On 9/13/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we could use the "A-Class" rating from the WikiProject assessments here? The practical advantages are that WikiProjects can use a less process-heavy method of identifying such articles, and that the rating system is already becoming ubiquitous (at least among the more active projects). All that's really needed is some pushing towards a more consistent and well-defined way for the projects to assign this rating; and hopefully we'll have some working examples of more rigorous approaches to this soon.
That's an excellent idea!
Hit 'send' too soon. That's an excellent idea because the problem with FAC or GA is that they're committee-based (even if it's an ad-hoc committee of regulars), and committees don't scale. (This, by the way, is I think why AFD and DRV get poisonous - the ad-hoc committee changes the process for its convenience without actively considering accessibility or scalability, so it becomes insular and jargonistic.) Using the WikiProjects is a way to make the committees scale with the article and editor base.
Perhaps of interest here (but please note that we're just getting started, so the process may have some issues we haven't hit upon yet):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Assessme...