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Article rating and assessment scheme[edit]

WP:HAWAII article rating and assessment scheme
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An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for Hawaii-related articles, which is monitored and maintained by WikiProject Hawaii. In this scheme, all Hawaii-related articles ('article' here also includes lists) may be assigned a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their class (overall quality).

The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide editors with a sub-categorised survey of the current status of Hawaii-related articles, which can then be used to prioritise the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.

For example, lower-quality articles in need of most work can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.

There will be a number of secondary benefits from the scheme, such as being able to track which kinds and topics of articles are 'neglected'.

This assessment and rating scheme follows the precepts adopted by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for details.

The class ratings are recorded by setting appropriate values to the parameters of the main WP:HAWAII Project banner, {{WikiProject Hawaii}} which are placed on the corresponding talk pages of articles about Hawaii or other closely related topics. See the template instructions for details on these and other parameters which can be set.

See the Quality scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by class/quality.

The assessments of class are assigned manually by WP:HAWAII project members (or other interested parties)– see the Rating instructions for details. Assigning a rating will automatically place the article in an appropriate rating category.

Once assigned, behind the scenes a bot (Mathbot (talk · contribs)) runs periodically (scheduled daily, about 0300hrs UTC) which compiles a variety of statistics and log data, which can then later be analysed.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed (indicated by changing the parameter value).

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage of Hawaii-related content.


Instructions[edit]

An article's assessment is recorded via the use of certain parameters of the {{WikiProject Hawaii}} project banner, which is affixed to the talk pages of in-scope articles. Note that there are some other (optional) parameters to the project banners as well, see Template:WikiProject Hawaii/doc for a full description.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Hawaii}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Hawaii|class=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Quality scale for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Hawaii articles) Featured article FA 
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Hawaii articles) A-Class article A 
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Hawaii articles)  GA 
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Hawaii articles) B-Class article B 
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Hawaii articles) C-Class article C 
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Hawaii articles) Start-Class article Start 
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Hawaii articles) Stub-Class article Stub 
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Hawaii articles) Featured list FL 
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Hawaii articles)  List 
Future (for articles about future events; adds articles to Category:Future-Class Hawaii articles)  Future 

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

Book (for Wikipedia books; adds pages to Category:Book-Class Hawaii articles) Wikipedia Book Book 
Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Hawaii articles) Category page Category 
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Hawaii articles) Disambiguation page Disambig 
File (for files; adds pages to Category:File-Class Hawaii articles)  File 
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Hawaii articles) Redirect page Redirect 
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Hawaii articles)  Portal 
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Hawaii articles)  Project 
Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Hawaii articles)  Template 
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Hawaii articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Hawaii articles)  ??? 

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

{{WikiProject Hawaii|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project:

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

The importance parameter should be assigned according to the importance scale below.

The general workflow is as follows:

  1. Locate an in-scope Hawaii-related article (or list), add the {{WikiProject Hawaii}} project banner to its talk page if it is not already there. (Note this also applies to new articles you may create, ie you can add the banner and the rating as you go).
  2. If currently unassessed (or when adding the project banner anew), determine what its class assessment rating should be, using your judgement and the criteria given here. Try to be as frank as possible in the assessment: the aim here is to appropriately identify articles needing later improvement and there's nothing to be gained by "over-ranking" them.
  3. Add the selected parameter values to the project banner template call, per the specified syntax. Once previewed/saved, you should see the values updated in the banner and the appropriate categories assigned.
  4. If in doubt as to the appropriate class level, you can either leave the value unassigned for now (ie omit the parameters), and/or consult with another project member to decide.
  5. If the article already has a rating, but you disagree or the article has subsequently been edited by you or someone else so that its overall quality has changed (hopefully for the better!), then you can update the parameter yourself to reflect its new status.
  6. Since we may (naturally enough) not be the most objective assessors of one's own work, it might be an idea in these or other unclear cases to invite another party to give the assessment. This can be done by adding the parameter/value combination |reassess=yes to the project banner, which will automatically assign the article in question to Category:Hawaii articles needing reassessment. You can also request reassessments/second opinions at the main discussion forum.
  7. On an ongoing basis, you can patrol the various x-class categories for improvement opportunities, and also the unassessed cats for new assessments.

Quality scale[edit]

WikiProject article quality grading scheme

Importance scale[edit]

WikiProject article importance scheme

Comments[edit]

If you have more extensive comments, you can follow the link displayed in the {{Hawaii}} template to reach the "ratings summary page". This allows you to place open-ended comments in a separate file to be picked up by the same mechanism. Because this is an automated process, there is a strict rule for the naming of this file. For example, comments about an article called Hula go in Talk:Hula/Comments. It may sometimes be useful to link to that comments page from Talk:Hula.

Workgroup-level assessments[edit]

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands[edit]

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands task force

Contact with WP Hawaii
Article Import Date Assess Ver Comments
Laysan Duck [1] High October 28, 2007 B A very detailed article, could be a GA soon, but more needs to be added about its survival through Laysan's rabbit outbreak. (edit comment)
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument [2] Top March 21, 2008 B A B-class article. Could use a good list of the major species of animals and plants in the monument, especially the ones found nowhere else. Also necessary is a brief overview of the islands in the monument, with a focus on ecology. Nothing too in-depth, leave that for NWHI. This article's focus is the monument, whereas the other article's focus is the islands themselves. Information is also needed on how to access the monument, who can access, etc. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Passed GA by Vird a while ago; nice job! (edit comment)
French Frigate Shoals [3] Top March 21, 2008 Start This could be a very expansive article, so I'm keeping it's current status at "Start" class. Ecology section is good, but the history section could be more comprehensive. Info about each of the individual islands in the reef is needed. The section on the airport could be alot bigger to include its history and current status, and stuff about the LORAN station on Tern Island needs to be added. Needs more than just one sentence about La Perouse Pinnacle. If there were any shipwrecks throughout the years here that are not mentioned already, they need to be added. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Kure Atoll [4] High March 21, 2008 Start Needs elaboration in the Geological History Section. There were quite a few shipwrecks here throughout the years, detailed information on all of them should be inserted. An Ecology section needs to be made, which should have the "plastic toys killing birds" bits in it, along with any other relevant info. A picture of the garbage that washes up on the beaches would be nice. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Laysan [5] Top March 23, 2008 B Well, I did all that I listed, so B-Class finally! Not sure what else to add, but I'll be back with more specificity and to improve the cohesiveness of the prose. (edit comment)
Laysan Finch [6] Mid March 21, 2008 B Needs info on population, and distribution information that is as specific as possible. Needs info on the bird's "song" or call, and if information is available, the bird's conservation status over the years and how it has changed, and which efforts are being made to preserve it still. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Laysan Millerbird [7] High May 30, 2007 Start The section on extinction is very detailed, but the intro paragraph needs to be expanded into sections on range, behavior, description, etc. SeanMD80talk | contribs (edit comment)
Lisianski Island [8] Top Marh 21, 2008 Start Needs to be divided into sections. We can go much more in-depth about the islands discovery and the subsequent voyages to it by explorers afterwards. Also, in the history section we can add info about the rabbits that were introduced here from Laysan, and the Japanese bird poachers that came here circa 1904. Also an ecology section needs to be added, with all the relevant bird species that nest here and the like. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Midway Atoll [9] Top March 21, 2008 B 0.5 B-class article approaching Good-article status (I would think). Geology and WWII/pre-WWII history is great. I would like to see, however, more history from WWII to the present. What is life like now, to the few who still live and work here? Give more details about the eco-tourism thing initaited recently. Also crucially important is an ecology section, which this article doesn't have, despite Midway being one of the key breeding grounds for many seabirds, including the Laysan Albatross, of which millions flock each year to hatch and raise their young. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Necker Island [10] Top May 28, 2007 Start Needs a detailed account of its discovery by Europeans, and all exploratory voyages thereafter, including the Tanager Expedition. An ecology section needs to be created with all relevant species of plants and animals here. Also, much more needs to be said about the stone structures on the island. Needs a section on geography/geology, as well. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Nihoa [11] Top March 2, 2007 Start *Add inline refs. —Viriditas | Talk 12:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • The geology section needs to be clearer if not a bit larger, and tied in with a map. The Prehistoric Human Habitation section needs to be alot larger to include as much info that can be found. Early Exploration section needs to be more in-depth concerning the voyages made to it, and should include excerpts from the ships' logs if possible. SeanMD80talk | contribs 17:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Nihoa Finch [12] Mid June 1, 2007 Start This needs to be made to a parallel structure and quality to Laysan Finch, with a description section, a range and behavior section, and a conservation section. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [13] Top December 10, 2006 B Added islands section, so B-class. Not sure what should be added now. (edit comment)
Pearl and Hermes Atoll [14] Top June 1, 2007 Start First of all, separate into sections: Intro, then history, then ecology. History needs to include discovery, all subsequent explorations and/or shipwrecks, exploitation by pearl fishers, and subsequent conservation attempts. Ecology section should include all relevant species that live here. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:20, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Amaranthus brownii [15] High March 22, 2007 B It's not like there exists a ton of information or documentation about this plant, so anything that can be found is useful. Needs a section on description, and a section on its range. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:36, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

In progress... —Viriditas | Talk 00:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Sections have been added, but working on expansion... —Viriditas | Talk 05:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Many links to images both on and offline, but all are copyrighted. —Viriditas | Talk 08:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Needs more images and expansion to GA. Source origin of name. —Viriditas | Talk 09:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Status: Images added. Expansion to GA in progress. Viriditas (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Needs larger lead section. Viriditas (talk) 15:20, 3 September 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Gardner Pinnacles [16] Mid May 16, 2007 Stub Needs to be broken up into sections. One section with info on geography/geology, one section for history (though by nature not as prolific as some of the other NWHI), on for ecology. SeanMD80talk | contribs 02:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Maro Reef [17] Mid December 13, 2006 Stub Of all the NWHI, Maro Reef is the most looked-over and ignored in terms of sources and documentation, so we have to take what we can get. Ostensibly should have a history, geology, and ecology section just like the others, but its a coral reef, not really an island. If need be, geology and ecology sections will be one. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:05, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Nihoa Carnation [18] Mid June 1, 2007 Stub
Nihoa Conehead Katydid [19] Mid June 1, 2007 Stub
Nihoa Millerbird [20] High May 30, 2007 Stub Needs to be expanded to the quality and structure of Laysan Finch. As such, needs a description, range and behavior, and conservation sections. SeanMD80talk | contribs 03:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Nihoa trapdoor spider [21] Mid June 1, 2007 Stub
Pritchardia remota [22] Mid June 1, 2007 Stub Status: Expansion in progress...Viriditas | Talk 09:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC) (edit comment)
Thaumatogryllus conanti [23] Mid June 4, 2007 Stub
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