Wikipedia:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force/Assessment

One of the main tasks of the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's SFBA articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:San Francisco Bay Area articles by quality. WP:1.0 then produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed, reassessed, and renamed. (a log showing older assessments exists here).

How to assess
An article's assessment is generated on its talkpage from the class parameter in WikiProject California, the WikiProject's banner. To add the banner, add the following to its talkpage:


 * , thus the exact text being added is ""

To add an assessment, simply fill in the class parameter with the appropriate letters. The following values may be used:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles)
 * FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured lists)
 * FM (adds files to Category:FM-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles; should only be used for files that are currently listed as featured media)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles; THIS ASSESSMENT IS NO LONGER IN USE AT THIS PROJECT
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles)
 * List (adds articles to Category:List-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles)
 * Category (adds articles to Category:Category-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale
 * Disambig (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale. This is ONLY for disambiguation pages whose elements are ALL in the SFBA
 * File (adds articles to Category:File-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); (not for use on non-free images), non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale
 * Portal (adds articles to Category:Portal-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale
 * Project (adds articles to Category:Project-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale
 * Redirect (adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale. Please add to any meaningful redirects (such as primary schools to school districts), not to simple naming variants
 * Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); non-article pages, which don't require a rating on the quality scale
 * DO NOT USE: NA (adds pages to the unused Category:NA-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles); this assessment is made automatically for all pages assessed as non-article (as listed above), adding them to Category:NA-importance San Francisco Bay Area articles, and thus should not be added manually as a Class assessment'''


 * Articles for which a valid class is not provided ("Class=    ") are listed in Category:Unassessed San Francisco Bay Area articles. This category should ideally be empty at all times


 * User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/San Francisco Bay Area, direct link to assessment table

Quality scale
WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

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 hagiography. Importance does not equate to quality; a featured article could rate 'mid' on importance. Note also that in cases where an article is covered by other WikiProjects in addition to than this one, the importance rating for that article may be different for this project than it is for the other projects. Importance is only part of several factors used to determine inclusion in release versions of Wikipedia content, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/SelectionBot for more information on how articles are scored for inclusion.

'''The criteria and examples given for the San Francisco Bay Area task force importance scale are works in progress. Please make modifications or add examples as needed, or discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area'''


 * NA: this importance grade is made automatically for all pages assessed as non-article (Categories, Templates, etc. as listed in the Assessment section above), adding them to Category:NA-importance San Francisco Bay Area articles. This is a valid importance grade, not to be confused with the unused Category:NA-Class San Francisco Bay Area articles'''


 * ??? (adds pages to Category:Unknown-importance San Francisco Bay Area articles); this is automatically assigned to any article whose importance is not graded. Ideally, this category should always be empty. Most Wikiprojects have a large number in this category. Our is currently empty! lets keep it that way!