Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics
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![]() The aim of this project is to better organise information in articles related to electronics. This page contains only suggestions, with the intention being to help other Wikipedians write high-quality articles with minimum effort. |
Scope
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This WikiProject aims to provide a standard style for writing articles about electronics. The field of electronics is the study and use of electronic devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. Many subjects are closely related to electronics: telecommunications, biomedical, design and construction of electric and electronic circuits, hardware design, etc. All these subjects are considered to be related to this project. In the future we may restrict the scope if the project grows too large, and sister projects about these other subjects may be split off. |
Subpages
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Complete list of WikiProject Electronics subpages
edit- WikiProject Electronics
- WikiProject Electronics/Alerts
- WikiProject Electronics/Article alerts
- WikiProject Electronics/Article alerts/Archive 1
- WikiProject Electronics/Articles
- WikiProject Electronics/Assessment
- WikiProject Electronics/Categories
- WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration
- WikiProject Electronics/Members
- WikiProject Electronics/Members/Archive 1
- WikiProject Electronics/Members/Archive 2
- WikiProject Electronics/Popular pages
- WikiProject Electronics/Programs
- WikiProject Electronics/Ps2svg.sh
- WikiProject Electronics/Standard symbols
- WikiProject Electronics/Task list
- WikiProject Electronics/Task list/Archive 1
- WikiProject Electronics/sidebar
Guidelines for articles in Project Electronics
editDrawing circuits
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Drawing circuits |
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One of the main parts when writing an article about electronics might be drawing of a circuit. At the moment, there are several pictures showing electronic components around Wikipedia, most of them from Commons. Anyway, paying attention to them, it will be clear that everybody has used a different program to draw them, getting different quality. Moreover, a lot of the authors did not use a specialised program, so they had to draw all the components from scratch, starting from simple lines and circles. Normally in these cases the output quality is very high, but the time to make them must have been very long. For these reasons, this project has to propose a standard to be used to draw circuits, suggesting tips or whatever, in order to get the best possible quality with the minimum effort. First of all, let us start from a sort of "wish list", with the list of all the feature this program should have:
At the moment, as far as we know, there is no program satisfying all these points. Anyway the members of the project made a list with several programs that have been used for drawing circuits on Wikipedia. Each program has a short comment and an example of its output; this list is at programs for drawing circuits. The only way to get a circuit in SVG format without drawing everything from scratch is using Xcircuit; for more info see How to draw SVG circuits using Xcircuit. Using a vector editor and prepared componentseditThere is an image on commons specially intended to help drawing SVG circuits simple, fast and flexible. Just open this image in any common vector editor (e.g. Inkscape), copy, place and join the components as you wish. This technique produces nice and small SVG images. Except for 6th it achieves all the wishes mentioned above. When drawing, it is recommended to
Feel free to extend the component list and to upload a new version. |
Tables of standard symbols
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In order to keep a consistent layout between different articles related to this project, we have created some tables with a list of standard symbols. Here is the first (and most important) of those tables. You can find the others on their own page. Please use them.
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Featured article nominations
editJoining
editIn order to join us, just add your signature to the bottom of the Members subpage. Joining will not affect your status on Wikipedia. It is just a way for us to know each other, to know other people who are interested in, and are working in the same topics as you. If you have questions to ask, guidelines to propose, or whatever else that might be related to the topic of this project you are welcome to discuss it on the project page; if you join us we will know you are concerned about it.
After you have joined the project, if you edit any article please follow the guidelines we have already chosen and add the right template on the talk page. You do not have to: nobody will ever check whether you are actually doing it, but, since we have been working on it, it makes sense to use it now!
Please do not forget to make new members welcome by leaving a message on their talk page.
Templates
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{{Infobox electronic component}} | Adds an infobox to the top of the article. See Template:Infobox electronic component for details. | |||||||||||
{{Electron-stub}} Talk |
The official electronics stub for circuit-related articles. | |||||||||||
{{WikiProject Electronics}} Talk |
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The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this WikiProject. Usage:
{{WikiProject Electronics |class= |importance= |attention= }} | ||||||||||
{{Electron-project-member}} Talk |
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To be used in your user page, to show you joined the project. | ||||||||||
{{User WikiProject Electronics}} Talk |
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Smaller version of the previous one, to be used in your user page to show you joined the project. |
Sister projects
editArticle assessment
editElectronic articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||||
GA | 4 | 14 | 27 | 1 | 46 | ||
B | 15 | 45 | 93 | 69 | 10 | 232 | |
C | 16 | 108 | 311 | 557 | 37 | 1,029 | |
Start | 2 | 17 | 272 | 1,228 | 470 | 1,989 | |
Stub | 2 | 54 | 484 | 445 | 985 | ||
List | 5 | 4 | 19 | 53 | 81 | ||
Category | 1 | 547 | 548 | ||||
Disambig | 1 | 17 | 18 | ||||
File | 28 | 28 | |||||
Portal | 16 | 16 | |||||
Project | 8 | 8 | |||||
Template | 1 | 1 | 87 | 89 | |||
NA | 18 | 48 | 197 | 263 | |||
Other | 43 | 43 | |||||
Assessed | 38 | 180 | 787 | 2,471 | 943 | 963 | 5,382 |
Unassessed | 1 | 232 | 233 | ||||
Total | 38 | 180 | 787 | 2,472 | 943 | 1,195 | 5,615 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 20,759 | Ω = 4.84 |