User:RyanLupin/Biographies

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Biography articles		Importance
		Top	None	Total
Quality
	FA	21	480	501
	A	2	19	21
	GA	24	966	990
	B	151	14396	14547
	Start	2	110533	110535
	Stub		336778	336778
	List		111	111
	Assessed	200	463283	463483
	Unassessed		56189	56189
	Total	200	519472	519672

Contents 1 Departments 1.1 Assessment 1.2 A-class review 1.3 Collaboration 1.4 Outreach 1.5 Peer review 1.6 Translation

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's biography articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPBiography}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] A-class review

A-class review examines current and possible future A-class articles to ensure they meet the A-class standards, which are relatively strict, though not as strict as those for featured articles. Articles may be posted there by any editor to be reviewed and the opinion of anyone is welcome.

[edit] Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. The current collaboration article is Ali.

Users can also request help improving articles they come across here

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters; a number of additional programs are either underway or being planned, however.

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Translation

The translation department serves to enhance Wikipedia's biography content by translating material from non-English articles and sources for use within the project. To coordinate this, it includes a staff of volunteer translators for various languages.

The department typically works on translating featured articles from other-language Wikipedias; project members may request assistance with other material on the department page, or directly from one of the listed translators.