Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Assessment
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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Computing. This project aims to assess articles under the scope of WikiProject Computing and help improving Wikipedia.
Assessment requests[edit]
If you have encountered an article that you believe has been sufficiently improved, please list it here and, if possible, a reviewer will reassess the article and leave comments.
Quality assessment procedures[edit]
- Until an article meets good article criteria and passes good article nomination, it can be reassessed according to the quality criteria to Stub-, Start-, C-, or B-Class. This can be done for improvement or decline, by any editor.
- To promote an article to GA-class, the article must pass review as a good article nominee. To demote an article from GA-class to B-class or below, the article must undergo good article reassessment.
- To promote an article to A-class, the article must undergo review on the talk page.
- To promote an article to FA-class, the article must pass review as a featured article candidate. To demote an article from FA-class, the article must undergo featured article review.
Open requests[edit]
Some articles are of interest for both this project and WikiProject Computer Security. While assessing, please update both projects Quality and Importance, if you can.
- Tapas (website) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) — requested by HenryCrun15 (talk · contribs) 03:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Vector processor (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) requested by lkcl (talk · contribs) have spent some considerable time updating it, correcting some serious *industry-wide* misassertions (yes, really, not "mistakes by other wikipedia editors", actual misleading misassertions by major processor manufacturers). i'm also recommending that the page be upgraded to "Top" or, at a push, "high", because Vector processing is over 60 years old and is the core fundamental basis of all GPUs on the planet and the majority of supercomputers as well. in talk page. Lkcl (talk) 17:09, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
- holy cow! 477 pages link to this one! Lkcl (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
- also having read the critera i would advocate it seems to meet the criteria for a "B" class. i don't think it meets "GA" or "A" criteria. Lkcl (talk) 18:05, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
- I have some concerns with the direction this article has taken. I have started a discussion at Talk:Vector_processor#Discernable_features. ~Kvng (talk) 14:28, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
MacPorts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) — requested by PonyDuck21 I've spent quite a lot of time recently trying to update some of the images and expand on the content. Hopefully it's improved a bit in quality :) Thanks for your help. 17:50, 10 August 2021 (UTC)Rated B class. Nice work. Reducing the number of subheadings and sub-sub headings would be a further improvement. ~Kvng (talk) 14:20, 15 August 2021 (UTC)- That's a very good point, I'll try and do something about that. Thank you very much for your review, it's greatly appreciated. PonyDuck21 (talk) 09:22, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Transcluded requests[edit]
The following list is transcluded from Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security/Assessment#Open requests of the related project Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Security, that recently has created the Assessment department.
You can join that department, if you like, here.
Please, review them and update the transcluded page accordingly.
Recent assessment changes[edit]
How to assess an article[edit]
Anyone can assess a listed article.
- Study the quality guidelines. Carefully determine which class applies.
- Leave comments about your assessment on the talk page.
- Edit the
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parameter on each relevant project banner. - to remove the request.
- Include in the edit summary e.g.:
Assessed [[ArticleName]], changed from Start-class to C-class
Quality[edit]
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. | Microsoft OpenBSD Storm botnet |
FL | The article has attained featured list status. 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. | List of convicted computer criminals List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems |
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. | USB |
GA | The article has attained good article status, having been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
The article meets the good article criteria:
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (but not equaling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | 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. | Alan Turing Epiphany MacBook Python |
B | The article is mostly complete and without major problems but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
The article meets the six B-Class 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. | Endianness |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains much 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; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.
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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. | Byte |
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 usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style compliance non-existent. The article should satisfy fundamental content policies, such as Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Frequently, the referencing is inadequate, although enough sources are usually provided to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.
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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. | File deletion |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Can be well-written, but may also have significant content issues. More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; however, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category. Although Stub-class articles are the lowest class of the normal classes, they are adequate enough to be an accepted article, though they do have risks of being dropped from being an article altogether.
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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. | .dj |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, 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. | List of Java keywords List of computer viruses |
Importance[edit]
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Essential network technology and protocols, major companies and people, and anything that forms the basis of all information | Computer network, Internet Protocol, Cisco |
High | Popular protocols, architectures, or anything that covers a general area of knowledge | Firewall (computing) |
Mid | Core networking components, or anything that fills in more specific information of certain areas | Ethernet physical layer |
Low | Optional add-ons that are not fairly important, or anything that is an obscure piece of trivia | Gibson MaGIC, OmniPeek |
Quality statistics[edit]
The statistics below are from the last time the assessment tool scanned the WikiProject Computing articles. To see the latest results, have the assessment tool update the data, then reload this page.
Computing articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||
FL | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||||
FM | 25 | 25 | |||||
A | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 5 | 14 | 40 | 91 | 18 | 168 | |
B | 66 | 157 | 288 | 378 | 2 | 183 | 1,074 |
C | 78 | 379 | 1,054 | 2,640 | 6 | 1,333 | 5,490 |
Start | 7 | 251 | 1,194 | 7,654 | 70 | 6,355 | 15,531 |
Stub | 7 | 168 | 5,049 | 205 | 7,570 | 12,999 | |
List | 3 | 23 | 121 | 701 | 30 | 392 | 1,270 |
Category | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3,975 | 3,981 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 8 | 89 | 99 | ||
File | 25 | 3,368 | 3,393 | ||||
Portal | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
Project | 102 | 102 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 13 | 83 | 3,770 | 1 | 3,868 | |
Template | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1,877 | 1,894 | ||
NA | 2 | 1 | 71 | 74 | |||
Draft | 6 | 3 | 787 | 796 | |||
Assessed | 160 | 838 | 2,900 | 16,660 | 14,380 | 15,852 | 50,790 |
Unassessed | 4 | 6,644 | 6,648 | ||||
Total | 160 | 838 | 2,900 | 16,664 | 14,380 | 22,496 | 57,438 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 181,374 | Ω = 5.14 |
Project participants interested in assessment[edit]
- -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 15:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
- Phillip A (talk)
- SOL Basic 00:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
- -- Logical Premise Ergo? 13:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
- Message From Xenu (talk · contribs)
- Josemanimala (talk · contribs)
- Some Old Man (talk) 11:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
- C21Ktalk 14:35, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Daydreamer302000 (talk · contribs) 14:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- decltype (talk · contribs) 11:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
- Andy Chat c 22:48, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
- --Michaelkourlas (talk) 22:05, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
- Airplaneman (talk · contribs) 7:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 14:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- § Music Sorter § (talk) 06:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
- Kvng (talk · contribs) --Kvng (talk) 21:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
- Nullw0rm (Talk? - Contribs?) 18:45, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- Dexp (talk) 13:58, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- --Pastore Italy (talk) 17:37, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
- Pnm (talk) 18:18, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- Jamesrules90 (talk) 17:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- – ebraminiotalk 17:32, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Enfcer (talk) 00:40, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ankit Maity (talk) 06:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- --Ourhistory153 (talk) 14:56, 11 November 2011 (UTC) Cloud_computing
- Bardi1100 (talk)
- Diego (talk) 09:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- -- Trevj (talk) 10:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
- Simon Bramfitt talk
- Enrique Villar 13:00, 25 January 2015 (UTC) (St. Paul's Fall)
- Seba5tien (talk/contribs) 08:10, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
- MBlairMartin (talk) 22:27, 14 September 2016
- Jamesp88 (talk | contribs) 17:50, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- OvalCheese (talk) 00:35, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- Lkcl (talk) 11:20, 8 June 2021 (UTC)