Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Wikipedia WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia-related articles (for scope, see the WikiProject page). 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 {{WikiProject Wikipedia}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia articles by quality and Category:Wikipedia articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality assessments 2.2 Quality scale 2.3 Importance assessment 2.4 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 June 8, 2008 3.2 June 4, 2008 3.3 June 1, 2008 3.4 May 28, 2008 3.5 May 25, 2008 3.6 May 21, 2008 3.7 May 18, 2008 3.8 May 14, 2008 3.9 May 11, 2008 3.10 May 5, 2008 3.11 April 22, 2008 3.12 April 15, 2008 3.13 April 6, 2008 3.14 April 2, 2008 3.15 March 31, 2008 3.16 March 27, 2008 3.17 March 22, 2008 3.18 March 19, 2008 3.19 March 16, 2008 3.20 March 12, 2008 3.21 March 5, 2008 3.22 February 28, 2008 3.23 February 25, 2008 3.24 February 19, 2008 3.25 February 15, 2008 3.26 February 11, 2008 3.27 February 6, 2008 3.28 February 5, 2008 3.29 January 27, 2008 3.30 January 23, 2008 3.31 January 22, 2008 3.32 January 19, 2008

[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles? 

Any member of WikiProject Wikipedia is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

What if I don't agree with a rating? 

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.

Aren't the ratings subjective? 

Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Wikipedia}} banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Wikipedia|class=???|...}}

FA

A

GA

B

Start

Stub

???

NA

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Wikipedia articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Wikipedia articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Wikipedia articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Wikipedia articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Wikipedia articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Wikipedia articles)

For pages that are not articles, the following value can also be used for the class parameter:

• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article WikiProject Wikipedia pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class Wikipedia articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Wikipedia articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
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: a particularly useful picture or graphic multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	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] Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Wikipedia}} banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Wikipedia|...|importance=???}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is a very important and frequently-viewed topic. Use it only rarely (so far only Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales are Top-importance). Articles are added to Category:Top-importance Wikipedia articles
• High - The article is about the significant Wikipedia-related articles that are not Top-importance. An article for a version of Wikipedia should have over 1,000,000 articles to be here. Articles are added to Category:High-importance Wikipedia articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic that a Wikipedian may look up, but other people would look it up only on rare occassions. An article for a version of Wikipedia should have over 100,000 articles to be here. Articles are added to Category:Mid-importance Wikipedia articles
• Low - The article is not notable enough for one of the higher categories and not many people know of the subject covered. The vast majority of various language versions of Wikipedia should go here. Articles are added to Category:Low-importance Wikipedia articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Wikipedia articles.

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

knol is assessed as "starter" class, shouldn't it be higher in its current quality?

[edit] Assessment log

Wikipedia articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

[edit] June 8, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] June 4, 2008

• Dutch language Wikipedia (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Dutch Wikipedia

[edit] June 1, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] May 28, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] May 25, 2008

• Wikipedia - The Missing Manual (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] May 21, 2008

• Wiki software (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.

[edit] May 18, 2008

• Uncyclopedia reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Encyclopedia Dramatica (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] May 14, 2008

• Erik Möller (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] May 11, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] May 5, 2008

• Here Comes Everybody (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Encyclopedia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 22, 2008

• Slovenian Wikipedia (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Slovene Wikipedia
• InterWiki (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] April 15, 2008

• Wikitext (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] April 6, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] April 2, 2008

• Dutch Wikipedia (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Dutch language Wikipedia
• Larry Sanger reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to GA-Class (Mid-Class)

[edit] March 31, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] March 27, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] March 22, 2008

• English Wikipedia reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Wikipedia Watch (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 19, 2008

• History of wikis (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 16, 2008

• History of wikis (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) removed.
• Jimmy Wales reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
• Psiphon (talk) Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 12, 2008

• Controversy over Wikipedia's biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Seigenthaler incident
• Hawaiian Wikipedia (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) removed.

[edit] March 5, 2008

• Alison Wheeler (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Cebuano Wikipedia (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Hawaiian Wikipedia (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] February 28, 2008

• Wikimedia Foundation reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• History of wikis reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Gollum browser reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• List of Wikipedias (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 25, 2008

• Gollum browser (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 19, 2008

• Wikimedia Foundation (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 15, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] February 11, 2008

• Uncyclopedia (talk) GA-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Asturian Wikipedia (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] February 6, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] February 5, 2008

• MediaWiki (talk) B-Class (Top-Class) added.
• Jimmy Wales reassessed from B-Class (Top-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Virgil Griffith (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] January 27, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] January 23, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] January 22, 2008

• Mzoli's reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to GA-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] January 19, 2008

• Seigenthaler controversy (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Controversy over Wikipedia's biography of John Seigenthaler Sr.