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WikiProject Databases

This WikiProject is about articles on databases. For the project about Wikipedia database analysis, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis

Welcome to WikiProject Databases, a WikiProject to assemble and compile a comprehensive Database reference for Wikipedia. This involves creating, organizing, editing, and improving articles related to databases.

If you are interested in contributing, add yourself to the Participants list below. Keep in touch with project developments by clicking here to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases to your watchlist, and get involved on the talk page.:

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Scope and goals

Scope

This project covers all aspects of databases, including (but not limited to) logical design methodologies, query languages, storage systems, physical design, administration, and security. The information currently available on Wikipedia concerning this important, far-reaching, topic requires the talents of all available subject-matter experts, writers, editors, and those with organizational skills.

Goals

The ultimate aim of this WikiProject is to create a comprehensive Database reference for Wikipedia. As a result, the scope of the project includes all articles in the area of databases, although there is likely to be some overlap with articles in areas such as mathematics, logic, and software engineering as well. The specific goals of the project are to:

Discover and tag all database-related articles with the {{WPDATABASE}} banner.
Split, merge, delete, and create articles as needed to build a useful and comprehensive body of knowledge.
Develop individual database articles to the highest-possible standard.
- Make all database articles accessible.
- Work towards featured article status for database articles.
Build a community of interest around databases.

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Article Alerts

Articles to be split

12 Nov 2024 – Relational algebra (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rp (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

27 Dec 2024 – Draft:Engineering Historical Memory (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ArgonautOfHistory (t · c)
16 Dec 2024 – Draft:GreptimeDB (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SUUam0319 (t · c)
12 Nov 2024 – Draft:Velox (execution engine) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pedroerp-wiki (t · c)
25 Dec 2024 – Draft:AI Analytics (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Moidan4 (t · c) was declined by Tesleemah (t · c) on 25 Dec 2024
28 Oct 2024 – Draft:Global ID (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Elly Gharibnavaz (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 26 Dec 2024

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

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Articles

‹ The template below (Articles by Quality) is being considered for merging with Category class. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. ›

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Categories and assessment

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Database articles by quality statistics

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New articles

Please feel free to list your new articles on databases or database-related topics here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

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Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Keep in touch with project developments by clicking here to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases to your watchlist, and get involved on the talk page.:

Clifflandis (talk) 19:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Academic bibliographic databases[reply]
Crusio (talk) 18:17, 3 November 2009 (UTC) My interest concerns mainly academic bibliographic databases.[reply]
Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 05:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC) Interetested in Oracle and SQL Server databases.[reply]
SqlPac (talk) 03:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC) Interested primarily in SQL Server, relational databases, OLAP and a wide variety of database structures and technologies.[reply]
SecureDBA (talk) 23:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC) Interested primarily in Oracle, relational databases and database & application infrastructure security[reply]
Eckardnet (talk) 13:03, 19 January 2011 (UTC) Interested in relational theory and its practical use[reply]
Anne.naimoli (talk) 16:28, 15 September 2011 (UTC) Interested in databases and cloud computing, would like to contribute an article about cloud databases[reply]
PCJockey (talk) 06:45, 21 February 2012 (UTC) I'm interested in the technology of databases. Currently my two favorite engines are SQLite and PostgreSQL. I spend most of my time doing development work, so that is likely to be the focus I will bring to this group.[reply]
Mahanga (Talk) 17:40, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
talk 21:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hyrum Graff (talk) 08:15, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Alistairirvine (talk) 18:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC) Interested in biological databases[reply]
Deepdraft (talk) Interested in analytical, in-memory database, in-database analytics and astronomical databases
Notque (talk) Database Administrator most of my life, use a variety of databases regularly and tend to believe that all databases have a use case that is reasonable. Open Source, and Enterprise level databases, often in predictive analytics.
Blancos khim (talk) Interested in InnoDb optimization, transactions and normalization. I prefer InnoDB becaus i prefer data integrity to speed of the database.
Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} Longtime developer on various types of databases and DB access layers for them (MySQL/Maria, SQL Server, Oracle, some Postgre), have also messed around with NoSQL.
N2e (talk) – blockchain databases
Linearizable (talk) 09:06, 14 October 2017 (UTC) I'm looking to clean up and update database implementation/theory related pages. If you're here looking for work to do, feel free to ping me on the talk page.[reply]
Derek M (talk) 17:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC) I'm looking to improve Top Importance pages.[reply]
MeekMark (talk) 19:32, 1 February 2018 (UTC) Oracle fanatic.[reply]
Jeff U.^(Talk) Data Science and MS SQL Server
Varybit (talk) 23:07, 20 March 2019 (UTC) Worked on desktop databases, flat-file forms, distributed data ('NoSQL' these days), VLDB. Experience with several mainstream SQL databases including DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL. Transactional, BI, reporting and accumulating.[reply]
Avbgok (talk) 17:03, 1 December 2019 (UTC) Interested and sometimes professional in data engineering, data visualization, and databases, general and various, whatever is needed for dev things and similar.[reply]
i⋅am⋅amz3 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2020‎ (UTC)[reply]
Prashant Shahi (talk) 14:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC) Interested in Graph databases[reply]
ExaltTheHumble (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC) Interested in ELT[reply]
CoderThomasB (talk) 23:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Uglykidboe (talk) 23:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC) Interested in NoSQL, RDBM and other database technologies[reply]
Epsilon02 (talk) 07:55, 20 July 2024 (UTC) relational, graph and object DBs. Particularly interested in family trees of DB development.[reply]

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Cleanup

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Restructure proposals

Please boldly edit, or discuss on talk page.

Option 1: Task force in computing

Phase 1

Modify {{WikiProject Computing}}:
- Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes
- Make it so science=auto adds the article to WPCS, and also to Category:Automatically assessed Database articles
Get help from a bot to replace {{WikiProject Databases}} (and synonyms used) with {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes|science=auto}}.
- If the talk page already transcludes {{WikiProject Computing}}, add |science=auto|databases=yes
- Set |database-importance= with the value of importance= in the Databases template, if present.
- If |science-importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computer-science-importance= in the Databases template if present.
- If |importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computing-importance= in the Databases template if present.
Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Category:Automatically assessed Database articles and change science=auto to science=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
Delete {{WikiProject Databases}}
Rename subcategories of Category:WikiProject Databases and update {{WikiProject Computing}} accordingly.
Delete Category:WikiProject Databases.

Option 2: Task force in computing and CS

Phase 1

Create Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Science/Database theory task force.
Modify {{WikiProject Computing}}:
- Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes
- Add a Database theory task force parameter, accessed with database-theory=yes, which adds the article to WP:WPCS and to its new database theory task force
- database-theory=auto should do the same, and also add the article to Category:Automatically assessed database theory articles
Modify {{WikiProject Computer science}}:
- Add a Database theory task force parameter, accessed with database-theory=yes
Get help from a bot to replace {{WikiProject Databases}} (and synonyms used) with {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes|database-theory=auto}}.
- If the talk page already transcludes {{WikiProject Computing}}, add |database-theory=auto|databases=yes
- Set |database-importance= and|database-theory-importance with the value of importance= in the Databases template, if present.
- If |science-importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computer-science-importance= in the Databases template if present.
- If |importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computing-importance= in the Databases template if present.
Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

Review the articles the bot skipped – those which are still listed in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Databases. Manually remove <code>{{databases}}</code> and add databases=yes|database-importance=?? or databases=yes|database-importance=?? into the existing computing banner
Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Category:Automatically assessed database theory articles and change database-theory=auto to database-theory=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
Delete {{WikiProject Databases}}
Rename subcategories of Category:WikiProject Databases and update {{WikiProject Computing}} accordingly.
Delete Category:WikiProject Databases.

Option 3: Task force in computing, with automatic intersection for database-related CS articles

Phase 1

Modify {{WikiProject Computing}}:
- Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes, which adds the articles to Category:All Database articles
- Make it so science=auto adds the article to WPCS, and also to Category:Automatically assessed Database articles
- Make it add articles with databases=yes|science=yes to Category:All database-related computer science articles
Modify {{WikiProject Computer science}}:
- Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes
- Make it add articles with databases=yes to Category:All database-related computer science articles and Category:All Database articles
Get help from a bot to replace {{WikiProject Databases}} (and synonyms used) with {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes|science=auto}}.
- If the talk page already transcludes {{WikiProject Computing}}, add |science=auto|databases=yes
- Set |database-importance= with the value of importance= in the Databases template, if present.
- If |science-importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computer-science-importance= in the Databases template if present.
- If |importance= is not in the existing WP Comp template, set it with the value of |computing-importance= in the Databases template if present.
Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Category:Automatically assessed Database articles and change science=auto to science=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
Delete {{WikiProject Databases}}
Rename subcategories of Category:WikiProject Databases and update {{WikiProject Computing}} accordingly.
Delete Category:WikiProject Databases.