Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science
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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.
Did you know
- 12 Sep 2025 – Robert Uzgalis (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Viriditas (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 30 Sep 2025 – ZPE Programming Environment (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Helpful Raccoon (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 30 Sep 2025 – Bashiru Aremu (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 23 Sep 2025 – Group-IB (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DL02042024 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- 23 Sep 2025 – Associativity isomorphism (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Silvermatsu (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Redirects for discussion
Good article nominees
Articles to be merged
- 06 Sep 2025 – Do while loop (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to While loop by Peter Flass (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Sep 2025 – De Morgan's laws (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Contraposition by Marnanel (t · c); see discussion
- 10 May 2025 – Timed event system (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to DEVS by 7804j (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 17 Sep 2025 – Data governance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Duncnbiscuit (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2025 – Google Search (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Interstellarity (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2023 – Rosenbrock methods (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HTinC23 (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
- 05 Oct 2025 – Draft:Permutation Patterns (conference) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Vince Vatter (t · c)
- 01 Oct 2025 – Draft:Christian Bessiere (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fschwarzentruber (t · c)
- 26 Sep 2025 – Draft:Cerberus (consensus algorithm) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fabrice31 (t · c)
- 25 Sep 2025 – Draft:ODE filter (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Paufisch (t · c)
- 25 Sep 2025 – Draft:Red Sift (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Beck.warren (t · c)
- 20 Sep 2025 – Draft:Gene Hughes (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MsMissing (t · c)
- 17 Sep 2025 – Draft:Jalasoft (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Emmonsemmo (t · c)
- 17 Sep 2025 – Draft:Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Paulamonicascl (t · c)
- 16 Sep 2025 – Draft:International Meshing Roundtable (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Samitch87111 (t · c)
- 15 Sep 2025 – Draft:Wolfgang Banzhaf (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 35.21.248.237 (t · c)
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Recent changes
edit- Computer science articles (10,351 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 (1,902 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 (1,338 articles) (Note: changes on talk pages only!)
- External tools
Useful resources
editParticipants
editSee 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
editLooking for something to do? The current to-do list for the project consists of these tasks:
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science:
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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 |
Things to keep in mind
editThere are a few things that you should try to keep in mind while editing computer science articles.
Audience
editOne 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
edit- 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
editTry 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. Citeseer can be a good source of references and citations for computer science articles, as can Google Scholar.
Scope and goals
editRelevant categories
edit- Category:Theoretical computer science
- Category:Computer engineering
- Category:Computer programming
- Category:Computer networking
- Category:Artificial intelligence
- Category:Information science
- Category:Software engineering
- Category:Electronic engineering
- Category:Digital electronics
Related WikiProjects
edit- WikiProject Academic Journals
- WikiProject Biography: Science and academia
- WikiProject Bibliographies: Science task force
- WikiProject Computational biology
- WikiProject Computer graphics
- WikiProject Computer Vision
- WikiProject Computing, parent WikiProject
- WikiProject Cryptography
- WikiProject Databases
- WikiProject Logic
- WikiProject Mathematics
WikiProject Programming languages- WikiProject Robotics
- WikiProject Systems
- WikiProject Informatics on Wikidata
WikiBooks
editArticle statistics
editComputer science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
FM | 21 | 21 | |||||
GA | 3 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 1 | 55 | |
B | 40 | 99 | 95 | 91 | 55 | 380 | |
C | 73 | 294 | 498 | 965 | 364 | 2,194 | |
Start | 15 | 202 | 601 | 1,793 | 1,492 | 4,103 | |
Stub | 20 | 90 | 698 | 713 | 1,521 | ||
List | 1 | 18 | 14 | 65 | 1 | 27 | 126 |
Category | 1,250 | 1,250 | |||||
Disambig | 28 | 28 | |||||
File | 21 | 21 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 31 | 31 | |||||
Redirect | 4 | 20 | 73 | 318 | 415 | ||
Template | 147 | 147 | |||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 1 | 203 | 204 | ||||
Assessed | 134 | 647 | 1,336 | 3,712 | 2,023 | 2,652 | 10,504 |
Unassessed | 8 | 666 | 674 | ||||
Total | 134 | 647 | 1,336 | 3,720 | 2,023 | 3,318 | 11,178 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 39,667 | Ω = 4.80 |
You can help assess articles using the WikiProject Computer Science Importance scale.
Tools
edit- 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.