Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Australia/Assessment

WikiProject Education in Australia

Assessment Department:

Welcome to the Assessment Department of WikiProject Education in Australia! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's EiA 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 recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. You can request an assessment of an article within EiA's scope here.

Goals

Maintain 100% of EiA articles assessed for importance
Maintain 100% of EiA articles assessed for quality
Continually update article quality assessments

Assessment Table

Education in Australia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
GA			2	6			8
B	1	16	28	135			180
C	10	16	45	390		1	462
Start	5	21	56	1,514			1,596
Stub		1	25	1,043			1,069
List	1	13	5	116		1	136
Category				2	912		914
Disambig					1		1
File					2		2
Project					2		2
Redirect		1	2	141	112		256
Template				2	105		107
Other				1	1		2
Assessed	17	68	163	3,351	1,135	2	4,736
Total	17	68	163	3,351	1,135	2	4,736
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,798			Ω = 5.07

How to assess an article

To assess an article, simply add {{WP Australia|edu=yes|class=(your rating here)|edu-importance=(your importance here)}} where (your rating here) is the rating you give the article.

Any Wikipedian may generally rate an article Stub, Start, B and A-class. However, to be considered a Good Article or Featured Article the articles must go through the relevant processes, Good article nominations and Featured article candidates.

To give an WP:EIA importance rating, put either 'low', 'mid', 'high', top where it says (your response here). To rate an article, replace (your rating here) in the example above with either Stub, Start, B, GA, A or FA. The criteria for quality assessments are listed below.

Assessment Criteria

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further additions are necessary unless new published information has come to light, but further improvements to the text are often possible.	Tourette Syndrome (as of July 2007)
A {{A-Class}}	Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points.	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise acceptable. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class.	Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job.	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (as of November 2007)
B {{B-Class}}	Commonly the highest article grade that is assigned outside a more formal review process. Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article. Nonetheless, it has some gaps or missing elements or references, needs editing for language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles.	Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.	Guildford Grammar School (as of November 2007)
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: a particularly useful picture or graphic multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded.	Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage.	Central Coast Adventist School (as of November 2007)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Abbotsford Public School (as of November 2007)

Request an assessment

Generally, any Wikipedian may rate any article Stub or Start class. However, it is important to get another editor to rate an article any grade higher than Start-class. To request an assessment, please list the article at Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Australia/Assessment/Requests.