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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 WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for 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.

Contents

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:

  1. Get pictures for these bios: Robert Tomasulo (note - he died in April 2008 - contacting him is now a non-option)
  2. 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:

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 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
{{algorithm-stub}}
O(n log n)This Algorithms-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Algorithms-related stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{algorithm-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{comp-eng-stub}}
Comp Sci logo This Computer engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{comp-sci-stub}}
alt=Stub iconThis Computer science article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Computer science stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Template:PAGENAME:}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{comp-sci-theory-stub}}
P ≟ NP This Theoretical computer science-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Theoretical computer science-related stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Comp-sci-theory-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{compu-prog-stub}}
alt=Stub iconThis Computer programming-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Computer programming-related stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Compu-prog-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{compu-lang-stub}}
alt=Stub iconThis Programming language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Programming language-related stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Prog-lang-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{compu-scientist-stub}}
alt=Stub iconThis biographical article relating to a Computer scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a biographical stub relating to a Computer scientist. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Compu-scientist-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}
{{programming-software-stub}}
Software spannerThis Programming tool-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{soft-eng-stub}}
alt=Stub iconThis Software engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Stub hierarchy
500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core 500 Template:Safesubst:str len/core }} }} }} }} This template is used to identify a Software engineering-related stub. It uses {{asbox}} which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{Software-eng-stub}} produces the message shown at the top, and adds the article to the following category: }}

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

  • If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • Two or more different stub templates may be used, if necessary.
  • Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double curly brackets, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at: 		link box=This documentation is automatically generated by Template:Asbox/templatepage.
The general information is transcluded from Template:Stub documentation. (edit | history) }}		Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science=#default= }} }}

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}}
WikiProject Computer science  
alt=WikiProject icon
x28px Computer science portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Computer science related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
 ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.
 ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
 
{{User WP CS}}
CS This user is a member of WikiProject Computer science.
{{Computer Science}}
v • d • e
Major fields of Computer science
Mathematical foundations
Theory of computation
Algorithms and Data structures
Programming languages and Compilers
Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed systems
Software engineering
System architecture
Telecommunication & Networking
Databases
Artificial intelligence
Computer graphics
Human–computer interaction
Scientific computing
Note: Computer science can also be split up into different topics or fields according to the ACM Computing Classification System.
{{Programming language lists}}
Programming language
lists

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

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science/Recognized content

Computer science articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
TopHigh Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 2
GA 2 3 4 9
B 29 33 39 7 13 121
C 3 20 39 14 21 97
Start 30 42 149 88 101 410
Stub 2 10 38 124 114 288
List 1 3 2 4 7 17
Book 1 1
Project 2 2
Template 1 8 9
NA 6 6
Other 3 1 4
Assessed 67 107 272 239 24 257 966
Unassessed 4 1 1 244 250
Total 67 111 273 240 24 501 1,216

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):

External links

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