Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science
Recent changes
- Computer science articles (10,218 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 (1,881 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 (1,335 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.
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Things to do
Looking for something to do? The current to-do list for the project consists of these tasks:
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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 |
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| 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.
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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 | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
| FM
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21 | 21 | |||||
 GA
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3 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 53 | ||
| B | 39 | 104 | 91 | 85 | 53 | 372 | |
| C | 73 | 286 | 482 | 889 | 345 | 2,075 | |
| Start | 15 | 203 | 609 | 1,679 | 1,408 | 3,914 | |
| Stub | 20 | 94 | 687 | 644 | 1,445 | ||
| List | 1 | 17 | 13 | 64 | 24 | 119 | |
| Category | 1,236 | 1,236 | |||||
| Disambig | 28 | 28 | |||||
| File | 21 | 21 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 31 | 31 | |||||
| Redirect | 4 | 18 | 65 | 311 | 398 | ||
| Template | 143 | 143 | |||||
| NA | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Other | 220 | 220 | |||||
| Assessed | 133 | 645 | 1,324 | 3,494 | 2,017 | 2,474 | 10,087 |
| Unassessed | 23 | 835 | 858 | ||||
| Total | 133 | 645 | 1,324 | 3,517 | 2,017 | 3,309 | 10,945 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 37,812 | Ω = 4.80 | |||||
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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