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naming conventions

Per our IRC chat discussions, can we come up with a formality as to how we want to sub-organize various thing such microprocessor and ICs in general, given that many (most?) are numbered and collisions are way too common to use wikipedia-style disambiguation.

I think we've agrees the use of sub-pages is the right direction:

• company
  • /family
    • /chip

So for example, the Intel 4004 would ideally be located at: intel/mcs-4/4004. This will resolve the already-growing ambiguity issues we're getting. Even for the Intel 4004, the support chips 4001-4003 have conflict with the famous 4000 series which include those chips, albeit missing 4004 (intentional?).

To expand on that, the naming rule could be generalized into computers, systems, and programming language (although those we've already been following this naming convention for some time).

• concept
  • dependent concept
    • specialized instances of the dependent concept.

Additionally, we want to use appropriate {{XXX title|title}} and {{XXX|topic}} to display appropriate titles and links, although in general things such as "Intel 4004", "4004", and "i4004" should all link correctly to the respective article. --ChipIt (talk) 23:29, 23 December 2015 (EST)

LGTM, I think it covers it all. --Jonathan (talk) 00:27, 24 December 2015 (EST)

Yup, all sounds about right --David (talk) 15:58, 25 December 2015 (EST)

Semantic MediaWiki

Any thought about installing Semantic MediaWiki? This will help us dramatically. Would also allow us to generate lists and compare different computers, microprocessors, and whatever else we might consider adding. Essentially all the values we're putting in those infoboxes could be compared and contrasted. Thoughts? --Jonathan (talk) 02:04, 26 December 2015 (EST)

It's been installed for some time now, just not enabled since I never got around to actually testing it. I've just enabled it, go nuts with it. --David (talk) 07:23, 26 December 2015 (EST)

UPDATE so it seems to be fully functional, I've converted crystal well and all its processors into using it so that should be a pretty good starting point! -David (talk) 22:37, 28 December 2015 (EST)

resources

any has access to this book or other similar books? http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45481409; 1978, English, Book, Illustrated edition: Microprocessor data manual : from Electronic design / edited by Dave Bursky. --ChipIt (talk) 12:36, 3 January 2016 (EST)

"model name" redirecting

Hey guys, in an attempt to give some wiggle room for API queries, I want to setup a redirection policy. This includes redirecting common names, partial common names, model number (so long there are no ambiguities). I want to prioritize the redirection of cpuid because that's something we're particularly interested in for API purposes.

The following redirects should be done for all pages:

1. Full common name
2. Full common name, all lowercase
3. Common name, just family/model, if applicable
4. Common name, just family/model all alowercase, if applicable
5. Model number
6. Model number all lowercase
7. /proc/cpuid name

E.g. Intel Core i7-4770R:

• Common: intel/core i7/i7-4770r
• Intel Core i7-4770R
• intel core i7-4770r
• Core i7-4770R
• core i7-4770r
• i7-4770R
• i7-4770r
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770R CPU @ 3.20GHz

--David (talk) 15:44, 8 January 2016 (EST)

I went ahead and created WikiChip:model numbers based on folding@home dump table. Should give us a nice starting coverage. --ChipIt (talk) 18:02, 8 January 2016 (EST)

articles for years/decades

I've been thinking and I think we should start creating articles for individual years with all the notable things that happened. It would make collecting that stuff easier if we start early with it. Any thoughts? --ChipIt (talk) 04:45, 28 April 2016 (EDT)