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[edit] Article rating and assessment scheme
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An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for Hawaii-related articles, which is monitored and maintained by WikiProject Hawaii. In this scheme, all Hawaii-related articles ('article' here also includes lists) may be assigned a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their class (overall quality).
The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide editors with a sub-categorised survey of the current status of Hawaii-related articles, which can then be used to prioritise the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.
For example, lower-quality articles in need of most work can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.
There will be a number of secondary benefits from the scheme, such as being able to track which kinds and topics of articles are 'neglected'.
This assessment and rating scheme follows the precepts adopted by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for details.
The class ratings are recorded by setting appropriate values to the parameters of the main WP:HAWAII Project banner, {{WikiProject Hawaii}} which are placed on the corresponding talk pages of articles about Hawaii or other closely related topics. See the template instructions for details on these and other parameters which can be set.
See the Quality scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by class/quality.
The assessments of class are assigned manually by WP:HAWAII project members (or other interested parties)– see the Rating instructions for details. Assigning a rating will automatically place the article in an appropriate rating category.
Once assigned, behind the scenes a bot (Mathbot (talk · contribs)) runs periodically (scheduled daily, about 0300hrs UTC) which compiles a variety of statistics and log data, which can then later be analysed.
It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed (indicated by changing the parameter value).
Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage of Hawaii-related content.
[edit] Instructions
An article's assessment is recorded via the use of certain parameters of the {{WikiProject Hawaii}} project banner, which is affixed to the talk pages of in-scope articles. Note that there are some other (optional) parameters to the project banners as well, see template talk:WikiProject Hawaii for full description.
The main parameter used for this exercise is class (indicates an assessment of the article's current overall quality). At least for the present, we are making only minimal use of the importance parameter: see Importance scale.
Usage summary (note the parameters are in lowercase). :
- {{WPHawaii |class=??? |importance=???}}
These parameters flag the article according to the values chosen (which then appear on the project banner), and also assign the article to a corresponding category. The possible values of these parameters and guidance criteria on which value to choose are detailed below: see Quality scale for the class parameter.
The general workflow is as follows:
- Locate an in-scope Hawaii-related article (or list), add the {{WikiProject Hawaii}} project banner to its talk page if it is not already there. (Note this also applies to new articles you may create, ie you can add the banner and the rating as you go).
- If currently unassessed (or when adding the project banner anew), determine what its class assessment rating should be, using your judgement and the criteria given here. Try to be as frank as possible in the assessment: the aim here is to appropriately identify articles needing later improvement and there's nothing to be gained by "over-ranking" them.
- Add the selected parameter values to the project banner template call, per the specified syntax. Once previewed/saved, you should see the values updated in the banner and the appropriate categories assigned.
- If in doubt as to the appropriate class level, you can either leave the value unassigned for now (ie omit the parameters), and/or consult with another project member to decide.
- If the article already has a rating, but you disagree or the article has subsequently been edited by you or someone else so that its overall quality has changed (hopefully for the better!), then you can update the parameter yourself to reflect its new status.
- Since we may (naturally enough) not be the most objective assessors of one's own work, it might be an idea in these or other unclear cases to invite another party to give the assessment. This can be done by adding the parameter/value combination |reassess=yes to the project banner, which will automatically assign the article in question to Category:Hawaii articles needing reassessment. You can also request reassessments/second opinions at the main discussion forum.
- On an ongoing basis, you can patrol the various x-class categories for improvement opportunities, and also the unassessed cats for new assessments.
[edit] Quality scale
Each article may also be assigned to a particular class, intended as a point-in-time assessment of its overall "quality" - relative to the criteria given in the quality scale which is detailed below.
This quality scale follows the definitions employed at the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment system.
The following values may be used for the class parameter (they should be entered exactly as given):
| Value | Meaning | Category |
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| FA | Articles which are currently Featured status articles | FA-Class Hawaii articles |
| A | A-class articles; | A-Class Hawaii articles |
| GA | Articles with a current Good article status | GA-Class Hawaii articles |
| B | B-class articles; | B-Class Hawaii articles |
| Start | Start-class articles; | Start-Class Hawaii articles |
| Stub | Stub-class articles; | Stub-Class Hawaii articles |
| NA | Not applicable; ie for miscellaneous pages such as disambiguation pages, which do not require an assessment | Non-article Hawaii pages |
Articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed by default in Category:Unassessed Hawaii articles.
[edit] Importance scale
Each article may also be assigned to a particular importance. At least for the present, we make only minimal use of this.
- Top: Statewide scope; multiple important subcategories; deeply reflects Hawaiian identity, life or culture. A "must-have" for Wikipedia:Version 1.0.
- High: All actual Hawaii and similar entities
- Mid: Other articles that are likely to be of general interest
- Low: Articles that are not likely to be of general interest; also miscellaneous pages such as disambiguation pages, which do not require an assessment
[edit] Detailed criteria by class
These are the detailed criteria per class/quality division, following the assessment scheme used by the Wikipedia V1.0 Editorial team.
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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 FA{{FA-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. | Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. | No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. | Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007) |
| FL {{FL-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured lists" status, and meet the current criteria for featured lists. | Definitive. Outstanding, thorough list; a great source for encyclopedic information. | No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible. | FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008) |
| A {{A-Class}} |
Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. | Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. | Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage. | Durian (as of March 2007) |
 GA{{GA-Class}} |
The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise acceptable. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class. | Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, or excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. | Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. | International Space Station (as of February 2007) |
| B {{B-Class}} |
Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles. | Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. | Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with. | Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) has a lot of helpful material but needs more prose content and references. |
| Start {{Start-Class}} |
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
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Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded. | Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage. | Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
| Stub {{Stub-Class}} |
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. | Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. | Coffee table book (as of July 2005) |
[edit] Comments
If you have more extensive comments, you can follow the link displayed in the {{Hawaii}} template to reach the "ratings summary page". This allows you to place open-ended comments in a separate file to be picked up by the same mechanism. Because this is an automated process, there is a strict rule for the naming of this file. For example, comments about an article called Hula go in Talk:Hula/Comments. It may sometimes be useful to link to that comments page from Talk:Hula.
[edit] Workgroup-level assessments
[edit] Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
| Article | Import | Date | Assess | Ver | Comments |
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| Laysan Duck [1] | High | October 28, 2007 | B | A very detailed article, could be a GA soon, but more needs to be added about its survival through Laysan's rabbit outbreak. (edit comment) | |
| Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument [2] | Top | March 21, 2008 | B | A B-class article. Could use a good list of the major species of animals and plants in the monument, especially the ones found nowhere else. Also necessary is a brief overview of the islands in the monument, with a focus on ecology. Nothing too in-depth, leave that for NWHI. This article's focus is the monument, whereas the other article's focus is the islands themselves. Information is also needed on how to access the monument, who can access, etc. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| French Frigate Shoals [3] | Top | March 21, 2008 | Start | This could be a very expansive article, so I'm keeping it's current status at "Start" class. Ecology section is good, but the history section could be more comprehensive. Info about each of the individual islands in the reef is needed. The section on the airport could be alot bigger to include its history and current status, and stuff about the LORAN station on Tern Island needs to be added. Needs more than just one sentence about La Perouse Pinnacle. If there were any shipwrecks throughout the years here that are not mentioned already, they need to be added. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Kure Atoll [4] | High | March 21, 2008 | Start | Needs elaboration in the Geological History Section. There were quite a few shipwrecks here throughout the years, detailed information on all of them should be inserted. An Ecology section needs to be made, which should have the "plastic toys killing birds" bits in it, along with any other relevant info. A picture of the garbage that washes up on the beaches would be nice. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Laysan [5] | Top | March 23, 2008 | B | Well, I did all that I listed, so B-Class finally! Not sure what else to add, but I'll be back with more specificity and to improve the cohesiveness of the prose. (edit comment) | |
| Laysan Finch [6] | Mid | March 21, 2008 | B | Needs info on population, and distribution information that is as specific as possible. Needs info on the bird's "song" or call, and if information is available, the bird's conservation status over the years and how it has changed, and which efforts are being made to preserve it still. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Laysan Millerbird [7] | High | May 30, 2007 | Start | The section on extinction is very detailed, but the intro paragraph needs to be expanded into sections on range, behavior, description, etc. SeanMD80talk | contribs (edit comment) | |
| Lisianski Island [8] | Top | Marh 21, 2008 | Start | Needs to be divided into sections. We can go much more in-depth about the islands discovery and the subsequent voyages to it by explorers afterwards. Also, in the history section we can add info about the rabbits that were introduced here from Laysan, and the Japanese bird poachers that came here circa 1904. Also an ecology section needs to be added, with all the relevant bird species that nest here and the like. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Midway Atoll [9] | Top | March 21, 2008 | B | 0.5 | B-class article approaching Good-article status (I would think). Geology and WWII/pre-WWII history is great. I would like to see, however, more history from WWII to the present. What is life like now, to the few who still live and work here? Give more details about the eco-tourism thing initaited recently. Also crucially important is an ecology section, which this article doesn't have, despite Midway being one of the key breeding grounds for many seabirds, including the Laysan Albatross, of which millions flock each year to hatch and raise their young. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) |
| Necker Island [10] | Top | May 28, 2007 | Start | Needs a detailed account of its discovery by Europeans, and all exploratory voyages thereafter, including the Tanager Expedition. An ecology section needs to be created with all relevant species of plants and animals here. Also, much more needs to be said about the stone structures on the island. Needs a section on geography/geology, as well. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Nihoa [11] | Top | March 2, 2007 | Start | *Add inline refs. —Viriditas | Talk 12:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
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| Nihoa Finch [12] | Mid | June 1, 2007 | Start | This needs to be made to a parallel structure and quality to Laysan Finch, with a description section, a range and behavior section, and a conservation section. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [13] | Top | December 10, 2006 | B | Added islands section, so B-class. Not sure what should be added now. (edit comment) | |
| Pearl and Hermes Atoll [14] | Top | June 1, 2007 | Start | First of all, separate into sections: Intro, then history, then ecology. History needs to include discovery, all subsequent explorations and/or shipwrecks, exploitation by pearl fishers, and subsequent conservation attempts. Ecology section should include all relevant species that live here. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Amaranthus brownii [15] | High | March 22, 2007 | B | It's not like there exists a ton of information or documentation about this plant, so anything that can be found is useful. Needs a section on description, and a section on its range. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:36, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
In progress... —Viriditas | Talk 00:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Status: Images added. Expansion to GA in progress. Viriditas (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) |
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| Gardner Pinnacles [16] | Mid | May 16, 2007 | Stub | Needs to be broken up into sections. One section with info on geography/geology, one section for history (though by nature not as prolific as some of the other NWHI), on for ecology. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Maro Reef [17] | Mid | December 13, 2006 | Stub | Of all the NWHI, Maro Reef is the most looked-over and ignored in terms of sources and documentation, so we have to take what we can get. Ostensibly should have a history, geology, and ecology section just like the others, but its a coral reef, not really an island. If need be, geology and ecology sections will be one. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:05, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Nihoa Carnation [18] | Mid | June 1, 2007 | Stub | ||
| Nihoa Conehead Katydid [19] | Mid | June 1, 2007 | Stub | ||
| Nihoa Millerbird [20] | High | May 30, 2007 | Stub | Needs to be expanded to the quality and structure of Laysan Finch. As such, needs a description, range and behavior, and conservation sections. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Nihoa trapdoor spider [21] | Mid | June 1, 2007 | Stub | ||
| Pritchardia remota [22] | Mid | June 1, 2007 | Stub | Status: Expansion in progress... —Viriditas | Talk 09:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC) (edit comment) | |
| Thaumatogryllus conanti [23] | Mid | June 4, 2007 | Stub |
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