On 5/4/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On 5/4/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
b) Wikiproject members have better things to do than go over their content looking for stuff to delete, anyway!
With the recent explosive growth of article rating programs (as pushed by the WP:1.0 people), a number of projects are doing just that.
What are these and how do they work.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WVWP for the exhaustive details, but briefly:
1. A group of people (WP:1.0 team) decided to pick out good articles for a potential hardcopy release of Wikipedia; one of the approaches they took was asking individual WikiProject to evaluate articles in their area and report on the suitable ones. 2. Simultaneously, one WikiProject (Chemistry, if I recall correctly) hit on the idea of automating this via a "worklist", where articles would get recorded with an accompanying grade. The grades eventually developed into a more-or-less standard system of Stub - Start - B-Class - A-Class - FA, although some groups have introduced variations into the system. 3. Other WikiProjects asked to evaluate articles (per point 1) began to create their own worklists (per point 2). Each WikiProject adopted its own system for assigning the grades, though, depending on its own needs.
We're now seeing some prototype support for automatically constructing worklists from tags on article talk pages, which should make this sort of thing easier.
Kirill Lokshin