Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Assessment

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One of the main tasks of WikiProject Wisconsin is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Wisconsin articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Wisconsin}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Wisconsin articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles asessed.

Wisconsin
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 5 1 8
A-Class article A 1 1
Good article GA 1 14 2 2 19
B 14 13 46 50 3 126
C 2 5 4 11
Start 4 79 224 745 60 1112
Stub 3 49 363 3634 145 4194
List 9 15 24 25 73
Assessed 21 155 672 4461 235 5544
Unassessed 1 1 501 503
Total 21 155 673 4462 736 6047

Contents

[edit] Frequently asked questions

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
How can I get an article rated? 
You are welcome to rate it yourself. If you are unable to do so for any reason, please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any member of WikiProject Wisconsin is free to add or change the rating of an article. Editors outside of the project are also welcome to participate, but are asked to respect the consensus of the project in the case of disputes.
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 project's discussion page.

[edit] Assessment instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

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

{{WikiProject Wisconsin| ... | class=??? | ...}}
Featured article FA
A-Class article A
Good article GA
B
Start
Stub
Image
NA

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

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class Wisconsin 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:Wisconsin 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


[edit] Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject Wisconsin| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

[edit] Importance scale

Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Top The article is one of the core topics about Wisconsin. A reader who is not knowledgeable about Wisconsin will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. Wisconsin
High The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Wisconsin.
Mid The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the study of Wisconsin. Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject. Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Wisconsin. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text.
Low The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Wisconsin. Few readers outside of Wisconsin may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. Articles at this range of importance will often delve into minutiae, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed.

[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.


Promega

USS Wisconsin (BB-9)Template:WP Ships USS instances

Ryan Braun

Notre Dame Academy (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Wisconsin Highway 36

Greg Dean Schmitz

M. M. Secor

William Horlick High School

Downtown Montessori Academy

[edit] Assessment log

Wisconsin 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.

[edit] January 3, 2009

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