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= GA
 |importance= high
}}

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)

Quality scale

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Computer science}} 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 science articles category)	FA
FL	(for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Computer science articles category)	FL
A	(for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Computer science articles category)	A
GA	(for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Computer science articles category)	GA
B	(for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Computer science articles category)	B
C	(for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Computer science articles category)	C
Start	(for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Computer science articles category)	Start
Stub	(for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Computer science articles category)	Stub
List	(for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Computer science articles category)	List
NA	(for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Computer science pages category)	NA
???	(articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Computer science articles category)	???

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

FM	(for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Computer science pages category)	FM
Category	(for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Computer science pages category)	Category
Draft	(for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Computer science pages category)	Draft
File	(for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Computer science pages category)	File
Portal	(for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Computer science pages category)	Portal
Project	(for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Computer science pages category)	Project
Template	(for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Computer science 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 science pages category)		Disambig
Redirect	(for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Computer science pages category)		Redirect

Note: You should not assign any article FA, FL, or GA 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).

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_Computer_science_articles.

Assessment Statistics

Computer science articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	2	1				4
FL	1						1
FM					21		21
GA	3	9	16	25			53
B	39	104	91	85		53	372
C	73	286	482	889		345	2,075
Start	15	203	609	1,679		1,408	3,914
Stub		20	94	687		644	1,445
List	1	17	13	64		24	119
Category					1,236		1,236
Disambig					28		28
File					21		21
Portal					1		1
Project					31		31
Redirect		4	18	65	311		398
Template					143		143
NA					5		5
Other					220		220
Assessed	133	645	1,324	3,494	2,017	2,474	10,087
Unassessed				23		835	858
Total	133	645	1,324	3,517	2,017	3,309	10,945
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 37,791			Ω = 4.80

Assessment Team

Former members