Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects
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This sub-project for the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team seeks to identify quality Wikipedia articles and key articles using information from individual WikiProjects (WPs). This approach taps into local knowledge of more specialist corners of Wikipedia and brings the benefit of some element of peer review by subject experts. There are four main areas of work:
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[edit] Using the bot for WikiProject-based assessments
WikiProjects are encouraged to use WP 1.0 bot and the assessment scheme to coordinate project activities in compiling lists of articles and ranking them by quality and (if desired) priority (also called importance). Most projects coordinate this work using a task force/department such as this, or an assessment page such as this. People conducting assessments are encouraged to use/evaluate Outriggr's tool (currently being beta tested).
Quality assessments are fairly standard across all projects, but priority/importance are evaluated relative to the project's own priorities. If desired, projects can make small adjustments to these schemes for internal use (for example, Mathematics records "B+" grades internally), but these will not be read by the bot. In the quality scheme, note that the "GA" level is not an internal assessment but rather an external tag – all GAs can be assessed as either A or B - and so a few projects choose not to use the GA level. Priority/importance can be a divisive issue in some subject areas, and may need to be handled carefully when established. Projects may choose to tailor their importance criteria to suit the specifics of their subject, to assess the priority of only a few articles, or to not assess importance at all.
[edit] Areas with poor coverage
This is currently the main focus of active work by the WVWP project. We are seeking to identify those areas that currently receive scant coverage from WikiProject oversight, to ensure that major topics in those areas are adequately assessed and included in our releases. In collaboration with WP:COUNCIL, we also hope to assist in establishing WikiProjects in those areas if needed. We are collecting information currently, see John Carter's list.
- In cases where we find active projects but little or no assessments, we may politely offer guidance and help to establish assessment activities.
- In cases where we find inactive projects in poorly covered subject areas, we may try to re-activate those projects and energize them through assessment activities.
- In subject areas where there is a clear need for a WikiProject, we may try to identify editors who could work in such areas, then we would offer support (with help from the WikiProject Council) in establishing projects and the associated assessments.
If projects clearly indicate that they are not interested in assessments (though this is increasingly rare), we may elect to perform our own assessments of key articles within that area. Once MartinBotII (see next section) is fully operational, we should be able to use the bot to identify those articles which are the most important in any field.
Until there is a WikiProject for a project-less article, you can use {{WP1.0|orphan=yes|class=}}.
[edit] Bot-assisted article selection
Work has now begun developing a bot-assisted scheme for article selection. VeblenBot or its successor will be used to scan the information from WikiProjects and combine this with "Google-type" algorithms that rank article importance to produce a list of articles that meet our criteria for inclusion for offline release versions. Manual article selection will still be available, but this is expected to provide only a small proportion of the articles.
We are still developing suitable algorithms, but the principles have been agreed. In order to be selected, an article will need to achieve above a specified "score". Part of this score will come from the quality assessment provided by the projects. The other part of the score will come from the importance as judged by at least some of the following parameters:
- Importance of the article from manual WikiProject assessments
- Links into the article – more links-in means more important. It is intended to weigh these links-in based in turn on their importance.
- Reader "hits". These data have become available recently, and used for compiling tables such as the "Top 100". Clearly articles that are popular should be considered important, though (as the Top 100 shows) this should not be the only parameter used.
- Equivalent articles in other languages (interwikis). Clearly an article that is well represented in many other language Wikipedias is important. This will also help us obtain something closer to a World-Wide view.
[edit] Article tables
Nearly all of our information is now supplied by WP1.0 bot, please see the main bot list. The article statistics are summarized in the table at the top of this page.
A few manual pages are still being used. A request was made during 2005-2006 to all known projects (as of Oct 2005) for a list of quality articles, this was called the first round. During late 2006 some projects were contacted for a list of key articles or high-importance articles from each WikiProject, this being the second round. These results were mainly recorded manually on the pages listed below, with summary information on the Main WikiProjects list (now very incomplete)
| Area | Listing status (summer 2006) | Reply status |
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| Arts | Listing complete | Round 2 almost complete |
| Language & literature | Listing not updated | Round 1 complete |
| Philosophy & religion | Listing complete | Round 2 complete |
| Everyday life | Listing not updated | Round 1 complete |
| Social Sciences & Society | Listing not updated | Round 1 complete |
| Geography | Listing not updated | Round 1 complete |
| History | Listing complete?? | Round 1 complete |
| Engineering & Technology | Listing complete | Round 1 complete |
| Mathematics | Listing complete?? | Round 1 complete |
| Science | Listing complete | Round 1 complete |
[edit] Old pages
These have been retained as a courtesy to WikiProjects who have set up links. We will try to ensure that MartinBotII can read these tables also. Humanities will cease to be an active page, though updates there will be noted. Economics & Business and Hobbies & recreation are still active, but now they are transcluded into the following sections:
- Economics and business: Part of Social Sciences & Society.
- Hobbies and recreation: Part of Everyday Life
| Area | Listing status | Reply status |
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| Economics and business | Listing complete | Round 1 complete |
| Hobbies and recreation | Listing complete | Round 1 complete |
| Humanities | Listing complete | Round 1 complete |
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