Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0

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[edit] Introduction

What's this all about? The aim of this sub-project is to grade mathematics articles for their quality and importance. Hopefully this grading will help us identify weak spots in the mathematics coverage, and identify articles which could become Good Articles or Feature articles. These gradings also link with the Wikipedia 1.0 project to produce a CD-ROM with the best of wikipedia, and are used by over 100 WikiProjects.

Anybody can grade articles, by placing the {{maths rating}} tag on the articles talk page and filling in the class and importance parameters. Grading can be modified by all editors, with disputes discussed on the articles talk page. Placing {{maths rating}} without any parameters will place the article in the unassessed category, a signal for editors to assign a rating.

• All graded articles
• Log of new gradings and changes

For the most part we follow the WP 1.0 assessment, however we have an additional grade B+ which is for articles very close to the GA standard and have a good layman's explanations, history and illustrations.

Most articles are on sub-page (linked via the navigation box below), depending on which area of mathematics they fall under. These sub-pages should include all important maths articles, and any which have had the {{maths rating}} template added. Feel free to add important or graded articles which have been missed. Not all the articles listed have the template on their talk page, and not all graded articles are listed here. You can help by adding the template to the articles talk page.

WikiProject Mathematics : Wikipedia 1.0 (Talk) v • d • e
Assessment pages: General • Basics • Analysis • Algebra • Applied • Discrete • Foundations and set theory Geometry and topology • Mathematical physics • Number theory • Probability and statistics Theorems and Conjectures • History • Mathematicians
Other: Mathematics articles by quality (statistics - log - category - articles by importance) Grading scheme • Maths rating template

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Legend 3 Rating 4 See also 5 Articles to include 6 Core Articles 7 Grading Scheme

[edit] Legend

A more extensive discussion on grading criteria can be found at WP 1.0 Assessment.

[edit] Rating

To rate an article, place the template {{maths rating}} on the article's talk page. Anyone can add a rating or change an existing rating. The class and importance parameters are used to actually rate and article. These parameters will place the article in the appropriate sub category of Category:Mathematics articles by quality and Category:Mathematics articles by importance.

The full syntax of the maths rating template is:

{{maths rating 
 |small=
 |class=
 |importance=
 |field=
 |comment=
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• small=yes can be used when a page has lots of templates, producing a more compact version. Any other value for small parameter is ignored, and the standard template results.
• Class must be one of:

  FA (for Featured Articles only)

  A

  GA (for Good Articles only)

  Bplus

  B

  Start

  Stub

  Dab (disambiguation pages)

  Cat (mathematics categories)

  Image (mathematics images)

  Template (mathematics templates)

• Importance must be one of:

  Top

  High

  Mid

  Low

  NA (for non-articles only)

• field must be one of:

  basics (elementary material and terms used throughout mathematics)

  analysis

  algebra

  general

  geometry (includes topology)

  applied

  probability and statistics

  number theory

  discrete

  foundations (logic and set theory)

  Mathematical physics

  history

  mathematicians

• Comment is used for a brief comment, usually for suggestions on how the article could be improved to bring it up to the next grade. When rating an article, it is helpful to at least put ~~~~ as a comment, so that the date of the rating can easily be seen.

If either class or importance is missing, then the article will be placed in Category:Unassessed mathematics articles or Category:Unassessed-importance mathematics articles respectively. The field element is there for future expansion to break articles up by major fields in mathematics, and currently has no effect other than to state the given field in the box. If field is missing, then the article will be placed in Category:Unassessed-field mathematics articles.

[edit] See also

• WikiProject Mathematics
• Main mathematics assessment page
• Full list of graded articles
• Log of daily changes
• Statistics
• Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index discussion on automatic indexing.
• Wikipedia:Version 0.5 first step in the project, nominations now closed, 11 mathematics articles, 7 mathematicians
• Wikipedia:Featured articles - 13 articles , 2 on review
• Wikipedia:Good articles
• Wikipedia:Vital_articles#Mathematics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia

[edit] Articles to include

The following list has been drawn from articles highlighted in Mathematics, those linked from Portal:Mathematics#Topics in Mathematics, a selection of the most linked-to maths articles (see talk page), Wikipedia:Vital_articles#Mathematics and anything else a user feels should be inlcluded as important.

Most of the lists of articles have been split into sub-pages organised by mathematical field, and are linked via the navigation box above the table of contents. (The exception are the "Core" articles, detailed below). Some subpages have not had the importance of their articles properly assessed yet into top/high/mid/low. These are split into a list of "minor" and "major" articles. "Major" means the articles should definately be included in Wikipedia 1.0; "Minor" means there is only a marginal case for inclusion. The list is not meant to be exhaustive or definitivie. Feel free to add articles, or move between minor and major, or (most ussfully) convert a list into Top/High/Mid/Low.

Please don't delete articles from the lists, no matter how trivial they are. Their trviality needs to be a matter of record, to prevent duplication of effort.

[edit] Core Articles

Article	Need	Rationale	Links	Quality	Comments
Mathematics	Top	WP:CORE. Our top-level article	6487
Algebra	Top	WP:CORE		B	Only history, classes, meanings, no examples
Geometry	Top	WP:CORE	979	B	Needs refs, C20th section
Information		WP:CORE also covered by Information technology	664
Logic		WP:CORE also covered by Philosophy	898	B	Very good but needs a pic or two. Short but OK because many sub-pages e.g. Mathematical logic
Mathematical proof		WP:CORE (originally as Proof theory)		Start
Measurement	Low	WP:CORE Not really our domain as covered by Science		Start	Needs much more, e.g. errors, precision vs. accuracy, sig figs etc
Number	Top	Listed in WP:CORE		B	Former GA, 4/13/06 - This has been removed from the GA list.
Statistics	Top	WP:CORE	1164	B	Former GA, see the reasons. Could use more background/historical information

[edit] Grading Scheme

Feel free to add any mathematics-related notes, criteria or examples.

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, 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.	Trigonometric function (Mar 2, 2007) Leonhard Euler (Mar 2, 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, from text-books or peer-reviewed papers, 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-mathematician 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.	Fermat's lat theorem (Mar 2, 2007) Regular polytope (Mar 2, 2007) Manifold (Mar 2, 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.	Euclidean geometry (Mar 2, 2007) Ordinal number (Mar 2, 2007) Homotopy groups of spheres (Mar 2, 2007)
B+ {{Bplus-Class}}	In addition to the standard 1.0 Assesments the mathematics project has a {{B-plus}} rating. This is for articles which fall just short of a Good article, These may include articles which have has potential to become a GA or have been failed GA candidates or a delisted GA. Among mathematics articles thay are some of the best. Under the 1.0 Assement these class as B-class articles.	These articles should make a good attempt at explaining the topic in an accessable manner, with a minimum of jargon. Illustrations and some historical background are normally required.	Advice from experts is useful in assessing remaining areas where coverage is missing; consider Peer review. Consider nominating for Good article status.	René Descartes (Mar 2, 2007) Introduction to general relativity (Mar 2, 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.	Set (Mar 2, 2007) Limit (mathematics) (Mar 2, 2007) Vector space (Mar 2, 2007)
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 such as a standard infobox. For example an article on groups might cover the theory well, but be weak on history and motivation. 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.	Hypergraph (Mar 2, 2007) Esther Szekeres (Mar 2, 2007) Theorem (Mar 2, 2007)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to a mathmatician who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a non-mathmatician, or a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Selig Brodetsky (Mar 2, 2007) Parallel curve (Mar 2, 2007) Algebraic number theory (Mar 2, 2007)

WikiProject Mathematics : Wikipedia 1.0 (Talk) v • d • e
Assessment pages: General • Basics • Analysis • Algebra • Applied • Discrete • Foundations and set theory Geometry and topology • Mathematical physics • Number theory • Probability and statistics Theorems and Conjectures • History • Mathematicians
Other: Mathematics articles by quality (statistics - log - category - articles by importance) Grading scheme • Maths rating template