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The assessment department of WikiProject Computer networking focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Computer networking-related 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.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Computer networking}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Computer networking articles by quality and Category:Computer networking articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (Index · Statistics · Log).

Frequently asked questions

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 Computer networking is free to add or change the rating of an article.
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 discussion page for this department.

Instructions

Quality assessment

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Computer networking}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class Computer networking articles category)  FA
FL (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Computer networking articles category)  FL
A (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Computer networking articles category)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Computer networking articles category)  GA
B (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Computer networking articles category) B
C (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Computer networking articles category) C
Start (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Computer networking articles category) Start
Stub (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Computer networking articles category) Stub
List (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Computer networking articles category) List
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Computer networking pages category) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Computer networking articles category) ???

For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:

Category (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Computer networking pages category) Category
Draft (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Computer networking pages category) Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Computer networking pages category) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Computer networking pages category) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Computer networking pages category) Project
Template (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Computer networking pages category) Template

The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:

Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class Computer networking pages category) Disambig
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Computer networking pages category) Redirect

Quality scale

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Computer networking}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Computer networking|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 Computer networking articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Computer networking articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Computer networking articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Computer networking articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Computer networking articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Computer networking articles)  ??? 

Importance scale

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.

Statistics


Log

The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available; due to its size, it cannot be transcluded directly.