Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team aims to work toward a set of articles suitable for release in print, CD, DVD, or some combination. To that end, Wikipedia articles areassessed by categorizing their talk pages by quality and importance. Abot visits those categories every three days and collects the articles present there into lists; see theindex.

This page describes the output of the bot, as well as how to set up the categories for a given subject (for example, chemistry, military history, music, etc.), for the bot to visit them and collect the information into lists.

The following are generated automatically by the bot every 3 days or so:

• [[Foobar articles by quality]] – an article list similar to aworklist, organised byassessment then by importance, then alphabetically (example). It includes a link to both the current version of the article and the version found on the day of the last assessment change. A table listing 500 articles is around 100 kB, so for large projects, the table may be automatically split into subpages, as is done atMilitary history. It may also show the comments left for that article, if your Project banner is set up to do this.
• Statistical summary – shows how many {{FA-Class}}, how many {{A-Class}}, and similar articles are assessed for a project (example). This summary can be conveniently "pasted" into a project page, as is done atVersion 0.5.
• Log – this records all changes since the last run. Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold (example). The maximum size of the log file is approximately 100,000 bytes. Daily changes will be appended to the log until it reaches 100k, at which point the oldest entries will be overwritten. If the current run will be larger than 100k, it will split the update into multiple parts, and the next day's log will start from scratch. All updates will still be available through the History tab.

First, verify that you have a WikiProject as described atWikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals.

If your WikiProject is interested in using the bot to generate the above information, you need to do the following:

1. Create a "by quality" category named after the subject area (Foobar), such asCategory:Foobar articles by quality. This should have subcategories such asCategory:A-Class Foobar articles,Category:B-Class Foobar articles, etc. (example). Usually these have a hyphen, and a capital C in Class. Place the mainCategory:Foobar articles by quality inCategory:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments for the bot to detect it. The categories described above can be created with the help ofthis page orwith AWB using a supplied plugin.
   • Optionally, articles may also be rated byimportance, sometimes calledpriority. In order for the bot to collect the importance assessments, a new "by importance" category is needed, with subcategories for "Top-importance", "High-importance", etc. (example). For historical reasons, the word "importance" must be lowercase. Place the "by importance" category inCategory:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments.
2. Create or adapt aproject template similar to one used byWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team,{{WP1.0}}. An easy way to do this is by using{{WPBannerMeta}}. For more complex work, have a look at the templates used by theMilitary History project,{{WPMILHIST}}, and theBeatles WikiProject,{{WikiProject Beatles}}. For a sample code of how to detect comments subpages, seeBiography WikiProject's template,{{WikiProject Biography}}.
3. Tag a few article talk pages using the template, and include appropriate assessments and a sample comment (if you're using this feature). Before browsing away from the articles' talk pages, though, double-check that appropriate categories appear on the talk page. These taggings will provide some test data, so you can check that everything is working.
4. Wait until the bot does its daily run, or visitthis web form and run "Manual update" right away. You should see a new row for your project in the table in the mainindex. The bot will also generate the other output automatically; after it does, check that the tagged talk pages have appeared as expected before assessing the rest of your project's pages.

Once the bot is working, to build the list of articles in a project you simply add information to the article talk pages. On each article talk page you add the project template. Optionally, you include thequality assessment. Check the log periodically to check that no one is vandalizing your work. Hopefully you now have a useful collection of data for your project!

If you have any problems, pleasecontact us.

• Template:Articles by Quality and Importance

• Wikipedia 1.0 assessments
• WikiProject resources