Welcome to the WikiProject Computer science page. The goals of the project are to build a community of interest around computer science, and to provide a focal point for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia's computer science articles. The scope of the project includes all articles in the area of computer science, including computer programming and software engineering.
If you would like to participate in this project, then you can optionally add your name to the list of participants. Keep in touch with project developments by adding this project to your watchlist and joining discussions on the talk page.
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Articles for deletion
- 07 Jun 2024 – List of important publications in cryptography (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Pppery (t · c) was closed as delete by OwenX (t · c) on 14 Jun 2024; see discussion (7 participants)
Proposed deletions
Good article nominees
- 12 May 2024 – IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sohom Datta (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be merged
- 17 May 2024 – Free software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Free and open-source software by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 17 May 2024 – Open-source software (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Free and open-source software by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Apr 2024 – Final (C++) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to C++ classes by The Anome (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Apr 2024 – Edmonds–Karp algorithm (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ford–Fulkerson algorithm by IntGrah (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Apr 2024 – Payara Server (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to GlassFish by Perzikbloesem (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Mar 2024 – Silent speech interface (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Subvocal recognition by Yutsi (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Mar 2023 – Synthetic media (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to generative artificial intelligence by Tomastvivlaren (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 12 Jan 2024 – Tracing (software) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94rain (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2023 – Rosenbrock methods (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HTinC23 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Mar 2023 – Relational algebra (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Siddharthist (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Apr 2022 – Applications of artificial intelligence (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Dec 2020 – 3D reconstruction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2020 – Computer Olympiad (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Grutness (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 12 Jun 2024 – Draft:Characteristic Samples (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gal Meirom (t · c)
- 11 Jun 2024 – Draft:Nature-Inspired CyberSecurity (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Aditya2231 (t · c)
- 11 Jun 2024 – Draft:Carolyne Ekyarisiima (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Madenge Nyerere (t · c)
- 10 Jun 2024 – Draft:Aleksander Mądry (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2401hz (t · c)
- 07 Jun 2024 – Draft:Oliver Aberth (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Thomas Geminus (t · c)
- 07 Jun 2024 – Draft:International Conference on Natural Language Processing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kasyap (t · c)
- 05 Jun 2024 – Draft:Alex Yakovlev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Thealik (t · c)
- 05 Jun 2024 – Draft:Shubu Mukherjee (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RyoneMukherjee (t · c)
- 05 Jun 2024 – Draft:Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KL4nger07 (t · c)
- 04 Jun 2024 – Draft:Common Core Ontologies (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by FinnWilson (t · c)
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Recent changes
- Computer science articles (9,715 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- Computer science stubs (0 stubs)
- Topics
- Biographies of computer scientists
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Computability and computational complexity theory
- Related projects
- Cryptography articles (1,774 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- Database articles (0 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- C/C++ articles (0 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- Java articles (1,333 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- External tools
Useful resources
Participants
See Participants for a list of the participants in this project. Feel free to add yourself to the list.
| Code | Rendering |
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| {{WP:WPCS/userbox}} | |
| {{User WikiProject Computer science}} |
Things to do
Looking for something to do? The current to-do list for the project consists of these tasks:
If none of those tasks sound appealing, then there are several places on Wikipedia where computer science related requests, suggestions and tasks have been collected together:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Suggest or edit a computer science article needing attention | Pages needing attention: Computer science |
| Request or write a computer science article | Requested articles: Computer science |
| Request or provide an image | Requested images: Computers |
| Expand a computer science "stub" | Computer science stubs |
| Suggest or edit a redirect which could have its own article | Redirects with possibilities: Computers |
| Add or find a "missing" computer science article | Missing: Computer science |
| Add to or maintain the list of computer science publications | List of publications in computer science |
| Work on improving the computer science portal | Computer science portal |
| Find and fix computer science categories in need of attention | Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention#Tagged categories |
| Help find, tag, and assess computer science articles | Assessment Department |
Things to keep in mind
There are a few things that you should try to keep in mind while editing computer science articles.
Audience
One of the primary goals of this project is to make computer science articles accessible, so you should make an effort to explain any jargon.
Conventions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style is a draft manual of style for CS articles.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics#Typesetting of mathematical formulae describes how to typeset mathematical expressions
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing#Command-line examples describes how sample shell commands should be formatted
References
Try to ensure that every computer science article includes at least a few relevant references, and direct citations for anything that could be considered controversial. Wikipedia articles cannot be a substitute for a textbook (that is what Wikibooks is for), and references can give readers some idea of where they should go if they need more information than the article can provide. Just as important, providing further reading enables other editors to verify and to extend the given information, as well as to discuss the quality of a particular source.
You can find more information on citations and references, as well as several examples for how the cited literature should look, in the style guide on citations. Wikipedia's List of publications in computer science can be a good source of references and citations for computer science articles, as can Citeseer and Google Scholar.
Scope and goals
Relevant categories
- Category:Theoretical computer science
- Category:Computer engineering
- Category:Computer programming
- Category:Computer networking
- Category:Artificial intelligence
- Category:Information science
- Category:Software engineering
Related WikiProjects
- WikiProject Academic Journals
- WikiProject Biography: Science and academia
- WikiProject Bibliographies: Science task force
- WikiProject Computational biology
- WikiProject Computer graphics
- WikiProject Computer Vision
- WikiProject Computing
- WikiProject Cryptography
- WikiProject Databases
- WikiProject Logic
- WikiProject Mathematics
WikiProject Programming languages- WikiProject Robotics
- WikiProject Systems
- WikiProject Informatics on Wikidata
WikiBooks
Article statistics
| Computer science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
| FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
| FM | 17 | 17 | |||||
 GA | 3 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 4 | 53 | |
| B | 39 | 105 | 87 | 69 | 46 | 346 | |
| C | 75 | 270 | 452 | 755 | 296 | 1,848 | |
| Start | 16 | 212 | 606 | 1,547 | 1,286 | 3,667 | |
| Stub | 20 | 99 | 652 | 575 | 1,346 | ||
| List | 1 | 16 | 12 | 51 | 22 | 102 | |
| Category | 1 | 1,142 | 1,143 | ||||
| Disambig | 2 | 1 | 28 | 31 | |||
| File | 21 | 21 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 2 | 30 | 32 | ||||
| Redirect | 4 | 16 | 52 | 291 | 363 | ||
| Template | 1 | 2 | 136 | 139 | |||
| NA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Other | 1 | 205 | 206 | ||||
| Assessed | 136 | 639 | 1,293 | 3,155 | 1,872 | 2,229 | 9,324 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 984 | 1,014 | |
| Total | 136 | 641 | 1,294 | 3,181 | 1,873 | 3,213 | 10,338 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 34,957 | Ω = 4.81 | |||||
Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Link dispenser - Check the health of external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
