User:Privatemusings/Research

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I have a concept to undertake some research into article quality here 'on-wiki'. I'd like to be able to plot Quality against Time, across a variety of articles. Yes - I know this will necessarily be subjective, but I think there are some fairly straight forward ways of gathering some useful data. It also should be kinda fun to see what kind of 'grader' you are, compared to other users!

See User:Privatemusings/ResearchBot for bot specific stuff, and any help / advice is most welcome!

How to Help

Essentially you just need to 'grade' an article by awarding it a score from 0 to 25. How you do this is entirely up to you - my intention is to use comparative statistics to create some sort of 'reliability' or 'consistency' function - the raw data is of course available to all to do likewise if they wish!

Try to be consistent, and fair, you'll probably improve as you grade a few as well, and do your best to be as objective as possible, so don't give very high grades to articles about topics which really interest you, for example! You're free to use whatever 'markscheme' you choose, but if you're unsure of how to begin, consider these criteria;

A Possible Article 'Markscheme'

these criteria need expanding - dive in!

Mark the following out of 5;

• Coverage of Subject

0 = virtually non-existent

1. = poor coverage, I'm not sure what it's about
2. = shallow coverage, I get it, but I'm not that well informed
3. = adequate coverage, covers all the bases
4. = good coverage, in depth and interesting across a good range
5. = the best possible, I don't think the article could be much better

• Quality of Prose
• Structure and Readability
• Styling and Images

1. presence of good images, and useful markup within the text