reply ]
- Maxim Stoyalov
- zazpot (talk) 21:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
- Aragorn (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC) [reply ]
- Littlecat456 (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC) [reply ]
- Vicente Aceituno Canal - 3 February 2020
- WallabyWombat Let's Talk! 07:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC) [reply ]
- BoldLuis (talk) - 17 May 2020.
- Tom (talk) 18:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC) [reply ]
- Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC) [reply ]
- W1tchkr4ft 00 (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC) [reply ]
- DecorumForum125 (talk) 24 September 2021
- AlchemistsFire (talk) 21:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
- Somers-all-the-time (talk) 01:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
- Yaakovaryeh (talk) 19:44, 2 May 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
- Autarch Autarch (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
- Nemoveritas (talk) 17:17, 13 December 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
- Bibamad (talk) - 17 July 2023
- Lilliraune (talk) 15:48, 7 December 2023 (UTC) [reply ]
- CybersecChloe (talk) - 21:59, 30 December 2023 (UCT)
- MrLavoie (talk) - 20:03, 15 January 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- User:NoneTheFewer (talk) - 13:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- EnEsBee talk to me please im lonely :( 00:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Brandon (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- mcgyver5 (talk) 16:46, 28 August 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Tule-hog (talk) 20:31, 5 September 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 09:27, 12 September 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- ShreyasMinocha (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- D1551D3N7 (talk) 13:54, 18 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- HerBauhaus (talk) 14:32, 18 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- guninvalid (talk) 17:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Userbox
Userbox template
Participants of this WikiProject can add this userbox template {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Userbox}} to their User page:
To add the Userbox insert the following to the your user page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Userbox}}
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 banner at {{WikiProject Computer security}}
:
WikiProject icon | 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
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 | 33 | 49 | 52 | 5 | 144 | |
C | 28 | 192 | 242 | 383 | 45 | 890 | |
Start | 10 | 133 | 293 | 833 | 249 | 1,518 | |
Stub | 17 | 74 | 427 | 194 | 712 | ||
List | 8 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 42 | ||
Category | 236 | 236 | |||||
Disambig | 7 | 7 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 15 | 15 | |||||
Redirect | 13 | 16 | 50 | 182 | 261 | ||
Template | 32 | 32 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | 39 | 41 | |||
Other | 46 | 46 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 401 | 693 | 1,780 | 565 | 497 | 3,979 |
Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Total | 43 | 401 | 694 | 1,780 | 565 | 500 | 3,983 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 15,913 | Ω = 4.83 |
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
- 23 Mar 2025 – SwiftOnSecurity (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Avxktty (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 19 Mar 2025 – Strong authentication (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PhotographyEdits (t · c) was closed as delete by OwenX (t · c) on 26 Mar 2025; see discussion (6 participants)
Good article nominees
- 13 Mar 2025 – Gameover ZeuS (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Eithersummer (t · c) was promoted by GregariousMadness (t · c), see discussion
Requested moves
- 16 Mar 2025 – Cyberwarfare by China (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Cyberwarfare and China by JArthur1984 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 17 Mar 2025 – Data at rest (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Computer data storage by Fgnievinski (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
- 17 Sep 2024 – Privacy-invasive software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Spyware by Jdcooper (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
- 23 Feb 2025 – Draft:CVE-2025-1094 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Guninvalid (t · c)
- 16 Feb 2025 – Draft:Move (language) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Praxidicae (t · c)
- 07 Jan 2025 – Draft:Albert Antwi-Boasiako (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by लॉस एंजिल्स लेखक (t · c)
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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
27 March 2025
- diff hist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:06 +295 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: -1 AfD; -1 GAN) (HB/204/AR)
25 March 2025
- diff hist m Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:06 0 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/204/AR)
24 March 2025
- diff hist m Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:06 −702 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes; 1 entries archived) (HB/204/AR)
23 March 2025
- diff hist Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:09 −735 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: +1 AfD (SwiftOnSecurity); 2 entries archived) (HB/204/AR)
22 March 2025
- diff hist Computer crime countermeasures 14:56 −22 Kvng talk contribs (rm bad link)
- diff hist m Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:07 0 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/204/AR)
21 March 2025
- diff hist m Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer security/Article alerts 07:06 −12 AAlertBot talk contribs (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/204/AR)
High-quality content
The featured articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are the best articles in Wikipedia, and the status which all articles should eventually achieve. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria. Bold article names have been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article".
The following computer security related articles have been deemed Good Articles, which places them two tiers below Featured Articles.
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