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This is computer networking task force, a place created to better organize information in articles related to computer networking. If you would like to help, please add your username at the bottom of the § Participants section below and take a look at the § Tasks section for improvement ideas.

Scope

Covering all articles related to computer networking. Networks rely heavily on protocols, and that is the primary focus, but it should also include models (e.g., OSI model), hardware, and applications. Like all good Wikipedia articles, each computer networking article should explain the basics (such as what an IP address is) as well as the technical details (such as packet structure).

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Internet
• WikiProject Computer science
• WikiProject Telecommunications
• WikiProject Software

Participants

• Zscole (talk · contribs) TCP congestion control, Software-defined networking, SD-WAN
• Stutya (talk · contribs)
• Cburnett (talk · contribs) 18:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Vap0rtranz (talk · contribs) — heterogeneous networks, technical translation, helpdesk, Linux
• Mange01 (talk · contribs) 08:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC) — Scheduling algorithms, physical layer and data link layer issues, wireless communication.
• Mancini (talk · contribs) 16:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC) much of the articles under Category:Network management
• Boscobiscotti (talk · contribs) 04:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC) Ethernet over twisted pair, IEEE_802.11, VLAN Ethernet Switch
• thefirstM (talk · contribs)
• akc9000 (talk · contribs) Routers Host (network) Routing protocol, IMP June 2007, monitoring Routing
• Namanmishra10000 (talk · contribs)
• Naveenpf (talk · contribs)
• Denis tarasov (talk · contribs) wireless networking, traffic enginering, sattelite communications, Ethernet, MVDS etc.
• Staffwaterboy (talk · contribs) 12:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
• Lanilsson (talk · contribs) Wireless_mesh 22:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
• Tinucherian (talk · contribs) 08:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
• Melab-1 (talk · contribs) 23:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)~
• Pgallert (talk · contribs) routing and switching, general principles
• QuackCD (talk · contribs) (talk) 01:30, 7 January 2009 (UTC) VoIP and other Voice-y type Network Topics.
• kgrr (talk · contribs) 22:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC) IEEE member, wireless network engineer, phy/mac, switching, networking, Wi-Fi...
• Koman90 (talk · contribs) 22:34, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
• Andrewcrawford (talk · contribs) - Majortiy of networking from thoery to pratical - BSc Comptuer Networking
• Kvng (talk · contribs)
• Gl1d3r (talk · contribs)
• W163 (talk · contribs) Jeff Ogden, aka W163 22:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
• Tenretnieht (talk · contribs) : IPv4 , IPv6 , DNS , DNSSEC , Classless Inter-Domain Routing
• Nageh (talk · contribs) bits across everything :) 13:42, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
• W Nowicki (talk · contribs) May 2013
• Ozhu (talk · contribs) 19:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
• HLachman (talk · contribs), programmer from a different century. July 2013.
• Ngriffeth (talk · contribs) 19:49, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
• IveGoneAway (talk · contribs) airborne embedded systems PHY and MAC; CAN, AUTOSAR, I²C, UART, SPI, Modbus, SCPI
• Tara Zieminek (talk · contribs)
• ImperfectlyInformed (talk · contribs) 23:29, 3 July 2016 (UTC) - web application developer interested in lower level details.
• tommiie (talk · contribs)
• ExoticViolet (talk · contribs) ExoticViolet (talk) 14:42, 10 June 2020 (UTC)reply
• Infograbber19 (talk · contribs) Network Engineer - Infograbber19 (talk) 09:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)reply
• Justanotherintrovert (talk · contribs)
• Somers-all-the-time (talk · contribs)

The general style guide for computing articles, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing, should be followed.

Contentedit

Common elementsedit

Each networking technology article should include a minimum set of standard elements, as follows:

• General description
• References and external links. cite sources!
• Appropriate categorization. See Wikipedia:Categorization.

Organizationedit

Here are a few ideas for how to organize articles. These do not necessarily have to correspond to the actual section headers and divisions, and they are no more than suggestions. Conform to them to help improve the article in question.

A protocol-specific article:

• History of the protocol
  • Who started it
  • When was it started
  • What revisions were there
  • Any related or defining RFCs?
• What other protocols were kept in mind when designing this protocol? (e.g., TCP to SCTP)
• Packet structure
• Any related technical discussions (e.g., fragmentation and reassembly for IPv4)

A hardware-specific article:

• What is it used for (what protocols, versions, etc.)
• Hardware features
• List of manufacturers & models

Talk page project templateedit

{{WikiProject Computing|class=|importance=|network=yes|network-importance=}}

Computing: Networking Unassessed

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by Networking task force.

Stubsedit

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Infoboxesedit

This task force has not yet created any infoboxes. Consult the talk page for more information.

Userboxesedit

{{User WikiProject computer networking}}

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Computer networking articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL			2				2
GA		1	1	3		2	7
B	9	17	26	14		3	69
C	14	127	303	228		42	714
Start	4	35	341	700		191	1,271
Stub		2	40	376		435	853
List		4	24	13		7	48
Category					187		187
Disambig					8		8
Project				1	7		8
Redirect		2	9	54	225		290
Template		1	1		29		31
Other					24		24
Assessed	27	189	747	1,389	480	680	3,512
Unassessed						3	3
Total	27	189	747	1,389	480	683	3,515
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 14,550			Ω = 4.99

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

• 0 articles in Category:Computer networking articles needing expert attention.
• Access network: This article might be of interest to the networking task force. Please consider triage. Hvaara ^T∞C 11:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)reply

This is probably best left to WP:TELECOM. ~Kvng (talk) 14:10, 2 June 2018 (UTC)reply

• Improve Ethernet toward good article by addressing ^{citation needed} requests. ~Kvng (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2021 (UTC)reply
• Network scheduler improvements as discussed on talk page ~Kvng (talk) 14:37, 20 November 2015 (UTC)reply
• Tagging articles for the project in relevant categories.
• WP 1.0 Assessment of both quality and importance.
• Improving quality and getting a few articles to FA and GA articles.
• Outreach : Attract new members who might be interested and possibly start a bi-monthly newsletter.