Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Assessment
Welcome to the Assessment Department of the Computer Science WikiProject. The goal of this project is to assess articles related to Computer science and to provide editors with guidance on how to improve existing articles.
If you would like to participate, feel free to sign up on the Computer Science WikiProject participants list.
Instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Computer science}} project banner ({{WPCompSci}} for short) on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Computer science |class= |importance= }}
Process
- Become familiar with the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and this importance scale
- Review some of the existing assessments to get some idea of relative scale for this project
- Then for each review:
- Tag an article related to computer science (or look at a tagged article)
- Read the article and analyze it
- Place your assessment in the {{WPCompSci}} or {{WikiProject Computer science}} banner on the articles talk page (According to the scales below)
- Write a short summary ad post it on the talk page and in the Assessment Summaries section below
- Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Quality scale
Computer Science articles are graded for quality according to the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale.
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Start |
Stub |
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The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Computer science articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Computer science articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Computer science articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Computer science articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Computer science articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Computer science articles)
If left blank, the article will default as Category:Unassessed Computer science articles.
Note: You should not assign any article GA or FA grades arbitrarily. These grades must pass through official Wikipedia channels and undergo a Peer Review process.
Importance scale
Computer Science articles are rated on this importance scale. Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the topic falls under. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).
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High |
Mid |
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The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Computer science articles
- High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Computer science articles
- Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Computer science articles
- Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Computer science articles
- If left blank, the article will default as Category:Unassessed-importance Computer science articles
Assessment Statistics
Computer science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
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1 | 1 | |||||
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21 | 21 | |||||
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3 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 53 | ||
B | 39 | 102 | 91 | 87 | 52 | 371 | |
C | 73 | 288 | 485 | 895 | 348 | 2,089 | |
Start | 15 | 203 | 610 | 1,684 | 1,414 | 3,926 | |
Stub | 20 | 94 | 686 | 643 | 1,443 | ||
List | 1 | 17 | 13 | 64 | 1 | 24 | 120 |
Category | 1,241 | 1,241 | |||||
Disambig | 28 | 28 | |||||
File | 21 | 21 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 31 | 31 | |||||
Redirect | 4 | 18 | 67 | 311 | 400 | ||
Template | 143 | 143 | |||||
NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
Other | 1 | 224 | 225 | ||||
Assessed | 133 | 645 | 1,328 | 3,509 | 2,026 | 2,481 | 10,122 |
Unassessed | 21 | 831 | 852 | ||||
Total | 133 | 645 | 1,328 | 3,530 | 2,026 | 3,312 | 10,974 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 37,867 | Ω = 4.80 |
Assessment Requests
If you would like to have an article reviewed, simply place a link to the page in the list below. If substantial changes are made to a previously rated article feel free to place it below for reassessment. If you have assessed an article from the list below, please place a short summary under Assessment Summaries and strike the link from the list with <s>strike through tags</s> so that other editors do not do redundant work.
Assessment Summaries
April 2007
- ANDOS (Stub / Low) Some rudimentary information with good pictures. All unreferenced and could use significant expansion. Adam McCormick 06:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Memory address (Start / Mid) An important concept that should be improved to make it more accessible. Needs references, diagrams, and to be wikified. Adam McCormick 06:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actor model (Start / Mid) This article uses a lot of jargon and is extremely large for a single article. It needs to be made more accessible to the average reader with diagrams and genralized information to balance the specifics. Adam McCormick 07:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Aggregator (Start / Mid) Fairly prevalent type of software. Needs significant expansion and referencing, could also use some reorganization. Adam McCormick 07:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Algorithm (GA / Top) Fundamental concept in CS. Needs to be wikified and more references should be made inline. Perhaps some of the information should be split into subpages as the article is fairly long. Adam McCormick 07:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Alphabet (computer science) (Stub / Mid) Fairly central CS topic, needs significant expansion including information of applicability, usage, importance, etc... Has no references. Adam McCormick 07:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Almost complete (Stub / Low) One unreferenced sentence, not really worthy of an article, should be mentioned in Complete (complexity) if at all. Adam McCormick 07:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Agile testing (Stub / Low) One unreferenced sentence. Should be merged with Software testing. Adam McCormick 07:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Alloy Analyzer (Stub / Low) Some good information with a reference, but there isn't enough here to justify more than a stub rating. Screenshots might be nice. Adam McCormick 07:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Donald Knuth (Start / Top) One of the fathers of Modern CS. Debatably THE most important person article in the CS project (it's either Don Knuth or Allen Turing) Adam McCormick 07:48, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Assessment Team
An alphabetical list of those of us who assess articles for the project (For individual contributions see above)