Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality spot check

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WikiProject for quality spot checks

This project is a collection of spot checks of article quality, carried out by different users and readers.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Status 3 Todo 3.1 Related 4 Participants 5 Scripts and tools 6 Discussions and lists 7 Statistics

[edit] Introduction

The initial goals of the spot check project are to gather together existing spot checks done by news reporters, community members, and researchers; and to list them along with their selection methodologies and dates (in as much detail as is known).

This will help to inform

• Review efforts, including the use of article-rating systems
• Analyses of encyclopedic quality and reliability
• Comparisons across fields within Wikipedia, and across different encyclopedias
• The development of better spot-checking methods, and of more useful tools for spot checking (including customizable "random article" options)

[edit] Status

Just getting started. Early-November discussion on mailing list started by Kosebamse.

[edit] Todo

Current things to do

• Identify ten historical spot checks, and gather them on a subpage here
• Write out basic guidelines for running one's own spot check -- what kinds of metadata to be sure to collect, what kinds of methods to use, how/where to record the results
• Create a page summarizing the aggregate results (statistics, improvements since each check, time taken, # of total tests)
• Link out to other quality-improvement projects (sub-FAC efforts elsewhere on Wikipedia and in de: and other languages)

[edit] Related

• Wikipedia:Fact and Reference Check - The most common targets of red links.

[edit] Participants

Add your name to the list below if you consider reducing the number of red links in wikipedia a useful task:

• +sj+
• ROGNNTUDJUU!
• MichaelBillington - But no vanity pages. I think there should be a random page button for pages that AREN'T proper nouns! (i'm sick of reading stubs about small villages)
• H a m m o

[edit] Scripts and tools

• The Random page link :-)
• ...

[edit] Discussions and lists

• /General (all current discussion, FAQs, etc)
• /Lists (lists of spot checks, with commentary)

[edit] Statistics

to come...