User:Richard0612/Bot Assessment

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This is an essay explaining the actions of my bot; if there is a problem with the bot, or it is tagging pages inappropriately, please revert it and tell me ASAP!

Assessing articles is an important part of the workload of most, if not all WikiProjects. However, many articles fall under the jurisdiction of two or more projects. As all projects use the same or very similar assessment criteria, it seems silly for the same article to be assessed multiple times by different projects. Why can't one project look at the article, and then all other projects use the same rating?

That's where bots come in, specifically my bot, Bot0612 [although a similar thing is done by other bots]. It looks at the Talk: page for an article, and looks at the classes it has been given. Then, it adds the highest class to the template for the project that it is working for.

Almost exactly the same process can be done for importance, although as importance varies from project to project, this is less commonly requested.

This process saves hours of work [some projects have 9000+ unassessed articles!] for human editors, leaving them free to actually improve the articles in question.