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It would be great if this sort of rating was being systematically checked -
but at a vague estimate of thirty seconds to scan, grade, and tag,
aggregated across all pages on enwiki, that's about fifteen or twenty
person-years of work to do it as a once-off, much less a rolling process.

Andrew.

On 25 March 2014 23:35, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Philippe,

The Public Policy Initiative produced strong validation for the Wikipedia
1.0 approach to assessing article quality. Was Amy Roth's research ever
published, and are there any plans to repeat it with a larger sample size
etc.? I'd say we're closer than you think to having a good way to measure
article quality.

Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]

There is at present no comprehensive automated tool that can be used to measure article and media file quality. Measuring quantity is easy; quality much more difficult.

At the Wikimedia Conference over the weekend I presented some thoughts about a possible software project, to be lead by Wikimedia UK, to tackle this.

Comments and feedback are most welcome. In particular, we would like to know whether creating such tools would be considered a useful thing to do by the community.