User:Afiaetonam/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
History of the web browser

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article details the history of web browsers starting from the earliest ones to ones commonly used today. I chose this because this class is about online communities and web browsers are the gateway to may of those. Therefore, I believe the article is topical to the class. At first glance, the article seems well done with an unbiased tone, well-credited information, and enough pictures, tables, and graphics to keep it entertaining.

Evaluate the article
After reading through the article, I still think it is very well put together.

The lead section is concise and gives a brief summary of the information contained in the body of the article, touching on each of the major sections without going into too much detail.

As for the content of the article, it is relevant to the topic and spends just enough time on each section without being too concise or drawn out. Because the article topic is the history of web browsers, the information is not all recent but it is as up-to-date as can be expected.

The article does well at citing the information that is being presented. The sources vary from journals to media companies to news articles to some of the browsers themselves. The only drawback is that a lot of the sources seem to be from a while ago. Given the topic of the article however, this makes sense. Because a lot of historical web browsers have faded out of use, recent information on them would be hard to find. That being said the sources do span a large period of time from the 1980's all the way to 2020 which means that the information in the article encapsulates a good part of the history of web browsers.

The article maintains a neutral and informational tone throughout. No noticeable bias is detected and the information is presented in a factual manner. Despite being informational, the article remains readable and the information is presented at a level that makes it simple for most people to understand. It is also broken up into sensible parts that make it easier for the reader to organize and digest in their mind. The article is free of grammatical and spelling errors.

The article includes a variety of images and graphics which depict subjects like key players in the development of early web browsers, early computers, and the rise and fall of the use of specific browsers over the years. These help to give the reader a break from the reading and also provide some useful context to the words in the article. The images are well captioned though not all of them seem to be cited.

The article is a part of three WikiProjects, one being the Internet WikiProject. The posts on the talk page are mostly edits updating links or correcting minor discrepancies in previous versions of the article. There aren't that many posts on the talk page which suggests that either the original editors did a good job of making a good Wikipedia article or a lot of edits were made without first posting on the talk page.

Overall, I would consider this article to be very good. It provides a nice summary of the topic of the history of web browsers using varied and credible sources while staying as up-to-date-as possible. The only thing I would say is that the information starts to stagnate around the late 2000's and the most recent piece of information is from 2020. This isn't a huge deal however because 2021 just ended so there is still time to update as needed. Otherwise, this is a solid, well-developed article.