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Theassessment department ofWikiProject Germany focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Germany. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in theWP:1.0 program.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the{{WikiProject Germany}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories ofCategory:Germany articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for anautomatically generated worklist.
The assessment system used by WikiProject Germany is fairly orthodox, with two scales. The first evaluatesarticles, while the other assesseslists. The progression of these articles through this system is described further in the figure below.
| Class | Criteria | Assessment process | Example | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 FA | The article meetsall thefeatured article criteria.
| SMS Kaiser (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
| FL | The list meetsall thefeatured list criteria.
| List of German World War II jet aces (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
 A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from this WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. | German cruiser Prinz Eugen (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
 GA | The article meetsall of thegood article criteria.
| Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg) (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
| B | The article meetsall of theB-Class criteria.
| Battle of Halle (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
| C | The article meetsB1 or B2 as well asB3 and B4 and B5 of theB-Class criteria.
| Munich (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
| Start | The article meets the Start-Class criteria.
| 7.62mm UKM (as of 20 April 2017) | |||
| Stub | The article meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Ernst Bach (as of 20 April 2017) |
Except for books and a few vital project-related pages, most non-article classes don't need a specific importance parameter.
An article's importance assessment is generated from theimportance parameter in the{{WikiProject Germany}} project banner on its talk page:
| Top |
| High |
| Mid |
| Low |
| ??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
| Label | Criteria | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Top | Core topics about Germany. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the mainGermany article, vital for the understanding of Germany or extremely notable to people outside of Germany. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two Germans in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance | Economy of Germany,Konrad Adenauer,Hamburg,Johann Sebastian Bach,Cologne Cathedral |
| High | Topics that are very notable within Germany, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. This includes cities with a population of more than 100,000 | Erfurt,Bertolt Brecht,Federal Court of Justice of Germany,Heinrich Brüning |
| Mid | Topics that are reasonably notable on a national level within Germany without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally, including smaller towns | Wolfgang Borchert,Lindau,Elisabeth Church (Marburg),Luise Kahler |
| Low | Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Germany | Forest swastika,Ostkreuz,Deutschhaus Mainz,Werner Teske,German 100th Light Infantry Division |
WikiProject pertains to the people, places, history, and culture of Germany, and cities, towns, and municipalities check off all of those boxes. All cities/municipalities/districts are to be marked as Mid Importance, and villages within them Low Importance.
This section describes the processes utilized by WikiProject Germany to assess the quality of its articles.
The individual review process is used for all assessment activity up to B-Class articles. Any editor may assess an article or list and assign assessment according to the listed criteria by themselves.
An article's author may use this process to assign assessment themselves. However, the final assessment for B-Class and beyond is typically left in the hands of an independent editor for review. Requests for independent review can be made at theassessment request page.
The peer review process is not used to evaluate an article for a particular assessment level directly; rather, it is a forum where article authors can solicit ideas for further improvements. Peer review is most often requested when an article is at the C-Class or B-Class level; articles at lower levels are typically so incomplete that a meaningful review is impossible, while articles at higher levels go through more formal review processes.
Thegood article nomination process is an independent review mechanism through which an article receives a "good article" quality rating. The process involves a detailed review of the article by an independent examiner, who determines whether the article meets thegood article criteria.
Full instructions for requesting a good article review are provided on the good article review page.
Thefeatured article candidacy andfeatured list candidacy processes are an independent, Wikipedia-wide quality assessment mechanism; these processes are the only way an article can receive a "featured" quality rating. The process involves a comprehensive review of the article by multiple independent examiners, all of whom must agree that the article meets thefeatured article or list criteria.
Full instructions for submitting a featured article or list candidacy are provided on the corresponding candidacy page. Editors are advised to carefully review the submission instructions; failing to follow them correctly may cause the submission to be rejected.
An article's quality assessment is recorded using the|class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the{{WikiProject Germany}} 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 (seeWikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA | (forfeatured articlesonly; adds them to theFA-Class Germany articles category) | FA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | (forfeatured listsonly; adds them to theFL-Class Germany articles category) | FL | |
| A | (for articles that passed a formalpeer reviewonly; adds them to theA-Class Germany articles category) | A | |
| GA | (forgood articlesonly; adds them to theGA-Class Germany articles category) | GA | |
| B | (for articles that satisfy all of theB-Class criteria; adds them to theB-Class Germany articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to theC-Class Germany articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to theStart-Class Germany articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to theStub-Class Germany articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (forstand-alone lists; adds them to theList-Class Germany articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to theNA-Class Germany pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in theUnassessed Germany articles category) | ??? |
| FM | (forfeatured mediaonly; adds them to theFM-Class Germany pages category) | FM | |
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| Category | (forcategories; adds them to theCategory-Class Germany pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (fordrafts; adds them to theDraft-Class Germany pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (forfiles andtimed text; adds them to theFile-Class Germany pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (forportal pages; adds them to thePortal-Class Germany pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (forproject pages; adds them to theProject-Class Germany pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (fortemplates andmodules; adds them to theTemplate-Class Germany pages category) | Template |
| Disambig | (fordisambiguation pages; adds them to theDisambig-Class Germany pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (forredirect pages; adds them to theRedirect-Class Germany pages category) | Redirect |
Editors may self-assess against the five B-class criteria up to and including C-Class. If you have made significant improvements to an article against one or more of B-class criteria and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below, specifying which criteria you have worked on. If you feel unable to assess against one or more of the B-class criteria, please say so when posting.
Please help to clear any backlogs of unassessed articles in the following categories:
In true stereotypical German fashion, it's time for graphs and numbers.
Progress in the backlogs for articles not assessed by quality or important to the WikiProject.
| Germany articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| FA | 3 | 17 | 54 | 166 | 1 | 241 | |
| FL | 2 | 3 | 35 | 40 | |||
| FM | 224 | 224 | |||||
| A | 2 | 1 | 4 | 49 | 56 | ||
| GA | 12 | 44 | 121 | 773 | 14 | 964 | |
| B | 46 | 261 | 489 | 2,468 | 2 | 490 | 3,756 |
| C | 68 | 545 | 1,678 | 8,761 | 1 | 1,401 | 12,454 |
| Start | 4 | 592 | 3,983 | 42,656 | 8 | 5,616 | 52,859 |
| Stub | 3 | 1,154 | 44,046 | 4 | 16,052 | 61,259 | |
| List | 3 | 66 | 363 | 2,063 | 14 | 218 | 2,727 |
| Category | 32,815 | 32,815 | |||||
| Disambig | 312 | 312 | |||||
| File | 1,195 | 1,195 | |||||
| Portal | 198 | 198 | |||||
| Project | 59 | 59 | |||||
| Redirect | 12 | 65 | 922 | 7,333 | 8,332 | ||
| Template | 3,938 | 3,938 | |||||
| NA | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Other | 3 | 181 | 184 | ||||
| Draft | 48 | 6 | 54 | ||||
| Assessed | 138 | 1,543 | 7,914 | 101,990 | 46,307 | 23,792 | 181,684 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 29 | 8 | 904 | 942 | ||
| Total | 138 | 1,544 | 7,914 | 102,019 | 46,315 | 24,696 | 182,626 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =694,925 | Ω = 5.28 | |||||
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Afull log of assessment changes for the past seven days is available; unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.
