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<center><big>'''Welcome to the computer history wiki!'''</big>
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This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can edit. Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!
 
This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can edit. Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!
  
<big> [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Software|Software]] • [[:Category:Computer Manufacturers|Manufacturers]] • [[Operating Systems]] • [[:Category:Network protocols|Networking]] • [[Help:Contents|Help]]</big>
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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>
  
For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and CHW conventions, please see [[Help:Contents|Help]].
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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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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.
 
  
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, 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)
  
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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== News ==
  
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 03:24, 29 December 2010

Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!

This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can edit. Currently, we've got 2,520 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)

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.