Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Assessment

One of the main tasks of WikiProject Wisconsin is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Wisconsin articles by quality. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get an article rated? : You are welcome to rate it yourself. If you are unable to do so for any reason, please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of WikiProject Wisconsin is free to add or change the rating of an article. Editors outside of the project are also welcome to participate, but are asked to respect the consensus of the project in the case of disputes.
 * 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.
 * 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 project's discussion page.

Quality assessments
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

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



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is one of the core topics of Wisconsin. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Wisconsin articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Wisconsin. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Wisconsin articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the Wisconsin field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Wisconsin community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Wisconsin articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Wisconsin field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Wisconsin articles
 * Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Wisconsin 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.

Metro Transit (Madison)

Eau Claire Transit

Assessment log

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