On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Not everybody pays attention to GA/FA. A public rating system where anyone can rate each article on a 0-10 scale might be controversial to implement, but on a cumulative basis would give a good statistically based valuation of the article.
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We have something similar at the moment, done by editors, not readers (a big difference):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment
That has about 6 or 7 levels, depending whether you include both GA and A-class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_by_quality
Stats are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index
Estimates as to the reliability of the assessments vary, but the stats at the time of writing are:
1489 projects (WikiProjects) 1,960,650 articles tagged 1,607,658 articles assessed
Total number of articles: 2,698,457
See also the talk page of that index for some more stats.
Carcharoth