Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment

Welcome to the article assessment department of WikiProject Australia. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australia articles.

Ratings are performed using the WP Australia project banner with additional parameters according to the quality of the article. When a parameter is used, the articles is placed into the appropriate sub-category of Category:Australia articles by quality and Category:Australia articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to WikiProject Australia? : Just add WP Australia to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * How can I get my article rated? : There is currently a backlog of unassessed Australia articles. Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any editor is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Please add your name to the list of participants if you wish to assess articles on a regular basis.
 * Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? : Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
 * Where can I get more comments about my article? : The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
 * How can I keep track of changes in article ratings? : A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the statistics may be more accessible.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Australia.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

Article importance standards

 * Capital cities – Generally classed as top to high importance.
 * Cities – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
 * Companies – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
 * Places – Generally classed as mid to low importance.
 * Schools – Generally classed as mid to low importance.

Active
Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team


 * 1) – military history, politics, Canberra, other stuff
 * 2) – Melbourne, ecology, literature
 * 3) – maritime history (Sydney only)
 * 4) central west NSW, military, politics, government
 * 5) – Sport predominately Football (Soccer)
 * 6) – politics
 * 7) – places, NSW, rail, aviation
 * 8) science, government departments, technology, also looking at requests,
 * 9) central west expert
 * 10) Education in Australia
 * 11) – Victoria, law, tertiary education
 * 12) – South Australia, Roads & Rail, Geography
 * 13) – military law
 * 14) – Architecture, Geography, Geology, Law, Animals.
 * 15) – Australian Music and Literature
 * 16) – Environment, transport, politics
 * 17) – Thuringowa city and related pages
 * 18) – anything, I LIV' 'ERE
 * 19) – a little of a lot ... music, maths, linguistics, science etc.
 * 20) – assessing political articles
 * 21) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
 * 22) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) central west expert
 * 2) Education in Australia
 * 3) – Victoria, law, tertiary education
 * 4) – South Australia, Roads & Rail, Geography
 * 5) – military law
 * 6) – Architecture, Geography, Geology, Law, Animals.
 * 7) – Australian Music and Literature
 * 8) – Environment, transport, politics
 * 9) – Thuringowa city and related pages
 * 10) – anything, I LIV' 'ERE
 * 11) – a little of a lot ... music, maths, linguistics, science etc.
 * 12) – assessing political articles
 * 13) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
 * 14) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) – Australian Music and Literature
 * 2) – Environment, transport, politics
 * 3) – Thuringowa city and related pages
 * 4) – anything, I LIV' 'ERE
 * 5) – a little of a lot ... music, maths, linguistics, science etc.
 * 6) – assessing political articles
 * 7) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
 * 8) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) – anything, I LIV' 'ERE
 * 2) – a little of a lot ... music, maths, linguistics, science etc.
 * 3) – assessing political articles
 * 4) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
 * 5) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) -assessing political, sport, gaming, engineering and Aviation articles
 * 2) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) – Darwin-based.
 * 1) – Darwin-based.

Inactive

 * 1) - Australian places, South Coast
 * 2) – cricket, political history, Canberra
 * 3) – WP:AH
 * 4) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) - Australian places, South Coast
 * 2) – cricket, political history, Canberra
 * 3) – WP:AH
 * 4) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – WP:AH
 * 2) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – WP:AH
 * 2) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – WP:AH
 * 2) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – WP:AH
 * 2) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – WP:AH
 * 2) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – Central Coast articles
 * 1) – Central Coast articles

Example assessments
To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality


 *   – to rate an article at FA-Class
 *   – to rate an article at A-Class
 *   – to rate an article at GA-Class
 *   – to rate an article at B-Class
 *   – to rate an article at Start-Class
 *   – to rate an article at Stub-Class
 *   – to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance


 *   – to rate an article at Top importance
 *   – to rate an article at High importance
 *   – to rate an article at Mid importance
 *   – to rate an article at Low importance

Log

 * Quality operations: A full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days. Due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

Popular pages

 * Popular pages: List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.