Wiki143:WikiProject Databases

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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.:

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.

Categories and assessment

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Databases

Databases by country

Database algorithms

Database constraints

Database engines

Ideas banks

Database management systems

Database normalization

Online databases

Query languages

Database theory

Transaction processing

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.

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
• Crusio (talk) 18:17, 3 November 2009 (UTC) My interest concerns mainly academic bibliographic databases.
• Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 05:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC) Interetested in Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• 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.
• SecureDBA (talk) 23:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC) Interested primarily in Oracle, relational databases and database & application infrastructure security
• Eckardnet (talk) 13:03, 19 January 2011 (UTC) Interested in relational theory and its practical use
• Anne.naimoli (talk) 16:28, 15 September 2011 (UTC) Interested in databases and cloud computing, would like to contribute an article about cloud databases
• 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.
• Mahanga (Talk) 17:40, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
• talk 21:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
• Hyrum Graff (talk) 08:15, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
• Alistairirvine (talk) 18:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC) Interested in biological databases
• 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.
• Derek M (talk) 17:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC) I'm looking to improve Top Importance pages.
• MeekMark (talk) 19:32, 1 February 2018 (UTC) Oracle fanatic.
• 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.
• 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.
• i⋅am⋅amz3 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2020‎ (UTC)
• Prashant Shahi (talk) 14:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC) Interested in Graph databases
• ExaltTheHumble (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC) Interested in ELT
• CoderThomasB (talk) 23:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
• Uglykidboe (talk) 23:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC) Interested in NoSQL, RDBM and other database technologies
• Epsilon02 (talk) 07:55, 20 July 2024 (UTC) relational, graph and object DBs. Particularly interested in family trees of DB development.

See also all WikiProject Databases subpages

Cleanup

• Cleanup listing from CleanupWorklistBot

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Science
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer networking
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals

Restructure proposals

Please boldly edit, or discuss on talk page.

Option 1: Task force in computing

Phase 1

1. Modify Template:Tl:
   • Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes
   • Make it so science=auto adds the article to WPCS, and also to Template:Cl
2. 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 Template:Tl, 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.
3. Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

1. Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Template:Cl and change science=auto to science=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
2. Delete Template:Tl
3. Rename subcategories of Template:Cl and update Template:Tl accordingly.
4. Delete Template:Cl.

Option 2: Task force in computing and CS

Phase 1

1. Create Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Science/Database theory task force.
2. Modify Template:Tl:
   • 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 Template:Cl
3. Modify Template:Tl:
   • Add a Database theory task force parameter, accessed with database-theory=yes
4. 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 Template:Tl, 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.
5. Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

1. 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
2. Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Template:Cl and change database-theory=auto to database-theory=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
3. Delete Template:Tl
4. Rename subcategories of Template:Cl and update Template:Tl accordingly.
5. Delete Template:Cl.

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

Phase 1

1. Modify Template:Tl:
   • Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes, which adds the articles to Template:Cl
   • Make it so science=auto adds the article to WPCS, and also to Template:Cl
   • Make it add articles with databases=yes|science=yes to Template:Cl
2. Modify Template:Tl:
   • Add a Databases task force, accessed with databases=yes
   • Make it add articles with databases=yes to Template:Cl and Template:Cl
3. 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 Template:Tl, 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.
4. Move this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Databases task force

Phase 2

1. Review the ~600 automatically tagged articles in Template:Cl and change science=auto to science=yes if they need to stay in WPCS, and remove it otherwise.
2. Delete Template:Tl
3. Rename subcategories of Template:Cl and update Template:Tl accordingly.
4. Delete Template:Cl.