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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjectsand the Directory of WikiProjectsfor more information.

Welcome to the WikiProject Computer science page. This group exists to improve all articles relating to computer science.

If you would like to participate in this project, then you can add your name to the list of participants, keep in touch with project developments by watchlisting Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science, and join discussions on the talk page.

1 Scope and goals
2 Participants
3 Things to do
4 Templates
- 4.1 Stubs
- 4.2 Other
5 Things to keep in mind
6 Article statistics
7 Useful resources
- 7.1 Recent changes to computer science articles

Scope and goals

The scope of the project includes all articles in the area of computer science, and may overlap with articles in areas such as mathematics, logic, and software engineering as well. 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.

Relevant Categories Related Projects

Participants

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

Things to do

Looking for something to do? The current to-do list for the project consists of these tasks:

Find out if User:Mathbot could be set to harvest CS articles and recent activity (or used as the basis for a new bot to do same)
Get pictures for these bios: Thomas Sterling (computing), Donald Becker, Michael J. Flynn, John L. Hennessy, Robert Tomasulo (note - he died in April 2008 - contacting him is now a non-option), Fred Brooks

Living Turing award winners whose biographies lack pictures: Robert Tarjan - Andrew Yao - Joseph Sifakis - Richard Stearns (computer scientist) - Ron Rivest - Raj Reddy - Michael O. Rabin - Butler Lampson - Robin Milner - Richard Karp - William Kahan - John Hopcroft - Edward Feigenbaum - Leonard Adleman - Manuel Blum - Charles Bachman - Stephen Cook - Fernando J. Corbató - Edmund M. Clarke

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 scienceRequest or write a computer science article Requested articles: Computer scienceRequest or provide an image Requested images: ComputersExpand a computer science "stub" Computer science stubsSuggest or edit a redirect which could have its own article Redirects with possibilities: ComputersAdd or find a "missing" computer science article Missing: Computer scienceAdd to or maintain the list of computer science publications List of publications in computer scienceWork on improving the computer science portal Computer science portalFind and fix computer science categories in need of attention Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention#Tagged categoriesHelp find, tag, and assess computer science articles Assessment Department

Templates

Please use the various templates below with any new articles you create or edit.

Stubs

This table lists stub types that are highly specific to computer science topics. A stub article does not have to use one of these stub types to be included in this project, however. More stub types can be found by checking the list of stub categories.

Template Result {{comp-eng-stub}} This computer engineering-related article is a stub. You can helpWikipedia by expanding it. {{comp-sci-stub}} This computer science-related article is a stub. You can helpWikipedia by expanding it. {{compu-prog-stub}} This computer programming-related article is a stub. You can helpWikipedia by expanding it. {{compu-lang-stub}} This computer language-related article is a stub. You can helpWikipedia by expanding it. {{compu-scientist-stub}} This biographical article relating to a computer scientistis a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

{{programming-software-stub}} This programming tool-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. {{soft-eng-stub}} This software engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Other

You can tag an article for inclusion in this project by adding {{WikiProject Computer science}} to the article's talk page, this is also used to rate the importance on an article. You may also add {{User WP CS}} to your user page if you wish to indicate participation in this project. Additionally, place {{Computer Science}} at the bottom of any articles that are specifically to do with Computer Science.

Template Result {{WikiProject Computer science}} This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science, which aims to create a comprehensive computer science reference for Wikipedia. Visit the project page for more information and to join in on related discussions. ??? This article has not yet received a ratingon the assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received an importance ratingon the assessment scale.

{{User WP CS}} CS This user is a member of WikiProject Computer science.

{{Computer Science}} v • d • eMajor fields of Computer Science Mathematical foundations Mathematical logic · Set theory · Number theory · Graph theory · Type theory · Category theory · Numerical analysis Theory of computation Automata theory · Computability theory · Computational complexity theory · Quantum computing theoryAlgorithms and data structures Analysis of algorithms · Algorithms · Algorithm design · Data Structures · Computational geometryProgramming languages and compilers Parsers · Compilers · Interpreters · Programming languages · Procedural programming · Object-oriented programmingConcurrent, parallel, and distributed systems Concurrency · Distributed computing · Parallel computing · Grid computing Software engineering Requirements analysis · Software design · Computer programming · Formal methods · Software testing · Software development System architecture Computer architecture · Computer organization · Operating systems Telecommunication& Networking Computer audio · Routing · Network topology · Cryptography Databases Data mining · Relational databases · SQL Artificial intelligence Automated reasoning · Computational linguistics · Computer vision · Evolutionary computation · Machine learning · Natural language processing · Robotics Computer graphics Visualization · Image processing Human computer interaction Computer accessibility · User interfaces · Wearable computing · Ubiquitous computing · Virtual reality Scientific computing Artificial life · Bioinformatics · Cognitive Science · Computational chemistry · Computational neuroscience · Computational physics · Numerical algorithms · Symbolic mathematics

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 (computer science) is a draft manual of style for CS articles.
Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia contains hints on providing good sample implementations of algorithms
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)#Typesetting of mathematical formulas describes how to typeset mathematical expressions
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (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.

Article statistics

Computer science
articles Importance Top High Mid Low NoneTotal Quality FA1 1 GA3 3 6 12 B18 24 21 5 68 Start31 21 78 37 10 177 Stub4 6 21 63 17 111 Assessed 57 54 126 105 27 369 Unassessed1 111 112 Total 57 54 126 106 138 481