Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Robotics

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  • Update: Begin tagging and assessing all related robotics articles with project banner, located on the Template page.
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[edit] Archives

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[edit] Bringing this WikiProject to order

Since it's been a while since anyone has taken interest in this WikiProject, I'll see if I can spruce up the place a little bit. Feel free to join in... it's so quiet here... - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 22:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Home Robotics

I added a link for "Home robotics". I'm getting a sense that we have two entirely different audiences here...the home robotics people are likely to need simpler English and, in general, simpler articles and a simpler approach. Many of them will have little or no experience with Wikipedia, so let's keep this link roughly where it is, that is, the 3rd section down. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 14:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, the "For" template is a good choice, Jameson - Dan Dank55 (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
link to "Home robotics" now deleted. I'm going to leave wikiproject robotics. It's not a problem with Jameson, it's just that the wikiproject doesn't do what I hoped...I wanted to iron some things out in a general discussion rather than individually in each article, but I don't think it's going to happen, and judging from the histories in the articles I patrol, the issues tend to be different from article to article anyway. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 15:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DARPA Grand Challenge (2004)

The external links look very superfluous and messy. Can I establish consensus that finding one website which links all of the teams would be more acceptable and help clean up the article a little bit? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 20:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Follow Up: Same applies on DARPA Grand Challenge (2005). - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 22:03, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
(copied from article talk page) I had to think about it awhile and do some poking around, but I totally agree. We already have the "DGC-2004 teams" link, and looking quickly, I can't find any discrepancies between their list and ours. There's a basic rule of database design: don't list the same information in two places, because it will inevitably get out of sync, and then people get bad information. Let's put the burden of updating the information on DARPA and on the teams rather than on us. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

I created a userbox for the WikiProject:

This user is a member of WikiProject Robotics.

If anyone would like to use it tell me and I'll create a subpage for it in my userspace. Happy editing, Midorihana~iidesune? 07:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


I actually had one designed that's just sitting in my sandbox at the moment. User:Jamesontai/Sandbox15. It also includes an automatic transclusion of a listing in the WP:ROBO User Category that's on the Project Sidebar. Perhaps we could merge the two into something really kick-ass? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 17:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh! Hmm... I like yours, but the picture is a bit big. Midorihana~iidesune? 06:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
It'd be cool if the picture could be shrunk just a tad, but the text on the picture be enlarged to make it more legible --JadeFox (talk) 07:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


Some people in this group may be interested in my userbox:

This user has built a Robot Friend.




--- BAxelrod (talk) 05:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


I like all three - let's decide on an official userbox! Jiuguang Wang (talk) 21:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


I think the one in Jamesontai's sandbox is the best, although the design is a little busy. DBSpeakers

11:15 April 21,2008

Oh, I didn't know you guys were working on it. I posted mine on the front page and it already is a template> Hope you like it.    Juthani1    22:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

This user is a member of
WikiProject Robotics.
Looks awesome. :) Midorihana~いいですね? はい! 07:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project Logo

The Foundation is asking that user projects (and user pages, etc.) avoid decorative and unofficial uses of WMF logos and trademarks. As a trademark issue, they want to avoid the confusion that projects, like this one, have some official relationship with the Foundation. With that in mind, could you remove the Wiki globe from Image:Wikiprojectrobotics.png. Thanks. Dragons flight (talk) 18:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of WikiProject Robotics

Hi - I came across the following categories

and noticed that most articles are not associated with a WikiProject. These three fields are obviously very important to robotics, but I'm hesitant to add them to our project, since together, they cover more broad topics than the scope of WikiProject Robotics.

What I'd like to do is to start a new "WikiProject Intelligent Systems", covering topics such as:

Robotics would play a very important role in this project, since it is the foremost example of an intelligent system. Obviously, creating a completely new WikiProject requires a lot of time and effort, so I wonder if we can establish consensus here to make the transition into this new WikiProject - we could certainly benefit from the arrival of experts in their respective fields (closely related, but outside of robotics).

Any thoughts? --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 23:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll join, but your key problem is going to be finding article contributors. There are very few active article creators on Wikipedia in these areas. I spend most of my time maintaining guidelines and reviewing articles, but I'll help when I can. If "scope of wikiproject robotics" means if you're asking if these articles are in our scope, no, there are not many robotics editors, either. - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 00:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
That is true - there are very few editor in these areas. --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 12:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)