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Welcome to the article assessment department of WikiProject Australia. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australia articles.
Ratings are performed using the {{WP Australia}} project banner with additional parameters according to the quality of the article. When a parameter is used, the article is placed into the appropriate sub-category of Category:Australia articles by quality and Category:Australia articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
Frequently asked questions
[edit source]- How do I add an article to WikiProject Australia?
- Just add {{WP Australia}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- How can I get my article rated?
- There is currently a backlog of unassessed Australia articles. Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any editor is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
- 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.
- Where can I get more comments about my article?
- The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
- 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.
- Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
- How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?
- A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Statistics
[edit source]Current status
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{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Australia articles by quality statistics}}
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How to assess articles
[edit source]An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Australia}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA | (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class Australia articles category) | File:Featured article star.svg FA | |
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Australia articles category) | File:Featured article star.svg FL | |
| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Australia articles category) | File:Symbol a class.svg A | |
| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Australia articles category) | File:Symbol support vote.svg GA | |
| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Australia articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Australia articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Australia articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Australia articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Australia articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Australia pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Australia articles category) | ??? |
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
| FM | (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Australia pages category) | File:Featured article star.svg FM | |
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| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Australia pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Australia pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Australia pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Australia pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Australia pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Australia pages category) | Template |
The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:
| Disambig | (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class Australia pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Australia pages category) | Redirect |
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Australia}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Australia|importance=???}}
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Australia articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Australia articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Australia articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Australia articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Australia articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Australia articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
[edit source]| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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| File:Featured article star.svg FA | The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:{{Wikipedia:Featured article criteria}}
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Australia |
| File:Featured article star.svg FL | The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:{{Wikipedia:Featured list criteria}}
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients |
| File:Symbol a class.svg A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/A-Class criteria|raw=yes}} |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Australian light destroyer project |
| File:Symbol support vote.svg GA | The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
{{Wikipedia:Good article criteria}}
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Julia Gillard |
| B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/B-Class criteria|raw=yes}}
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Sydney Opera House |
| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Arts in Australia |
| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon. | Tourism in Australia |
| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Mount View, New South Wales |
| List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | Outline of Australia |
| Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Australia |
| Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | Australia (disambiguation) |
| File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Flag of Australia.svg |
| Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | Portal:Australia |
| Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia |
| Redirect | Any redirect falls under this class. | The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:Australia topics |
Importance scale
[edit source]The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Australia.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
| Importance | Criteria | Example |
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| Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Ned Kelly |
| High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Australia 108 |
| Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Supercars Championship |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | 3RRR |
| NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Australia |
| ??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. |
Article importance standards
[edit source]- Capital cities – Generally classed as top to high importance.
- Cities – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
- Companies – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
- Places – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
- Schools – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
Participants
[edit source]Active
[edit source]Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team
- 1fairywren (talk · contribs)
- 99of9 (talk · contribs)
- Abb401 (talk · contribs)
- Akitora (talk · contribs) – military history, politics, Canberra, other stuff
- Amandaaa99 (talk · contribs) – Melbourne, ecology, literature
- Arnzy (talk · contribs)
- Bezza84 (talk · contribs)
- Blacklord (talk · contribs) – maritime history (Sydney only)
- Callanecc (talk · contribs) central west NSW, military, politics, government
- CamV8 (talk · contribs)
- Candyman0000 (talk · contribs)
- Cdlw93 (talk · contribs)
- Ciaran106 (talk · contribs) – Sport predominately Football (Soccer)
- CJ (talk · contribs)
- Comte0 (talk · contribs)
- Daniel99091 (talk · contribs)
- Frickeg (talk · contribs) – politics
- Geez-oz (talk · contribs) – places, NSW, rail, aviation
- Gnangarra (talk · contribs)
- Graeme Bartlett (talk · contribs) science, government departments, technology, also looking at requests,
- grahamec (talk · contribs)
- groovybill (talk · contribs)
- Hamiltonstone (talk · contribs)
- haydo0911 (talk · contribs) central west expert
- HB4026 (talk · contribs)
- Jamessugrono (talk · contribs) Education in Australia
- JRG (talk · contribs)
- KittyLover (talk · contribs)
- KwanFlakes (talk · contribs) – Victoria, law, tertiary education
- Laterthanyouthink (talk · contribs)
- Longhair (talk · contribs)
- LukeNE (talk · contribs) – South Australia, Roads & Rail, Geography
- Mattwashdc (talk · contribs) – military law
- MelbourneStar1 (talk · contribs) – Architecture, Geography, Geology, Law, Animals.
- Oronsay (talk · contribs)
- PConlon (talk · contribs)
- Rm w a vu (talk · contribs) – Australian Music and Literature
- RockerballAustralia (talk · contribs)
- Ryan 868 (talk · contribs)
- SatuSuro (talk · contribs)
- Teraplane (talk · contribs) – Environment, transport, politics
- Thuringowacityrep (talk · contribs) – Thuringowa city and related pages
- VirtualSteve (talk · contribs)
- Sheepunderscore (talk · contribs)
- RoryReloaded (talk · contribs) – anything, I LIV' 'ERE
- Wallie (talk · contribs)
- Yahya Abdal-Aziz (talk · contribs) – a little of a lot ... music, maths, linguistics, science etc.
- SwiftyPeep (talk · contribs) – assessing political articles
- ChocolateTrain (talk · contribs)
- LlewynYiming (talk · contribs) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
- Tadyatha (talk · contribs)
- GA Melbourne (talk · contribs)
- SabreOnYouTube (talk · contribs) – Darwin-based.
Inactive
[edit source]- Amandajm (talk · contribs)
- Ansell (talk · contribs)
- Ansett (talk · contribs)
- Atlantis Hawk (talk · contribs)
- bradelle2619 (talk · contribs)- Australian places, South Coast
- Crocodile Punter (talk · contribs)
- Cuda918 (talk · contribs)
- darcyj (talk · contribs) – cricket, political history, Canberra
- darkliight (talk · contribs)
- Garglebutt (talk · contribs)
- Golden Wattle (talk · contribs)
- Iorek85 (talk · contribs)
- LiquidGhoul (talk · contribs)
- LordRobert (talk · contribs)
- Mcgrath50 (talk · contribs)
- Paddington62 (talk · contribs)
- SauliH (talk · contribs) – WP:AH
- Shadow007 (talk · contribs)
- Tim.andrews (talk · contribs)
- Todd661 (talk · contribs) – Central Coast articles
- Xtra (talk · contribs)
Requesting an assessment
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment/Requests}}
Example assessments
[edit source]To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.
Quality
- {{WP Australia|class=FA}} – to rate an article at FA-Class
- {{WP Australia|class=A}} – to rate an article at A-Class
- {{WP Australia|class=GA}} – to rate an article at GA-Class
- {{WP Australia|class=B}} – to rate an article at B-Class
- {{WP Australia|class=Start}} – to rate an article at Start-Class
- {{WP Australia|class=Stub}} – to rate an article at Stub-Class
- {{WP Australia}} – to leave the article un-assessed.
Importance
- {{WP Australia|importance=Top}} – to rate an article at Top importance
- {{WP Australia|importance=High}} – to rate an article at High importance
- {{WP Australia|importance=Mid}} – to rate an article at Mid importance
- {{WP Australia|importance=Low}} – to rate an article at Low importance
Log
[edit source]- Quality operations: A full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days. Due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.
Popular pages
[edit source]- Popular pages: List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.