User:CCLibmlis/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
LOCKSS

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article stood out to me specifically because of its project name: "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe." I found this humorous and it attracted my attention. As I began reading, the project itself I found to be interesting and overall a very important archival project that provides academic libraries an efficient way to retrieve digital materials if a specific subscription service has issues.

Evaluate the article
This open-source software sponsored by Stanford University appears to be an incredibly important asset for academic libraries in the archiving of scholarly journals and other digital materials. The article on LOCKSS is short in nature, but provides a neutral, well-written overview of how the project functions; providing both the benefits of the archive itself and how libraries can utilize it. According to the time stamp at the bottom of the page, the article was recently edited in May of 2022 and the most recent release of the source code for LOCKSS was uploaded in June 2021, which means the project is relatively recent and is actively being worked on. Of the citations reference, I checked the first five and only four appear to be functioning correctly. The odd one out could simply be having an error at this time but that remains to be seen. The Talk page for this article has not seen any comments since 2009 where a user was looking to see a reformatting of information with no replies. WikiProject Libraries rates this article as "Low-Importance" on the project's importance scale and "Start-class" on the project's quality scale. This tells me that the article has barely begun to be worked on and it's possible the developers are waiting for LOCKSS to come into more prominence before focusing on its Wiki entry. Though, since the article has been in existence for 16 years, I believe it's fair to assume that it truly is a very low-priority.