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WikiProject C/C++ is a Wikipedian community that aims to improve and better organize information in articles related to C, C++, and their components. 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 help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Alerts and statistics

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Proposed deletions

  • 08 Feb 2025 – Comparison of ALGOL 68 and C++ (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c): This appears to be mostly unsourced original research. Even if there are multiple independent sources that compare these two languages, it's probably better for them to be discussed on the respective pages for ALGOL and C++ for organization purpo ...

Articles to be merged

Scope

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WikiProject C/C++ is currently a child project of WikiProject Computing and WikiProject Computer science. Its scope is focused on C/C++ related topics including, but not limited to:

  • History
  • Official standards/specifications
  • Semantics
  • Operators
  • Data types
  • Libraries
  • Common practices
  • Software written in C/C++
  • Influential people

Goals

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  1. Assess all unassesed articles.
  2. Identify all untagged C/C++ related articles and tag their talk pages with the WikiProject banner.
  3. Finish integrating material left from WikiProject C
    • Make sure all C/C++ related articles listed in /Organization are properly categorized.
  4. Bring all existing C and C++ related artcles up to at least B-CLASS.
  5. Provide a comprehensive coverage of C and C++ on Wikipedia.

Progress

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Templates

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{{WikiProject C/C++|class=|importance=|c=|c++=}}

Place this banner tag at or near the top of talk pages for articles related to C/C++. It is designed to help organize the articles and to direct people here. See the template's description for more detailed instructions on usage.

{{User WP C/C++}}

WikiProject members may place this Userbox on their user pages to advertise their participation.

{{subst:Wikipedia: WikiProject C/C++/Welcome|~~~}}

Place this at the bottom of User talk pages invite possible participants.

Relevant categories

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C articles C++ articles
C compilers C++ compilers
C headers
C standard library headers
C libraries C++ libraries
C software C++ software
Articles with example C code Articles with example C++ code

For more, see WikiProject C/C++ articles.

Participation and organization

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We currently are few and do not seem to need a structure yet — everybody here is equal.

Bellow is an A-Z collated list of participants. Feel free to add yourself to the list.

Active
Inactive

Members who have been inactive on Wikipedia for over a year. This list is manually updated from time to time. If you have been away for a while and find your name here, feel free to move it back above.