User talk:AlMac~enwikibooks

I am a computer professional
I arrived here July 8 because it was suggested that what I was trying to contribute to Wikipedia more correctly belonged here, so now I am looking here to find out about here.

Here's my page on Wikipedia.

Here's one of the articles I am working on there, which some people tell me perhaps ought to be moved to Wikibooks. Computer security audit

Before starting this article, I had studied another one already on Wikipedia Auditing IT security and concluded that the earlier article applied to captains of industry that could afford comprehensive intensive computer audits, from the top down, while what I wanted to describe was the process by which most anyone can afford to do a computer security audit process to improve the security of any system, from the bottom up, gaining education in improving security.

I had started this article, because it is a main section of my earlier effort to address Security breaches, which have been much in the news this year. I was told that my earlier work did not have a neutral point of view, and while I was trying to fix that, found that my language lost its boldness, so that's one reason I started the audits article, one of a series of definitional articles that I had intended to show that if a computer user is engaged in this or that process, the risk of security breaches is dramatically reduced.

I arrived at Wikipedia approx June 27 because some material I was posting to Midrange Wiki was deemed inappropriate for that location. The reason is that the IBM midrange computer system is one of the most secure in the world, in which most security problems are because we need to interconnect different kinds of computers, including many that are less secure. My content that was inappropriate for there was that which was about computer security in general, not IBM in specific.

Basically I have been working in computers for over 40 years, and in computer security for at least half that time. I feel that collectively we have been going backwards in the science of implementing computer security as technology marches forwards.


 * So I had gone to Midrange Wiki and started to enthusiastically participate, only to learn, that much of my content was inappropriate to that site because of content outside of the IBM platform. I figure I had contributed several months worth of stuff there, and had barely begun, when I learned this.  I plan to return an post lots more there, that is directly on point IBM platform, but first I want to get my computer security efforts migrated to wherever they are welcome.

AlMac 8 July 2005 19:27 (UTC) Here is an interesting challenge: What are meaningful challenges to give students of programming, so they gain an understanding of real world programming? AlMac 22:24, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Then I moved to Wikipedia and have contributed to many articles, with over a week of effort, in intermittent bursts, trying to share my computer know-how, again to learn that perhaps that is not the right place for this. The article subject is perhaps appropriate for there, but my viewpoint perhaps would blend in better some place else.   I am not ready to give up on Wikipedia.  I may end up posting some articles there, and some here, as I get a better understanding of what belongs in the different places.
 * SQL/400 is my first effort to do a Wikibook based on what I have learned so far about what appears to be needed here. AlMac 22:53, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 22:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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