Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Sri Lanka WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Sri Lanka or the people of Sri Lanka. 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 recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Sri Lanka project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Sri Lanka articles by quality and Category:Sri Lanka articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. For an up to date list of all articles with in this project see.

Frequently asked questions

 * 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 Sri Lanka WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
 * 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, 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!

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 WikiProject Sri Lanka project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Sri Lanka articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Sri Lanka pages)

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

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 Sri Lanka.

''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.''

Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Sri Lanka project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Sri Lanka as listed in Sri Lanka topics. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Sri Lanka articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Sri Lanka. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Sri Lanka articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Sri Lanka community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Sri Lanka articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the field of Sri Lanka studies and is not generally common knowledge outside that community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Sri Lanka articles

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

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.


 * Asha de Vos - this article has been further expanded since it was classed as a stub and I believe it should now be rated as start-class or C-class. Delphine Dallison (talk) 19:46, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ocean University of Sri Lanka I have improved this article from stub level. Please make it higher. Thank you. 49lk (talk) 12:30, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Sri Lanka Police I think this article is deserving of a higher quality class than start, could someone please look into it. Thank you. JMLCarvalho (talk) 12:59, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Lakshman Samaranayake - I have created this biography of Prof Lakshman Samaranayake. I would like the page to be assessed. 16:17, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Chola Empire - Added This to the Wikiproject. Please Assess.

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

The log is not directly transcluded here due to the large size of it. Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.


 * WikiProject Sri Lanka Assessment log

Worklist

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.