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Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science
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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.
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.
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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
- Extend Artificial life possibly merging the list pages that are included, and using the History of artificial life as context for what should be fleshed out from the various lists. It would be nice to have a paragraph for each list word saying how and why it is part of Artificial life.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Article statistics
Computer science
articles |
Importance |
| Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
None |
Total |
| Quality |
 FA |
1 |
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1 |
 GA |
3 |
4 |
6 |
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13 |
| B |
18 |
24 |
23 |
5 |
2 |
72 |
| Start |
33 |
22 |
84 |
40 |
12 |
191 |
| Stub |
4 |
6 |
22 |
70 |
20 |
122 |
| Assessed |
59 |
56 |
135 |
115 |
34 |
399 |
| Unassessed |
|
4 |
1 |
2 |
128 |
135 |
| Total |
59 |
60 |
136 |
117 |
162 |
534 |
Useful resources
Here are a few resources that you may find useful if you're contributing to this project.
Recent changes to computer science articles
Recent changes in various articles within the scope of this project (not comprehensive):
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