Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland/Scottish Gaelic task force/Assessment

Quality: FA-Class | A Class | GA-Class | B-Class | C-Class| Start-Class | Stub Class | Unassessed Importance: Top | High | Mid | Low | Unknown

Welcome to the assessment department of the Scottish Gaelic task force. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Scottish Gaelic-related articles. 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.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WP Scotland project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Scottish Gaelic articles by quality and Category:Scottish Gaelic articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How do I add an article to the task force? : Just add to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
 * How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the task force, or WikiProject Scotland 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.
 * 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.

Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the WP Scotland project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * [[Image:Featured article star.png|16px]]FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|14px]] GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Scottish Gaelic pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Scottish Gaelic articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Scottish Gaelic articles)
 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Scottish Gaelic articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

Importance scale
Importance markers should be used as regards WikiProject Scotland, not just this task force. For example, Scottish Gaelic is of top important to this task force, but of High or Mid importance to WP Scotland as a whole, and should not be marked as top.

Article importance standards
Article importance standards are still to be decided for this task force.

Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

Requested

Completed

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