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“Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.”
- Steve Ballmer

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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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  • 23 Jul 2025 – Colony Framework (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Helpful Raccoon (t · c): Fails WP:NSOFT, a long-abandoned software framework sourced to its own website. I found one source [1] that contains four sentences about Colony in a list of related work, but that is only borderline s ...

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Participants

See Participants for a list of the participants in this project. Feel free to add yourself to the list.

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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

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

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Article statistics

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Recognized content
Computer science articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 2 1 4
FL 1 1
FM 21 21
GA 3 9 16 26 54
B 40 98 93 89 54 374
C 73 291 489 912 352 2,117
Start 15 203 611 1,708 1,452 3,989
Stub 20 96 681 657 1,454
List 1 17 13 65 1 26 123
Category 1,244 1,244
Disambig 28 28
File 21 21
Portal 1 1
Project 31 31
Redirect 4 18 70 313 405
Template 147 147
NA 3 3
Other 1 226 227
Assessed 134 644 1,337 3,552 2,036 2,541 10,244
Unassessed 18 811 829
Total 134 644 1,337 3,570 2,036 3,352 11,073
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 38,377 Ω = 4.80
[Assessment log] • [by quality] • [by importance]

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
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