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WikiProject Computer science

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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.

[Assessment log] • Category:Computer science articles by quality (21) • Category:Computer science articles by importance (7)

You can help assess articles using the WikiProject Computer science importance scale.

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

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2025-04-05 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet Cleanup : Computer science articles needing attention Computer science articles needing expert attention Copyedit : Computing Expand : Computer science Infobox : Computer science articles without infoboxes Maintain : Timeline of computing 2020–present Photo : Find pictures for the biographies of computer scientists (see List of computer scientists) Computing articles needing images Stubs : Computer science stubs Unreferenced : WikiProject Computer science/Unreferenced BLPs Project-related : Tag all relevant articles in Category:Computer science and sub-categories with {{WikiProject Computer science}}

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	Category:Computer science articles needing attention (27)
Request or write a computer science article	Requested articles: computer science
Request or provide an image	Category:Computing articles needing images (456)
Expand a computer science "stub"	Category:Computer science stubs (456)
Suggest or edit a redirect which could be its own article	Redirects with possibilities: Computers
Add or find a "missing" computer science article	Missing: Computer science
Help find, tag, and assess computer science articles	Assessment

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

One of the primary goals of this project is to make computer science articles understandable, so you should make an effort to explain any jargon.

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computer science contains the official manual of style for computer science articles.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics#Typesetting of mathematical formulae describes how to typeset mathematical expressions

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

Articles for deletion

• 30 May 2026 – Jugal Kalita (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Flyingphoenixchips (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

Redirects for discussion

• 19 May 2026 – Yannlecun (talk · edit · hist) →Yann LeCun was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2026 – Sergeybrin (talk · edit · hist) →Sergey Brin was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2026 – Larrypage (talk · edit · hist) →Larry Page was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2026 – Geoffreyhinton (talk · edit · hist) →Geoffrey Hinton was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2026 – Gracehopper (talk · edit · hist) →Grace Hopper was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2026 – Andrewbarto (talk · edit · hist) →Andrew Barto was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 May 2026 – Timeline of computing hardware before 1950 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Timeline of computing before 1950 by Wound theology (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 25 Apr 2026 – Coinduction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Sep 2025 – Data governance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Duncnbiscuit (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Jul 2023 – Rosenbrock methods (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HTinC23 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Dec 2020 – 3D reconstruction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Jun 2020 – Computer Olympiad (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Grutness (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 30 May 2026 – Draft:Invariant coordinate selection (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Camillemndn (t · c)
• 28 May 2026 – Draft:Emiliano De Cristofaro (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Milkyway98 (t · c)
• 28 May 2026 – Draft:John Demco (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SteveDominey (t · c)
• 28 May 2026 – Draft:Moonlight Special Micromouse (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MoonlightDoubleE (t · c)
• 26 May 2026 – Draft:AcadNet (Olympiad) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CDweller (t · c)
• 26 May 2026 – Draft:Luogu (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ムラサメ丛雨 (t · c)
• 19 May 2026 – Draft:European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nhiot (t · c)
• 19 May 2026 – Draft:Mukesh Prasad (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by IWannaBeSedated24 (t · c)
• 12 May 2026 – Draft:Kevin B. Johnson (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Laurenmalloy10 (t · c)
• 07 May 2026 – Draft:Cognitive robotic abstract machine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AmuelGa (t · c)

(40 more...)

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