On 5/4/06, Steve Block <steve.block(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On 5/4/06, Mark Gallagher
<m.g.gallagher(a)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