The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. It looks like there's not sufficient interest to support a WikiProject on technical standards at this time. To the nom, thanks for your efforts. If you find others interested in the topic, feel free to re-propose any time (either with a new proposal or just re-opening this one). Hope all are well. Ajpolino (talk) 14:29, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Description

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The scope of this WikiProject is to discuss about, create and improve pages regarding technical standards (e.g.: ISO standards, IEC standards, pages about standards organisations, certification marks, etc.). Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 00:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group

List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
"Technical standards" is a multidisciplinary subject. Even if it looks a very wide subject, all of the standards have a lot of similarities; first of all, the ways they are created (what is called "standardization" process). For this reason, people having a different backgrounds could collaborate together efficaciously in order to create and improve the pages related to this WikiProject. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to found a single person or a single WikiProject that has enough competences to do it.

Support

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Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

  1. Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 00:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Good idea. I have help develop some of these standards and I would join the project. ~Kvng (talk) 18:09, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  3. sounds good. Daniele Pugliesi, Kvng, how is this going?--Sm8900 (talk) 23:18, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    How is what going? ~Kvng (talk) 23:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Kvng. I am simply asking how the initial proposal above is progressing, i.e., "The scope of this WikiProject is to discuss about, create and improve pages regarding technical standards (e.g.: ISO standards, IEC standards, pages about standards organisations, certification marks, etc.)."
if this is on hold, no problem. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 02:07, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Sm8900: I did not initiate this, I think that was Daniele Pugliesi ~Kvng (talk) 13:59, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kvng and Sm8900: It looks there are some issues about this proposal at the moment, as you can read in the following comments. In my opinion, these issues could be solved, except maybe the number of contributors, that is very little (2-3). For an interdisciplinare Wikiproject, I think we need at least 10 active contributors or more. Probably we need some new contributor to join en.wikipedia to help this Wikiproject, but also in the case we could find some good new contributor, it takes time to understand Wikipedia rules and guidelines... Instead, I am thinking about to contact standard organizations to ask them to help us with their knowledge on standards (in other words, we could have some new contributors more involved in discussion and less on editing, so we concentrate on editing asking to them to solve any doubt on standards). What is yor opinion about it? --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Sm8900: I do standards work and have attempted to recruit participants to contribute to Wikipedia. When we do get such contributions there are sometimes WP:NPOV and WP:UNDUE issues because of COI and inexperience with Wikipedia. I think the contributions are a net positive as these issues can be addressed by improvements by more experienced, more neutral but less knowledgable editors. ~Kvng (talk) 14:30, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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I have a lot of ideas regarding things we need to do within a "WikiProject Technical standards":

Unfortunately, I did not created a WikiProject on en.wikipedia before, so I will need the help of some user that has experience on it. On the other hand, I have a lot of suggestions and questions about technical standards, so I will help of course to propose and participate on new tasks and discussions. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 00:59, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SMcCandlish: Thank you for your support.
Defining standards as "literature" sound strange for me... actually standards are based on "technical literature", but they are also practical. For example, standards about paper size (A3, A3, A2, etc.) are defined in what we can say is a "technical literature", but after this they are applied in practice in a so broad way that nowadays we can say 99,99999% of paper sheets are produced following this standard size. In analogous way, we can find standards in a lot of objects or in general things, procedures, etc. around us, also things we encouter in our every-day life, e.g.: screws, monitors, colours, metallic materials composition, electrical networks, file formats, etc... For this reason, theoretically a lot of old and new editors could contribute to this project, contributing in specific fields (e.g. an electrical engineer or technician could be more prepared on electrical standards, a IT engineer or technician in IT standards, and so on), while people expert or passionate in QHSE or other broader fields could help on definitions of general terms as "standard", "standardization", "certification", "audit", etc. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 23:47, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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