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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.

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[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

[edit] Participants

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

[edit] Scripts and tools

[edit] Discussions and lists

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

[edit] Statistics

to come...