Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science

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Some Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to assemble and compile a comprehensive Computer science reference for Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

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 clicking here to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science to your watchlist, and get involved on the talk page.

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[edit] Scope and goals

The ultimate aim of this WikiProject is to create a comprehensive Computer science reference for Wikipedia. As a result, the scope of the project includes all articles in the area of computer science, although there is likely to be some overlap with articles in areas such as mathematics, logic, and software engineering as well. The specific goals of the project are to:

  • Discover and classify all computer science articles into an organized reference (ambitious)
  • Split, merge, delete, and create articles as needed to build a useful and comprehensive body of knowledge
  • Develop individual computer science articles to the highest-possible standard
  • Build a community of interest around computer science

An effort to draft a manual of style for CS articles is underway at Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style (computer science) - input and discussion is most welcome.

This project is descended from Wikipedia:WikiProject Science

[edit] Categories

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Things to do

Looking for something to do? 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 artiles Assessment Department

[edit] Participants

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

[edit] Things to keep in mind

There are a few things that you should try to keep in mind while editing computer science articles.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Conventions

[edit] 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.

[edit] Article statistics

Computer science
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA
A
Good article GA 2 1 3
B 2 1 1 3 7
Start 1 5 1 7
Stub 1 5 6
Assessed 3 2 7 7 4 23
Unassessed 0 0 0 0 105 105
Total 3 2 7 7 109 128
Former featured articles
Article Featured De-featured
Ackermann function December 2003 October 2006
C (programming language) February 2004 July 2006
Computational complexity theory April 2002 August 2004
Fractal July 2004 September 2005
Java (programming language) March 2004 July 2006

Good articles

[edit] Useful resources

Here are a few resources that you may find useful if you're contributing to this project.

[edit] Recent changes to computer science articles

Recent changes in various articles within the scope of this project (not comprehensive):

[edit] Templates

Template Result
{{User WP CS}}
CS This user is a member of WikiProject Computer science.
{{compu-AI-stub}}
Comp Sci logo This artificial intelligence-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{comp-eng-stub}}
Comp Sci logo This computer engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{comp-sci-stub}}
Comp Sci logo This computer science-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{soft-eng-stub}}
Software spanner This software engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{compu-prog-stub}}
Comp Sci logo This computer programming-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{compu-lang-stub}}
Soft Eng logo This computer language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{WikiProject Computer science}}
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science.
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