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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.




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Articles for deletion

  • 29 Jan 2026 – XBase++ (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Helpful Raccoon (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
  • 23 Jan 2026 – Shawn Powers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cinaroot (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
  • 07 Jan 2026 – Perry Kivolowitz (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kire1975 (t · c); see discussion (13 participants; relisted)
  • 11 Jan 2026 – Kathaleen Land (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Historyexpert2 (t · c) was closed as merge by EmilyR34 (t · c) on 25 Jan 2026; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)

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Peer reviews

Articles to be merged

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Recent changes

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Useful resources

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Participants

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See 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

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

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

Things to keep in mind

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

Audience

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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

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References

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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. Citeseer can be a good source of references and citations for computer science articles, as can Google Scholar.

Scope and goals

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Relevant categories

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WikiBooks

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Article statistics

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Recognized content
Computer science articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 2 1 4
FL 1 1
FM 21 21
A 2 2
GA 3 8 18 27 1 57
B 41 97 97 93 55 383
C 73 301 502 999 382 2,257
Start 16 203 600 1,837 1,551 4,207
Stub 21 89 715 759 1,584
List 1 18 15 74 21 129
Category 1,254 1,254
Disambig 28 28
File 20 20
Portal 1 1
Project 31 31
Redirect 5 25 77 329 436
Template 146 146
NA 21 21
Other 1 188 189
Assessed 136 655 1,347 3,823 2,039 2,771 10,771
Unassessed 11 614 625
Total 136 655 1,347 3,834 2,039 3,385 11,396
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 40,832 Ω = 4.81
[Assessment log] • [by quality] • [by importance]

You can help assess articles using the WikiProject Computer Science Importance scale.

Tools

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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.
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