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<center><big>'''Welcome to the computer history wiki!'''</big>
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<center><h2>'''Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!'''</h2>
  
This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can edit. Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!
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This is the Computer History Wiki ('CHWiki', for short), a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled; you'll have to contact an admin to get an account - see below.)
  
<big> [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Software|Software]] • [[:Category:Computer Manufacturers|Manufacturers]] • [[Operating Systems]] • [[:Category:Network protocols|Networking]] • [[:Category:Tutorials|Tutorials]] • [[Help:Contents|Help]]</big>
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Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!
  
For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and CHW conventions, please see [[Help:Contents|Help]].
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<big> [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Peripherals|Peripherals]] • [[:Category:Software|Software]] • [[:Category:Computer Manufacturers|Manufacturers]] • [[:Category:Operating Systems|Operating Systems]] • [[:Category:Network Protocols|Networking]] • [[:Category:Tutorials|Tutorials]] • [[Other Resources]]</big>
  
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For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see [[Help:Contents|Help]].
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==Introduction by the Administrators==
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This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base.  This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is ''preferred'' that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, [[:Category:Tutorials|tutorials]] and so on.
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If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, contribute it'''.  We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one.  We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing.  -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] & [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)
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==Getting an account==
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As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit, and admins have to manually create accounts. [[User:Toresbe|Tore]], who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)
  
==Introduction by the sysadmin==
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==Wanted Pages==
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This wiki is an experiment by me to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base, however, not including the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, I would ''prefer'' that a lot of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, tutorials, etcetera.
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If you're not sure what to add, the [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]] page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two [[Apple II]] pages, and a [[Windows]] page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)
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==Admin Services==
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[[User:Toresbe|Tore]] has added me to the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop admin group], and I have considerable experience as an admin on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnc Wikipedia], so if anyone needs anything which requires admin status (e.g. merging histories for duplicate articles, deleting article names with typos, etc, etc) please let me know. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 14:18, 25 July 2017 (CEST)
  
My desire to set up this English wiki stems from my frustration with adding information to a Norwegian wiki, the [http://www.nodaf.no Norwegian Computer History Society wiki], and realizing that my content would be reachable only to a very limited audience - Scandinavians, at best.
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If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, do it'''. I'd much rather remove or modify ten or twenty bad submissions than miss out on a single potentially good one.
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I hope this wiki could grow into a useful resource at some point, for everyone interested in classic computing, on all points of the knowledge scale. I realize that there are more specific wikis for Commodore and Amiga and so on, but this is an effort to be a more general computing history wiki.
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Though the current URL is of course temporary, this is an experiment to see if people actually make edits to this system and find it useful. If it "catches on", I will of course register a domain with an appropriate name. (My threshold for "catches on" is quite low - worst case scenario, this becomes a one-user CMS; I'd write this on my homepage if it wasn't in a Wiki. :)
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Revision as of 21:43, 11 February 2018

Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!

This is the Computer History Wiki ('CHWiki', for short), a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled; you'll have to contact an admin to get an account - see below.)

Currently, we've got 2,521 articles!

SystemsPeripheralsSoftwareManufacturersOperating SystemsNetworkingTutorialsOther Resources

For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see Help.

Introduction by the Administrators

This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do not have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is preferred that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, tutorials and so on.

If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, please, contribute it. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one. We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing. -- Tore & Lucky 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)

Getting an account

As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit, and admins have to manually create accounts. Tore, who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. Jnc (talk) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)

Wanted Pages

If you're not sure what to add, the Wanted pages page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two Apple II pages, and a Windows page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! Jnc (talk) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)

Admin Services

Tore has added me to the admin group, and I have considerable experience as an admin on Wikipedia, so if anyone needs anything which requires admin status (e.g. merging histories for duplicate articles, deleting article names with typos, etc, etc) please let me know. Jnc (talk) 14:18, 25 July 2017 (CEST)

News

  • Orphans - If you look at the list of orphaned pages, we have quite a few - and I have just done a lot of work reducing the number. If you create a page, you will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! Jnc (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
  • Expandable navigation boxes - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see Help:Introduction to Templates, which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen here. Jnc (talk) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)

Older news is here.