Thanks Sarah,

Yes, they does seem to be a lot more of it lately. I also thought that discussion board stuff would die down. They got their pound of flesh and now they seem to want blood as well.

I pretty much stayed off the boards but I was drawn in by a "Hey-let's-move-on" style opening post which just turned out to be a red herring.

Anyway, before all this kicked off I was looking at bots that do autoassessments, in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DodoBot/Requests

It works like this:
* Create a page called - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Categories
* On the page that just been created, list the sub-categories that are of interest to the project, e.g. the way that the Toronto project has done here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Toronto/Categories
* If the sub-categories have their own sub-categories, and you want to capture all of them then add (Depth:Inf) or to the 'depth' of sub-category that you want to go e.g. (Depth:2)
* You can also assign how important you want those articles in that sub-category to be labelled, for example Category: Gender and entertainment (Depth:Inf) (Importance:Mid)
- will result in all the articles in the category 'Gender and entertainment', and all the articles in the sub-categories (and the sub-categories of the sub-categories of 'Gender and entertainment' to infinity) being labelled 'mid importance'.

Depth explained a bit better:
* Category:Gender and entertainment
* Category:Feminism and the arts - (depth level = 1)
* Category:Feminist films - (depth level = 2)
* Category:Studio Ghibli - (depth level = 3)
* Category:Studio Ghibli animated films - (depth level = 4)

* Category: Gender and entertainment (Depth:2) will include all the articles in the categories - Gender and entertainment; Feminism and the arts; Feminist films

* Category: Gender and entertainment (Depth:3) will include all the articles in the categories - Gender and entertainment; Feminism and the arts; Feminist films AND Studio Ghibli

* Category: Gender and entertainment (Depth:Inf) will include all the articles in the category - Gender and entertainment AND all the lower levels, including any new sub-categories created for the Category:Studio Ghibli animated films or lower, such as Category:Studio Ghibli animated films X (depth level = 5), Category:Studio Ghibli animated films X1 (depth level = 6) ... etc. to an infinite depth.

But before you can do any of that you have to get consensus from the project participants on the categories that you want labelling Top, Mid, Low importance. That's the tricky bit.

I don't mind setting up the page and creating a provisional list probably based on existing assessments, but then it will have to go to discussion.

Marie