Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes/Assessment
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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Volcanoes! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about volcanoes, volcanology, igneous petrology, and related subjects. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment 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 Volcanoes}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality and Category:WikiProject Volcanoes articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Statistics
[edit]| WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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6 | 17 | 26 | 13 | 62 | ||
| FL
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3 | 3 | |||||
| FM
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56 | 56 | |||||
 GA
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10 | 34 | 90 | 51 | 185 | ||
| B | 26 | 39 | 102 | 65 | 1 | 233 | |
| C | 20 | 73 | 191 | 183 | 467 | ||
| Start | 16 | 167 | 612 | 900 | 1,695 | ||
| Stub | 30 | 442 | 1,598 | 2,070 | |||
| List | 10 | 47 | 73 | 9 | 139 | ||
| Category | 1,237 | 1,237 | |||||
| Disambig | 12 | 12 | |||||
| File | 44 | 44 | |||||
| Portal | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Project | 28 | 28 | |||||
| Redirect | 3 | 26 | 114 | 267 | 410 | ||
| Template | 57 | 57 | |||||
| NA | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Other | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 78 | 376 | 1,536 | 2,997 | 1,726 | 1 | 6,714 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 78 | 376 | 1,536 | 2,997 | 1,726 | 2 | 6,715 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 23,832 | Ω = 5.06 | |||||
Frequently asked questions
[edit]- How can I get my article rated?
- Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
- Who can assess articles?
- Any member of WikiProject Volcanoes 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 somewhat subjective, 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.
See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
Instructions
[edit]An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Volcanoes}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Volcanoes|class= |importance= }}
Class
[edit]An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Volcanoes}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Importance
[edit]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Volcanoes}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Volcanoes|importance=???}}
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance WikiProject Volcanoes articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
[edit]This table is transcluded here, and is identical to the one at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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| FA |
The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Mauna Loa |
| FL |
The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of largest volcanic eruptions |
| A |
The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
| GA |
The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Lake Toba |
| B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Otago Peninsula |
| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Deception Island |
| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Volcano Number |
| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Volcanic field |
| List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | Lists of volcanoes |
| Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Volcanoes |
| Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | Underwater volcano |
| File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Volcano.svg |
| Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | Portal:Volcanoes |
| Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes |
| Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:WikiProject Volcanoes |
Importance scale
[edit]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 volcanologists and others working within the field.
| Importance | Criteria | Example |
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| Top | The article is about one of the core topics in volcanology, or an extremely important and famed volcano. Includes volcanoes of great historical importance, or eruptions with the most devastating consequences. Probably most Decade Volcanoes should be in this category, with a few rated "high" instead. The most important types of volcanoes should be here, as we need to develop good articles about them. The most important igneous rocks should be in this category. | Volcano |
| High | The article is about a very important topic in volcanology, or a very important and noted volcano. Any volcano with eruptions that have killed numerous people or produced large-scale environmental consequences (i.e. most VEI 6+ eruptions) should be no lower than this level. Moderately-important types of volcanoes should be here. Somewhat important or interesting igneous rocks should go here. Articles about people or places notable for their association with a volcano or eruption should be placed no higher than this category. Biographies of the most important volcanologists, those who made crucial advances to the field, should probably be rated here. | Volcanic gas |
| Mid | The article is about a fairly important topic in volcanology, or a moderately important and notable volcano. Any volcanoes which are very active (or among the most active in their region) should also be rated no lower than this. Most articles in Category:Volcanologists should probably be here, as most of those who would rate "low" importance do not actually have biography articles yet. Less important igneous rocks should go here. Articles about most volcanic protected areas (such as national parks) should go here. Most extraterrestrial volcanoes should probably be rated no lower than this, since only the most important of them even have Wikipedia articles. Many of the very high, but obscure, 6000+ m volcanoes in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina should probably be here instead of "low", simply because their elevation puts them among the highest volcanoes on earth. | Basanite |
| Low | The article is about a highly specific or minor topic in volcanology, or a somewhat obscure and generally unknown volcano. Many of the volcanoes in this category would be unfamiliar even to those with a broad knowledge of volcanology and of worldwide volcanoes. Obscure igneous rocks fall into here. Articles where the volcanic component is but a minor part (such as some articles about islands of volcanic origin, etc.) should also be in this category, since they are of low importance to this WikiProject. A few of the current articles in Category:Volcanologists definitely belong here. | Aegina |
| NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Volcanoes |
| ??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. | ??? |
Assessment log
[edit]- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality log
Articles in need of expansion and cleanup
[edit]Now that initial assessments have been completed, the most crtitical articles to attend to are those marked with "Top" importance, but only "Start" class (there are no "Stub"s in this category at this time). The most important such article is Volcanology, which is one of the two flagship articles of this WikiProject (along with Volcano) and is sorely in need of comprehensive expansion.
In the "High" importance category, over 20% of the articles are only "Stub" class and another 60% are "Start" class, so these also require attention and expansion.
In general, "B" class articles which are "Mid" importance or higher should be polished up and nominated as good articles.
The easiest way to find articles which fall within a particular intersection of quality and importance categories is to use the Worklist below, which is transcluded from Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality.
See also
[edit]- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality statistics
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality log
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes/Assessment/Log complete for the complete log on a single page, with all dates unlinked so that it can be used as a global watchlist for WikiProject Volcanoes via Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes/Assessment/Log complete.
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ