Wikipedia:WikiProject Filmmaking/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Filmmaking WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's filmmaking articles. 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 assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Filmmaking}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Filmmaking articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 FAQ 2 Assessment instructions 2.1 Quality scale 3 Current Statistics 4 Log 5 Requests for assessment 5.1 Current requests 5.2 Resolved requests 5.2.1 Promotion of Three-CCD to start-class 5.2.2 Promotion of Avid Free DV to start-class 6 Importance assessment

[edit] FAQ

See also the general assessment FAQ.

1. What is the purpose of the article ratings? 

The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject? 

Just add {{WikiProject Filmmaking}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.

3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Filmmaking}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do? 

Because of the number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).

4. Who can assess articles? 

Any member of the Filmmaking WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.

5. How do I rate an article? 

Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process that must be followed; this is documented in the assessment instructions.

6. Can I request that someone else rate an article? 

Of course; to do so, please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

7. 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.

8. Where can I get more comments about an article? 

Peer review can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.

9. 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. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process that must be followed; this is documented in the assessment instructions.

10. Aren't the ratings subjective? 

Yes, they are somewhat subjective, 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!

11. What if I have a question not listed here? 

If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.

[edit] Assessment instructions

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

{{WikiProject Filmmaking|class=???}}

The following values may be used:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Filmmaking articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Filmmaking articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Filmmaking articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Filmmaking articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Filmmaking articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Filmmaking articles)

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

[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 editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Supernova (as of February 2007)
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 "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. 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 good. 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, 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}}	Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/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.	Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & 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] Current Statistics

Filmmaking articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	5	5
	A	15	15
	GA	37	37
	B	146	146
	Start	412	412
	Stub	434	434
	Assessed	1049	1049
	Unassessed	0	0
	Total	1049	1049

[edit] Log

The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

[edit] Requests for 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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review process instead.

[edit] Current requests

WikiProject Filmmaking is already a part of Subtitle (captioning), and so is WikiProject Deaf, so I added {{WikiProject Filmmaking}} to Closed captioning. Now, Closed captioning needs assessment, however, these two articles really should be merged. Maybe WikiProject Filmmaking and WikiProject Deaf can work together to merge them. Taric25 08:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I have recently rewritten the article on Elstree Studios and request that it be reassessed. Thanks. David m thomas 09:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The sentences need to be consolidated into paragraphs. Also, can you provide any citations? Girolamo Savonarola 11:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resolved requests

[edit] Promotion of Three-CCD to start-class

• I'd like to make an appeal to change the status of Three-CCD from stub-class (as assessed last October) to start-class, because it meets the following criteria (per the assessment rubric):

1. it provides a moderate amount of information (more than I could find on, say, the Canon website)
2. it has a particularly useful picture or graphic (photograph and diagram of a trichroic prism assembly)
3. it has multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic (numerous in-text links to relevant wikipedia articles and an external links section)

I've also been thinking about moving the article to Three-chip and generalizing the language to apply to all three-chip imaging assemblies and not just those that use CCDs, this shouldn't be very difficult.

-Fadookie ^Talk 23:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

All seems reasonable IMHO. Girolamo Savonarola 02:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Promotion of Avid Free DV to start-class

• I'd like to make a quick appeal to change the status of Avid Free DV from stub-class to start-class, because it meets the following criteria (per the assessment rubric):

1. it provides a moderate amount of information
2. it has a particularly useful picture or graphic (demonstrative screenshot in this case)
3. it has multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic (three external links as of this writing)

I started this article and have been working on it for quite some time... to be honest I don't know if it can be expanded greatly. Feature comparisons with other DV editing programs and the rest of the Avid line would be nice, but I'm not sure if this article is the place for that kind of thing.

-Fadookie ^Talk 17:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the status, but what would make the Start class more apparent (IMHO) would be an External links section rather than text links, and maybe a few more paragraphs of information, preferably with at least one text section. In any case, I wish you good luck in your continued work on the article and hope to be able to continue upgrading its class over time! :) Girolamo Savonarola 18:57, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I see some point that can be expanded: The article miss history and dates. When was first released? What features does this program provide (maybe some enumeration instead of "minimal features") ? Cate 09:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the critiques. I've made an external links section and added a paragraph about the limitations of the software as compared to other Avid programs, although there is clearly more that can be written on the subject of features.

I don't know the release history, and I'm not sure if Avid publishes this information; perhaps the internet archive can provide some insight.

-Fadookie ^Talk 23:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Importance assessment

At the moment the department is not going to use the importance parameter for assessment. The reasoning is simply that almost all articles discuss specific topics which are mostly within the realm of one filmmaking production department - what an art director, cinematographer, director, producer, or visual effects supervisor would each consider top importance articles probably differs considerably.