Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS
Welcome to WikiProject RISC OS. A number of Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of RISC OS and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, enquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
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| Shortcut | WP:RISCOS |
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| Category | Acorn Computers operating systems |
| Parent project(s) | Computing |
| Project banner template | {{WikiProject Computing | riscos=yes | riscos-importance=(Top | High | Mid | Low) }} |
| Userbox | {{User WP RISCOS}} |
| Has goals? | Yes |
Welcome to WikiProject RISC OS. A number of Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of RISC OS and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, enquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Goals
[edit]- Raise the quality and expand the range of the articles about RISC OS, its hardware and software.
- For articles of Top and High importance, the target is good article. It may be appropriate to have a target of featured article in some circumstances.
- Create new articles on notable RISC OS related topics.
- Spread awareness of RISC OS, in a respectful and realistic manner, to other Wikipedians.
Scope
[edit]- Within the English Wikipedia, all articles relating to RISC OS capable hardware, the OS itself, OS components, RISC OS software and games, companies and individuals that provided hardware/software for the platform. Note: Where appropriate, please follow the guidance for biographies of living persons.
- Through collaboration with speakers of other languages, include information sharing with other Wikipedias, perhaps by requesting translations of articles of an acceptable quality:
Guidelines
[edit]- Be neutral.
- Place your experience of RISC OS within the context of the wider world of Operating Systems and software.
- When dealing with software or companies that came to be larger or more well known for their non-RISC OS work, be careful not to place undue prominence on their RISC OS work.
- Stick to the facts, avoid hyperbole, reference everything with reliable sources. Have fun.
- Of course follow the standard Wikipedia guidelines for article editing. In particular the Five Pillars.
- Follow guidance for getting articles classified as good or featured.
- The creation of new articles should (for your first article) ideally be done using the Article wizard, which automatically includes a review process.
- Some comprehensive advice (containing useful links) is given at Your first article.
- You may also want to initially create such articles in your own userspace.
- When trying to make sense of an article's edit history, reference can be made to the glossary of commonly used abbreviations.
- Make technical articles understandable (and WP:LEADLINK)
Use of images
[edit]- Free content is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.
- This applies to all media, including images.
- Copyright holders may be requested to licence their work under free use. It is advised that this be done using a standard email template.
- Where a free equivalent is not available or could not be created (e.g. copyrighted works), non-free content may be permissible. In this case, you may wish to include File:Wikipedia non-free placeholder.png within userspace article drafts.
- To create a free screenshot
- Have to use a free operating system?
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Participants
[edit]Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Instructions
- Create an account (if you don't already have one)
- Edit this section by clicking on [edit] (sections of pages have their own edit links to the right)
- Add your name (and interest, if you choose) as follows
- New entries in alphabetical order, please.
- #{{User|Name}}{{mdash}}(areas of personal interest) ~~~~~
- Please note that it is "User|" not "User:" and five tildes at the end, not four.
- Check your entry by clicking 'Show preview' below the edit window
- When you're satisfied that it's correct, click 'Save page'
- If you wish, you can include the userbox {{User WP RISCOS}} on your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.
- Participant list
- Egel (talk · contribs)— (Acorn Hardware) 12:33, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- filecore (talk · contribs)—(On the off-chance that I have something to contribute. You never know.) 11:02, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
- Flibble (talk · contribs)— 16:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sedm0784 (talk · contribs)— 10:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- Trevj (talk · contribs)—(references, style, refs from The Micro User printed mag, current usage) 17:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- VinceHudd (talk · contribs)— 13:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- Zakkrr (talk · contribs)—(I am interested in working on ideas, talks, pictures. I collect Acorns. Running Acorn Archimedes Facebook page) 10:29, 15 March 2011
- Bernardboase (talk · contribs)—(I summarise online forum for Archive magazine; wide interests) 01:06, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- REH11 (talk · contribs)—(It's complicated) 15:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Articles
[edit]Articles are added into the project by the use of the {{WikiProject Computing}} banner on the Article's Talk page, adding in the riscos=yes and riscos-importance=Low/Mid/High/Top fields.
Note that the importance of an article within WikiProject RISC OS is not the same as its importance in WikiProject Computing. When assessing articles, take care not to inflate the computing importance. Most articles in this project have general computing importance=low. (RISC OS itself has general computing importance=mid.) If you're uncomfortable assessing the general computing importance, you can leave it blank.
The following is a suggestion as to how to internally grade using the riscos-importance parameter.
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| Top | RISC OS |
| High | Hardware platforms, Key Companies, Key OS Components |
| Mid | Key Software and Games, People, Publications, Other Companies, Other OS Components |
| Low | Other Software, Games, People and Publications |
The bot runs daily or so (click here for manual update) to update this table of items in the RISC OS project.
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You have no idea how difficult this sodding table was to setup :D--Flibble (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Article list
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[edit]Featured content
[edit]- There are currently no featured articles.
Candidates
[edit]- There are currently no featured article candidates, as there are no articles currently satisfying the criteria.
Former featured articles
[edit]New articles
[edit]Please feel free to list your new RISC OS-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
Suggested articles
[edit]Articles that you think should be written, please remove from the list once the article is started.
| Article (+ links) | riscos-importance | Reason(s) for notability | Ref links | |
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| MicroDigital Mico (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Defunct hardware | [1] | |
| MicroDigital Medi (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Defunct hardware, A7000+ mobo in diff case, possibly add to A7000 page | ||
| RiscStation R7500 (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Defunct hardware | [2] AU Christmas 1999, pgs.18-22 | |
| Acorn PC card (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Currently redirects to RiscPC. Notable hardware | ||
| Advantage Six A75 (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | 'embedded' ARM7500 based system | ||
| TBA Software (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Company of historic (and renewed) interest | [3] | |
| Ovation (RISC OS software) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Key Software | ||
| Simtec Electronics (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Other Company (actual designer of A9home) | ||
| 3QD Developments (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Key company (range of emulator products, large amount of current RO userbase) | ||
| Advantage Six (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Other Company, Stuart Tyrrell Developments, developer/retailer(?) of A9home | ||
| NetChannel (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | (Defunct) branded Acorn Network Computer | ||
| ANT (company) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Internet suite and important help in fulfilling NC contract with Oracle | [4][5] | |
| Icon Technology (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | (Defunct) Notable software | [6] | |
| Acorn Replay (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Notable software, cf. Sophie Wilson's paper "Acorn Replay - Software only Full Motion Video from CD-ROM" in "Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium, Southampton, 21-23 April 1993" | [7] | |
| Fednet (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Company of historic interest | ||
| RiscStation (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Company of historic interest, developer of RiscStation R7500 | AU Christmas 1999, pgs.18-22 | |
| Millipede (company) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | (Defunct) developer of Millipede Imago | ||
| Neil Raine (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Author of Acornsoft Planetoid and Magic Mushrooms, co-author of the Font Manager, Window Manager, Iota's DataPower, tragically killed in a hang-gliding accident in Spain in 2006 | [8], [9], [10] | |
| Archive (magazine) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Non-defunct magazine | ||
| Eureka (computer magazine) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct magazine, magazine of The ARM Club | [11] | |
| RISC User (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct magazine | ||
| Foundation RISC User (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct magazine, successor to RISC User? Merged with RISCWorld in June 2008. | [12] | |
| Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Prominent user group, organiser of the Wakefield Acorn Computer Show | ||
| Wakefield Acorn Computer Show (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Longstanding annual trade show, previously received sponsorship from Acorn Computers and Acorn User | [13] | |
| Iota Software (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct software company | [14] | |
| Eesox (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct software company | [15] | |
| Logotron (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Defunct software company | [16] | |
| APDL (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Apparently "first independent Public Domain and Shareware library for the Acorn Archimedes computer" | [17] | |
| Virtualise (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Commercial virtual memory manager for RiscPC generation hardware | [18] | |
| RPCEmu (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Freeware emulator of RiscPC, included on ROOL USB stick | [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] | |
| Orpheus Internet Services (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | ISP, owner of ArgoNet | ||
| Joe Dunn (computing industry) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Mid | Wrote BBC Micro file server (Econet?), worked on Arthur, since notable for positions at Macromedia, Adobe Systems, recently e23 Games | [53][54] | |
| Hugo Fiennes (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Own Acorn stuff before studying and then being headhunted by Apple, also Empeg Car | [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64] | |
| Impression (software) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | [65][66] | |
| ArcFS (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | [67] | |
| Zap (software) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | [68] | |
| StrongHelp (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | [69] | |
| Uniqueway (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Company of historic note, involvement with ARPlayer codec, RISC DISCs, connection to RISCOS Ltd | ||
| Voyager (software) (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | [70] | |
| R-Comp (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Key publisher/dealer, selling VirtualAcorn products and publisher of RISC OS software | ||
| CJE micro's (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Key publisher/dealer | ||
| The Serial Port (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Low | Key publisher (historical) | ||
| EasiWriter (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key software | AU Jul 1991, pgs. 104-105 | |
| Norwich Computer Services (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Key publisher/dealer (defunct), founder of Archive | ||
| i-cubed (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | Med | Designer of ethernet products (defunct) | [71] | |
| ARMini (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | Most recent commercially available 'out of the box' hardware, based on the
BeagleBoard-xM. See talk. |
[72] | |
| BiK (e|t|h|li|w|lo) | High | A4com, Beagleboard in a box, near identical to ARMini. See talk. | ||
| Article (+ links) | riscos-importance | Reason(s) for notability | Ref links |
Suggested additions to existing articles
[edit]Note: All such additions should be included in a respectful and realistic manner, i.e. this is not comp.sys.acorn.advocacy!
- Configuration file#RISC OS (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Low --Trevj (talk) 08:54, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- Power-on self-test#RISC OS POST (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Low --Trevj (talk) 11:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Shutdown (computing)#RISC OS (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Low --Trevj (talk) 08:20, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Suggested templates
[edit]- Template:Acorn Computers operating systems (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) - Low --Trevj (talk) 12:59, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Review and assessment
[edit]Cleanup
[edit]Assessment
[edit]RISC OS articles by quality log
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[edit]Renamed
[edit]- ARM7500 renamed to ARM7.
- Acorn PC card renamed to Risc PC.
- Drawfile renamed to List of RISC OS filetypes.
- Pling renamed to Exclamation mark.
- Qercus renamed to Acorn User.
- ROOL renamed to RISC OS Open.
- Template:User WP RISCOS renamed to WP:WikiProject Computing/RISCOS/Userbox.
- WP:WikiProject RISC OS/Archive 1 renamed to WP:WikiProject RISC OS.
Removed
[edit]- A9home (talk) removed.
- ARM System-on-Chip Architecture (talk) removed.
- File:ARM system-on-chip architecture 2nd ed cover.jpg (talk) removed.
- ARX (operating system) (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn-Netstation.jpg (talk) removed.
- Acorn A7000 (talk) removed.
- Acorn Arcade (talk) removed.
- Acorn Archimedes (talk) removed.
- Category:Acorn Archimedes game covers (talk) removed.
- Category:Acorn Archimedes games (talk) removed.
- Acorn C/C++ (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn CC++ cover.jpg (talk) removed.
- Acorn Computers (talk) removed.
- Acorn Network Computer (talk) removed.
- Acorn Online Media Set Top Box (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn Risc PC 600.jpg (talk) removed.
- Acorn User (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn User mag cover vol 1 iss 1.jpg (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn arcade fireworks logo.png (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn archimedes advert new scientist 1989-09-09.jpg (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn computers logo rendered with text.svg (talk) removed.
- File:Acorn risc pc logo.svg (talk) removed.
- Advanced Disc Filing System (talk) removed.
- Aemulor (talk) removed.
- File:Aemulor logo.png (talk) removed.
- Apocalypse (1990 video game) (talk) removed.
- Application directory (talk) removed.
- File:Arcelite through vipers.jpg (talk) removed.
- File:Arch-computer.jpg (talk) removed.
- Archive (magazine) (talk) removed.
- Arm Image Format (talk) removed.
- ArtWorks (talk) removed.
- File:Arthur Icon Bar 1987.PNG (talk) removed.
- BBC BASIC (talk) removed.
- File:BBC owl.svg (talk) removed.
- BEEBUG (talk) removed.
- Castle Technology (talk) removed.
- File:Castle Technology logo.png (talk) removed.
- Comparison of operating systems (talk) removed.
- Cyber Chess (talk) removed.
- File:Cyber Chess box front.jpg (talk) removed.
- Demoscene (talk) removed.
- Designer Castles (talk) removed.
- DeskLite (talk) removed.
- Dorico (talk) removed.
- Drobe (talk) removed.
- E-Type (video game) (talk) removed.
- Econet (talk) removed.
- Element 14 (company) (talk) removed.
- Galileo (operating system) (talk) removed.
- Gordon J. Key (talk) removed.
- Gutenprint (talk) removed.
- History of RISC OS (talk) removed.
- HyperStudio (talk) removed.
- Icon bar (talk) removed.
- File:Iconbar ro5 256col 640w apps.png (talk) removed.
- File:Iconbar ro5 256col 640w base.png (talk) removed.
- Impression (software) (talk) removed.
- Iyonix PC (talk) removed.
- File:Landerscreenshot.gif (talk) removed.
- List of ARM microarchitectures (talk) removed.
- List of RISC OS bundled applications (talk) removed.
- List of RISC OS filetypes (talk) removed.
- MakeModes (talk) removed.
- MicroDigital Omega (talk) removed.
- Music Box (software) (talk) removed.
- NCOS (talk) removed.
- NetSurf (talk) removed.
- File:NetSurf.png (talk) removed.
- Oregano (web browser) (talk) removed.
- Philip's Music Writer (talk) removed.
- Phoebe (computer) (talk) removed.
- Provocator (talk) removed.
- Quentin Pain (talk) removed.
- File:RISCOS 4 scr.png (talk) removed.
- RISCOS Ltd (talk) removed.
- RISC OS (talk) removed.
- File:RISC OS 4 logo.png (talk) removed.
- File:RISC OS Icon Bar 1988.PNG (talk) removed.
- File:RISC OS Icon Bar 1991.PNG (talk) removed.
- File:RISC OS Icon Bar 1999.PNG (talk) removed.
- RISC OS Open (talk) removed.
- Template:RISC OS development graphical timeline (talk) removed.
- Category:RISC OS emulation software (talk) removed.
- Category:RISC OS emulators (talk) removed.
- Category:RISC OS software (talk) removed.
- RISC iX (talk) removed.
- ROX Desktop (talk) removed.
- Ravenskull (video game) (talk) removed.
- Repton (video game) (talk) removed.
- File:RiscOS 16colors palette.png (talk) removed.
- File:RiscOS 16colors palette color test chart.png (talk) removed.
- Risc PC (talk) removed.
- Riscos.info (talk) removed.
- File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel richard hallas lg cogwheel x1.svg (talk) removed.
- File:Riscos rool logo cog svgedit fitcanvastocontent.svg (talk) removed.
- File:Riscpc internal.jpg (talk) removed.
- Category:Screenshots of Acorn Archimedes games (talk) removed.
- Sherston Software (talk) removed.
- Sibelius (scorewriter) (talk) removed.
- File:Sibelius on Iyonix under Aemulor.png (talk) removed.
- Spheres of Chaos (talk) removed.
- File:Spheres of Chaos cover (Acorn Archimedes).jpg (talk) removed.
- Stan Boland (talk) removed.
- Star Fighter (video game) (talk) removed.
- StrongARM (talk) removed.
- Superior Software (talk) removed.
- The Centre for Computing History (talk) removed.
- The Electronic Font Foundry (talk) removed.
- The Fourth Dimension (company) (talk) removed.
- The Icon Bar (talk) removed.
- The Micro User (talk) removed.
- File:The Micro User issue 1.jpg (talk) removed.
- The World of Robert Burns (talk) removed.
- Top Banana (video game) (talk) removed.
- VirtualAcorn (talk) removed.
- File:VirtualAcorn logo.png (talk) removed.
- Template:WPRISCOSinvite (talk) removed.
- Template:WPRISCOSwelcome (talk) removed.
- WP:WikiProject Computing/RISCOS/Userbox (talk) removed.
- WP:WikiProject RISC OS (talk) removed.
- WP:WikiProject RISC OS/Archive 2 (talk) removed.
- WP:WikiProject RISC OS/FAQ (talk) removed.
- WP:WikiProject RISC OS/Popular pages (talk) removed.
- Xara (talk) removed.
- Zarch (talk) removed.
- File:Zarch screenshot 2.png (talk) removed.
Peer review
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[edit]Categories
[edit]- Category:ARM architecture
- Category:Acorn Computers operating systems
- Category:Acorn Archimedes games
- Category:RISC OS software
Templates
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Generic
[edit]Use of the following templates may be appropriate:
- {{Infobox filesystem}}
- {{Infobox computing device}}
- {{Infobox OS}}
- {{Infobox OS version}}
- {{Infobox software}}
- {{Infobox software license}}
- {{Infobox VG}}
- {{VG Requirements}}
Resources
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikipedia wallpapers.
The following resource tools may be helpful.
- Documents at acorn.chriswhy.co.uk courtesy of Chris Whytehead
- The PCW index 1978-June 1989
- RISCWorld articles index
- Educational software reviews (from EC&T magazine as far as I can tell... can anyone confirm this?)
- Machine TRMs
- ProveIt, a tool for viewing, editing, adding, and inserting references (requires JavaScript). Enable in Preferences -> Gadgets
- Reference generator
- tab2wiki
- html2wiki
- Citation tools at WikiProject Mathematics
- For UK residents signing up at Manchester Library online gives you free access to the online archives of the Times, The Guardian and The Observer, with many articles about Acorn throughout their history.--Flibble (talk) 15:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
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