Well, there already is a backbone system developed to fill some of those
needs. At [[WP:1.0/I]], a few WikiProjects rate articles on basis of
quality, which is fed to a category, and then is picked up by a bot to have
a record of which articles are assessed and when. Also, it provides a
revision which can be used to check future edits against. One example of
such a page would be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Tropical_c
yclone_articles_by_quality/1.
Titoxd.