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WikiProject RISC OS
Shortcut	WP:RISCOS
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:

French Wikipedia

Projet:Informatique, Projet:Traduction (e.g. Discussion:An Open Letter to Hobbyists/Traduction)

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

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?

Wikipedia key policies and guidelines (?)

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content (?)

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement (?)

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing (?)

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content (?)

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles

Open tasks[edit]

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2011-11-17

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : ArcWeb(an article here, logo here, press coverage and two builds here), Rozilla (official page) (I will help: User:mabdul)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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)Reply[reply]
filecore (talk · contribs)—(On the off-chance that I have something to contribute. You never know.) 11:02, 19 April 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Flibble (talk · contribs)— 16:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sedm0784 (talk · contribs)— 10:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Trevj (talk · contribs)—(references, style, refs from The Micro User printed mag, current usage) 17:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
VinceHudd (talk · contribs)— 13:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
REH11 (talk · contribs)—(It's complicated) 15:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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.

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Suggested riscos-importance level criteria
Rating	Suggestions
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.

RISC OS pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
Assessed	0
Total	0

You have no idea how difficult this sodding table was to setup :D--Flibble (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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New articles

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.

Drawing attention to new pages

Article (+ links)	`riscos-importance`	Reason(s) for notability	Ref links
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

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Documents at acorn.chriswhy.co.uk courtesy of Chris Whytehead
The PCW index 1978-June 1989
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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)Reply[reply]
- http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500140/library_online_services/110/24_hour_library

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