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template:Optimization algorithms
Hi Ruud!

(1) Thanks for providing some level of protection for the Eppstein article.

(2) Optimization algorithms template:

Some months ago, you were quite right to complain about the over-emphasis on continuous optimization in the optimization algorithms template. I revised the template last week, at least indicating that combinatorial optimization was a category at a high level. Perhaps you could list graph/network problems and algorithms?

Also, I added some references on combinatorial optimization to the main article on Mathematical optimization.

BTW, I saw that a new edition of Minoux/Gondran has material on biologically inspired methods. With its new hierarchical structure, there is a lot of room for more on heuristics.

It would be great if you could add collapsibility to the template.

Best regards, Kiefer .Wolfowitz 22:41, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll have a look at it tomorrow. Cheers, —Ruud 22:51, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I started a graph/network section. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 02:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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ERCIM
Dear Mr Ruud, with all the respect due to your obvious commitment for this great project that is wikipedia, I rarely saw such a mess ^^
 * 10:04, 4 November 2011 Ruud Koot (talk | contribs) moved ERCIM to User:Ruud Koot/Computer science/ERCIM

As I'm not able to move it myself I asked their Requested_moves/Current_discussions.

Best, Zorglub27 (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The article was deleted (Articles for deletion/ERCIM). I moved it into my used space because I might be able to bring it up to standards at a later time. —Ruud 23:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

ouch, I just brought it back, all my apologies for the mistake but I really thought that it was unthinkable to find this article empty as the W3C article still have a link in direction of ERCIM :/ Shall I undo what I done? Zorglub27 (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Moved it back, don't worry ;) There was a message about the deletion discussion in the log, but I'm not sure if you could see that, as your not an administrator. The fact that there are incoming links to this article is a good reason for why I think there should be an article on this organization. Just have to convince a few other editors first. —Ruud 00:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks ^^ I would be glad to contribute to the new version if needed! Zorglub27 (talk) 00:29, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Mr Ruud, with all the respect due to your obvious commitment for this great project that is wikipedia etc. etc. the W3C page contains links to the real legal entities hosting and representing W3C, i.e. MIT, ERCIM and Keio University. But the ERCIM link vanished recently. What a shame! Without W3C Wikipedia would not exist and ERCIM hosts the European branch of W3C, including all the European Members and the European staff.

Hieronym

p.s.: as a matter of fact an "EEIG" (European Economic Interest Grouping) is not an umbrella! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hieronym (talk • contribs) 17:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)


 * It's not me who you need to convince we need an article on this organization. Au contraire! I argued to keep this article, but failed to convince my colleagues. —Ruud 18:48, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Changes to the edit-protected Template:MacTutor
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Hi, you replaced the more general cat "Bibliographic databases" with the more specific on "Bibliographic databases in computer science" in this edit. However, as far as I can see, CiteSeer covered much more than just computer science. As the more specific cat is included in the more general cat, it would seem to me that it does not need to be included in the specific one. Otherwise, each and every general database should be included in the category "Bibliographic databases in computer science", too. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 17:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * "Citeseerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science." (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/about/site) —Ruud 17:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * But it is the article on CiteSeer, not CiteSeerX that I am talking about. That one starts with saying that "CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers." (Implying that even social sciences and/or humanities were included). Is that incorrect? if so, it should be corrected. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I used Citeseer and use CiteSeerX regularly and haven't seen them indexing anything beyond computer and information science, so our article would be incorrect. —Ruud 18:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, I just see that CSX redirects to CS. If CS was broader than CSX, perhaps both cats should remain and I was too hasty to remove the specific cat. The article is not very clear, though, because even the section on CSX talk all the time about "scientific and academic" papers. Computer science belongs in the sciences, not humanities/social sciences, so it would be clearer if that were specified and "academic" deleted throughout. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * (ec) I see. I'll leave it up to you to correct that then, as you seem to know more about this database than I do. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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Strongly Connected Components Algorithm
The strong components algorithm discussed in "Cheriyan-Mehlhorn/Gabow algorithm" is actually due to Dijkstra. I discussed this in the Talk section of that article. My discussion was written in the form of several suggestions to the Editor. I don't know if this is you Ruud. But if it is you might want to check it out. Hal Gabow Hngabow (talk) 21:59, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I didn't write any of that article (except for changing the article title to disambiguate it from your shortest path algorithm, although admittedly I no longer remember why I chose the current name). I'll try to find some time to incorporate some of the comments you left on the talk page into the article. Of course you're also free to do so yourself. Regards, —Ruud 22:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate your help. I didn't change the page myself because I thought it would be better to have an impartial editor do it. I showed my Talk page addition to Joseph Cheriyan and Kurt Mehlhorn and they're both fine with it. I'd be happy to answer any questions that might arise in the editing process. I understand you won't be able to do this right off the bat. Thanks for your quick reply. hal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hngabow (talk • contribs) 23:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Would it be more appropriate for me to contact another editor to update the page? Hngabow (talk) 00:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I've been quite busy with thesis work lately, so I will probably not get around to it very soon. Might I suggest you contact User:David Eppstein? Regards, —Ruud 00:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

done. thanks for the suggestion Ruud. Hngabow (talk) 01:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I would like to discuss with you where you see WP:COMPSCI going. I think I should understand this before contributing in this area. Feel free to reply here or on my talk page. Thanks, Ideogram (talk) 12:36, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * If you are referring to the restructuring proposals. I'd like to reduce the number of computing-related WikiProjects to approxiately two. WikiProject Computer science focussing on computer science in its broadest academic sense, including many aspects of computer programming, and WikiProject Computing on all practical aspects of computing (including e.g. everything currently covered by WikiProject Software). —Ruud 13:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * OK in general what do you think needs to be done next? As you know Wikipedia is always a work in progress.  I'm assessing a lot of articles and I hope we can agree on some guidelines to deal with the current situation, which I expect will continue for some time.


 * I also have a specific concern, which is I don't think that maths subjects with applications to CS should be tagged WP:COMPSCI, that would be like tagging Calculus as part of Physics. Thanks, Ideogram (talk) 13:47, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Apart from the issue with WikiProject Databases, I'm not really sure you mean with "the current situation"? What should be done next? Write more articles and tag the current ones, I guess?
 * Regarding mathematical articles, for articles concerning "basic" mathematics like arithmetic or group theory, I would agree these should not be tagged with WP:COMPSCI. For more specialist articles in logic and discrete mathematics, I'd say these should be tagged with WP:COMPSCI as well. Many of those are primarily of interest to computer scientist (e.g. CTL) or at least use papers from computer science journals as their references (e.g. Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory)) . —Ruud 17:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

As far as I can tell every article tagged WPDATABASE is included in WP:COMPSCI. I don't think this is a good idea. What can be done about this? Ideogram (talk) 23:13, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * As discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Databases, we would have to implement one of the proposals at WikiProject Databases. This would require assessing/retagging ~600 articles (more without the assistance of a bot). I think User:Pnm preferred Option 1, listed there. You might want to discuss this with him. —Ruud 23:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, and we still haven't figured out what to do with all the articles like C-SPAN Video Library, which would probably need to be sorted out first too. —Ruud 23:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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Apparently you do not value my participation. Ideogram (talk) 09:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Let me try this again. Apparently you are trying to enforce a hard limit of 100 Top-importance CS articles. I have a couple objections. First, I was not done sorting through the articles, I was going to add candidates first and then prune down. Second, if you will please note there are several articles from WPDATABASE in this category e.g. Column (database), not all of which belong here, which is the issue I raised with you above.

I'm sure you find me annoying, but we are going to need to communicate if I'm going to work in this area. If you feel that is too much trouble, then of course I will find something else to work on. Ideogram (talk) 09:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, those database articles from still need to be downgraded in importance (using ). I do value your participation, I just think you're overusing the Top-importance tag. This should be a relatively short list of articles* that probably need to be raised to FA first. And, yes, 100 is not a lot – if you take a few key algorithms (Quicksort), data structures/types (Graph (abstract data type)), fields (Computational complexity theory), biographies (Alan Turing) and concepts (Lambda calculus) – you're already there, but that's sort of the point of this category, everything else can simply go into High. Choosing these articles should therefore be done by taking all the other articles currently in the category into consideration. Simply dumping stuff (e.g. Coprocess) in there, planning to take some out later is not going to work. The correct approach would be to study the category, study the list of most popular pages and make a careful decision as to whether something critical is missing and then to think again, because humans are prone to overestimating the importance of a lot of things. When assessing lots of articles is probably best to try and constrain yourself to Mid, Low and the occasional High.
 * There are still masses of untagged articles in, and . It's probably more useful to get those tagged first than going around tweaking the importance-rating of already assesed articles.
 * * My educated guess would be that there are ~15 000 articles in the scope of the project, ~5 000 currently either tagged or marked as a relevant stub. Most of them are by definition and the long tail effect of Mid or Low importance. Tagging in the order of 100 as Top and 1000 as High importance would in my opinion be a good rule of thumb to restrain oneself and keep the rating system useful.
 * —Ruud 11:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. How old did I get? —Ruud 11:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Promoted in 2006 means six years old. :) Armbrust, B.Ed. <sup style="color:#E3A857;">Let's talk <sub style="color:#008000;">about my edits? 17:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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What about the thesis year? And you do realize that most scientist, by the time they become notable, they probably do something way different from what their thesis was about, I hope. Also, thesis URL will most of the time stay empty. Until, say, 10 years ago, theses in life sciences rarely went online and I don't think that there is any effort at bringing older stuff online, either (sadly, very few people actually read somebodies thesis...). Anyway, if you're going to include it in the infobox, then I think the year should be there, too. Happy editing! --Guillaume2303 (talk) 01:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Good suggestion about the year. I also agree that the thesis topic is often on a quite different topic, sometimes in a very different field of science, than what they become notable for. For others it's very related to their current work, or a good explanation for their favourite side interest. I think it's, like academic genealogy, a relevant bit of trivia in most cases. —Ruud 01:29, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That's how I see my own thesis by now, although I would certainly have disagreed way back when (1984). I was the first in our department to write the thing using a computer 'a mainframe, using markup language for formatting, if that tells you anything... :-) Even if the files would still exist, there'd be no way to make a decent PDF out of that... --Guillaume2303 (talk) 01:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * It's a sad thing. Hopefully university libraries will once have the time and budget to scan the parts of their collections that aren't available digitally yet. —Ruud 01:51, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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I was about to go to bed, so I'm going to fix this right now, but I don't think result of the split you just performed here makes much sense at all. One dubious blurb of text made little sense in the context of Lookead and none in Lazy evaluation, the other piece of text has nothing to do with Combinatorial optimization. —Ruud 00:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


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Talk:Mizar system
If you want an explanation for my edits, ask me. You need to dial back your use of the undo button. This in particular was egregious: if you think the article has sufficient secondary sources (which it most assuredly doesn't at the moment; there are only two references which aren't by sources considered to be primary) then remove the tags instead of throwing out a bunch of other copyediting in the process. As for the talk page, there have been two ANI threads on the primary contributor's misuse of the talk page as a forum and I was putting an end to that. I am all ears as to your explanation for reverting. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:39, 27 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Your edits to both the article and talk page where inappropriate. The article contains a sufficient number of secondary sources and you claimed to remove some dead references, which seemed perfectly alive to me. Don't expect me to cherry pick a few minor formatting changes from your mess. The inappropriate use of the talk page had already been hidden. There was absolutely no need to hide the constructive comments left there by me and other editors. Perhaps you should do a little background research before barging in from ANI. —Ruud 12:06, 27 July 2012 (UTC)


 * The "dead references" were stragglers from when I pruned a named ref that just went to the project home page. "References" that just go to the root page of a website are mostly useless. As for the talk page, I still think that it should be properly formatted, but I suppose that isn't critical right now. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hello! In this RfC You've posted your suggestion about wording of infobox into the section about the wikilink tagrget of the infobox field. Could you please consider moving your comment to the subsection Another wording, where it seemingly belongs? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 03:38, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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hello rudd....... I am student of engineering and working as coordinator for an event in our college's technical event "MINDS PARK". Can you suggest me some topics for computer departmental ppt presentation??????Madhusudan 11:08, 18 August 2012 (UTC)


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Revision of the article on logic programming
Hello Ruud Koot, As I think you know, the article on logic programming is a mess. I get the impression that no one wants to try to fix it in case Hewitt subjects them to attack, as the talk page of the logic programming article amply attests. Hewitt seems to be relatively quiet, although I notice he has recently been trying to push his point of view on the article on Goedel's incompleteness theorem. I would like to contribute to a revision, but I don't want to enter into an editing war. I can make some suggestions on the talk page, but is there a better way? Best wishes Compulogger (talk) 12:25, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, that article certainly has a bit of history. At some point even Bob Kowalski and the Association for Logic Programming got involved . Unfortunately, not much came out of that at the time. Hewitt seems to have mostly moved on to his own website and Lambda the Ultimate, but still pops up once every few months. His biography is probably the only article I won't touch anymore, the rest is just due to time constraints. So if you want to take a stab at rewriting the article on logic programming, feel free to do so. Don't forget to cite your sources, they will generally give you the winning argument if you run into any disputes. Regards, —Ruud 12:55, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Ruud. Maybe what I will do is put up some suggestions on the talk page first, together with an argument justifying the proposed changes, to see if anyone has any suggestions or reasonable counter-arguments. Then, all going well, I will implement the suggested changes afterwards. All the best. Compulogger (talk) 15:28, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

I have made a start. Wish me luck, and don't be shy to suggest changes - or offer help. Best. Compulogger (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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I have added a section to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer Security, called "Renovation of the project's page".

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Hello, Ruud Koot

I have noticed that you recently merged Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Command-line examples into Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing. While I like the decision, is it wise to merge a guideline into an essay?

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Syntax Highlighting
Hey Ruud, it's been a while. I wanted to let you know about an RfC I've started about getting a syntax highlighter going for the editing window. As someone with a background in CS, your feedback on the subject would certainly be appreciated. <font color="green" face="Candara">I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 08:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree with the consensus that seems to have been forming at the RfC. In principle, syntax highlighting would be a very good thing (assuming some care is taken with the design of the colour scheme.) The last time I tried using various gadgets to enable syntax highlight&mdash;at least two years ago by now&mdash;it turned into a horrible experience, though: the available highlights contained numerous annoying bugs and were even on a decent computer quite slow to load and use. Even a small bug or small increase increase in loading time and decrease in interactivity can more than offset the benefits. But perhaps the state-of-the-art has progressed since that time. —Ruud 17:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

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Date formats for ISO article
Your input is requested at Talk:International Organization for Standardization. (An edit that you made is mentioned there.) Mitch Ames (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't see it? —Ruud 11:43, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


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Wikidata weekly summary #31
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Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

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Second, we're looking at ways to increase the actual number of users patrolling and take off some of the workload from you lot. Part of this is increasing the prominence of the feedback page, which we're going to try to do with a link at the top of each article to the relevant page. This should be deployed on Tuesday (touch wood!) and we'll be closely monitoring what happens. Let me know if you have any questions or issues :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:29, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #33
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Wikidata weekly summary #34
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Welcome to the Michel Laurin defense team.
As you may or may not know, Michel Laurin is a world-class expert on the phylogeny and anatomy of early tetrapods, eminently familiar with the latest research. Fortunately for Wikipedia, he has joined the ranks of editors. As he is a leader in his field, he finds it necessary at times to cite his own work, all of which is in highly respected peer-reviewed journals. User:MrOllie has been repeately reverting his contributions, either with no edit summary or with a brief comment that the COI policy has been violated. As I understand it, material that "is relevant and conforms to the content policies", in the language of WP:COI, does not violate the policy.

User:Sminthopsis84, User:Medeis, User:Stranger forever, and I are following this and regularly reverting MrOllie's reversions of Laurin. I am pleased to note that you have joined the effort. Wikipedia is privileged to have Laurin as an editor, and this harassment is most undesirable.

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Wikidata weekly summary #35
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I'm loath to allow this AfD to be derailed into off-topic discussion. How about just accepting that someone else may have a different experience of academia to your own? I'm happy to accept that your experiences may be of rigorous peer review for conference papers, why can't you just accept that my experiences may differ? If you feel the article should be kept, fine. I'm not convinced. If someone can come up with a good argument for keeping then I would be happy for it to be kept, but I don't see it yet - the onus is not on me to prove that coverage doesn't exist - one can never prove that, only that insufficient coverage can be found. I asked which source is independent and provides significant coverage, simply because having looked through the sources I don't see one - maybe someone could answer that question? I'm fine with you having a different opinion to mine. Could you afford me the same courtesy? Thanks. --Michig (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2012 (UTC)


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I was once a member here years ago and remember some javascript utilities for watching for malicious edits, etc. Do you know what I'm talking about or where I can get utilities to help with editing? I also frequent other Wikimedia learning resource sites, and was wondering if you know of any efforts to really, effectively tie together the learning resources into curricula. Wikiversity never seems to advance compared to Wikipedia, and if there were just some sort of prerequisite tree based guide to the articles on Wikipedia, I think it could be a very useful addendum to traditional books and/or coursework as knowledge guide. If not I may have to bust out some ruby or something.

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Wikidata weekly summary #36
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