<wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:8CBDEF1CC58B49C-1160-2141@MBLK-M09.sysops.aol.com... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements I do not see what you mean. The internal one is denser. You can use http://toolserver.org/%7Edaniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php catscan to restrict the search to categories you want to study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuggestBot is probably the best tool, though, because it looks where you have already been, then finds variety of tasks for you, weighted of course in favour of fact checking.

2009/8/1 Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>om>: Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0). Remember, that's a real actual encyclopedia DVD being used in actual schools and hugely popular with teachers, based on all our hard work over the years. - d.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote: That's... a great idea! You are aware of the various "importance" ratings some WikiProject use alongside assessment ratings? My memory of the WP:1.0 (or 0.7 or 0.5) core articles thing for biographies was that people spent months arguing over who should be the most important 200 articles to give priority to working on, and then when that had been decided and the time came to work on the articles, people suddenly went quiet and slipped away. Hmm. Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Core_topi… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Core_biographi… Hey, I'm impressed! FA: 20 GA: 24 B: 102 C: 54 Of the 200 articles, all are now C or above. Oh, hang on, Back in November 2008 I said: "Only one start class article left! See the assessments on the front page. Only one article from the 200 is still start class: Cai Lun. A barnstar to whoever can bring it up to C-class first. After that, there will "only" be 35 articles to bring from C-class to B-class. Carcharoth (talk) 20:59, 29 November 2008 (UTC)" Here is the history of the assessments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Biography… Back in November 2008, it was: FA: 21 A: 2 GA: 27 B: 115 C: 34 Start: 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_T… So in fact one of the FAs has been defeatured. The number of GAs has slipped back from 27 to 24 (from 29 to 24 if you include the A-class articles), B-class has gone from 115 to 102, and C-class from 34 to 54. Either more accurate assessments, or the article standards are slipping. :-( These are, remember, the 200 core biographical articles. Carcharoth

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote: Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever remembered for more than a month I learned on my own time, it would be only a slight exaggeration. Well then, at least nobody tried to sneak Larry into it. :-) Steve, I might recommend to you [[The 100]] by Michael H. Hart, which is a sub-set of this "core biographies" list with few exceptions (Moses being the highest-ranked). Incidentally I wrote on this book elsewhere on the internet a few months ago (warning: BADSITE) though being blissfully unaware that WP had a similarly populated list: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23993&view=findpost&… —C.W.