Rater (source) helps fill in assessments and other parameters for WikiProject banners. Find it in the "Tools" dropdown menu on the default Vector (2022) skin. UseAlt+5 to open Rater (on Windows, or a similar combination for other OSs) without using the dropdown menu.
Rater is available from either the page itself or its talk page, in all namespaces, apart from Special pages and base User and User talk pages (but is still available for userspace drafts in subpages).
Please check edits to ensure the results are as expected, andreport any problems.
Various preferences can be set through the Rater dialog. Once the main Rater window is opened, click on the cog wheel button in the top-left. Your preferences will be stored in araterPrefs.json subpage within your userspace.
Available preferences are:
Autostart Rater
Autostart on redirects
Autostart in specific namespaces
Bypass redirects to banners
Autofill class from other banners
Autofill class based on ORES prediction
Autofill low importance
Minimum number of parameters to show uncollapsed
Add edited pages to watchlist
You will need to reset any preferences you had from the old version of Rater.
These were stored in yourcommon.js, and should now be removed:
rater_autostartNamespaces =namespace number or numbers
Use anyweb color name or hex triplet in place of#F0F8FF.This will make template names take up the full available width (pushing class/importance dropdowns onto the next line):
Theclass rating is a measure of an article's quality, according to the grades described atWikipedia:Content assessment, or the individual WikiProject's assessment scale.
Generally, this assessment should only be in the{{WikiProject banner shell}}, though individual WikiProjects may use non-standard grades, or offer further advice on determining class ratings.SeeWP:PIQA for further information.
A machine-generated prediction of article quality (fromORES) is displayed in the lower-right corner of the Rater dialog. This isonly a prediction, and may be inaccurate (occasionally wildly so). The predicted rating is accompanied by a probability percentage, indicating how likely that particular rating is (ORES determines probabilities for each standard class rating, excluding List and FL, and displays the one with the highest probability score).
Theimportance rating indicates the importance or priority of an article,relative to a specific WikiProject and at the discretion of that project's members. An article can be rated as Low importance for one project, and Medium, High, or even Top importance for another project.
Statistically the large majority of articles are rated low importance, so that is the default suggestion when importance has not yet been rated.
Using other importance ratings, or reassessing importance after it has already been set, requires a greater level of competence regarding the individual WikiProject's project's goals and assessment criteria. If you are not that familiar with the WikiProject, consider discussing the importance rating on the project's or article's talk page.
Various ratings exist for non-article pages, but these do not usually need to be filled in. Such ratings can be automatically detected by banner templates, based on the page the banner is placed on.
Set class/importance for all banners (standard ratings only). Class ratings are applied to the banner shell, importance ratings are applied to individual banners.
{{WikiProject banner shell}} is added automatically, if not already present. If all projects have the same rating, it will be set in the banner shell and removed from individual banners.
The|living=,|blpo=,|activepol=,|listas= parameters will be moved from{{WikiProject Biography}} into the banner shell
After making changes, you can show a preview, show a diff, or just save the changes.
HoldCtrl and click (or middle-click using a mouse) on an entry to open the article's Talk page in a new Windows Tab.
DoCtrl+9 to move focus into Windows (last) tab.
ThenAlt+c to display the article page, and evaluate the article.
NextAlt+5 to open Rater. Before saving, watch forStart articles than are rated asStub and vice versa.
Make Rater changes as needed.
ThenAlt+s to Save.
Lastly,Ctrl+w, to close Windows (last) tab.
While above may seem complicated, with a little practice, and many repetitions the steps can become automatic. These speed rating steps are universal and apply throughout Wikipedia articles. For non-Windows browsers, use the equivalent keypresses instead.
TemplateData stores template/parameter information in a machine-readable format, for use by VisualEditor and other tools. Rater uses this TemplateData to provide parameter suggestions.
Popup window that appears after clicking "Manage TemplateData" buttonScreen for entering detailed information for a parameter
To quickly set up TemplateData for a template:
Edit the template's documentation, and click theManage TemplateData button near the top of the page
In the popup window, underTemplate parameters, click the "Add ## suggested parameters" button
(Optional) For each parameter, click on it to fill in detailed information for that parameter (see below)
Click the Apply button – the<templatedata>...</templatedata> block is inserted into the edit window
For each parameter listed underTemplate parameters, you enter click on it to add further details about that parameter. Rater uses the following fields:
Aliases
Alternative parameter names that are exactly equivalent.
Rater will recognise aliases, but save to the default parameter name.
Label
Human-readable title for the parameter.
Rater will display the label instead of the parameter name, which will instead be shown in a tooltip.
Description
Description of the specific parameter; can include usage instructions; must be plain text ([[wikilinks]], '''bold''', etcwill not work).
Rater will show the description in the label's tooltip.
Autovalue
Standard value to pre-fill the parameter with.
Rater will prefill manually-added parameters with this value.
Required
Filling out the parameter is mandatory for all uses of this template.
Rater will always show this parameter.
Suggested
Most users of the template will probably want to fill it in.
Rater will show this parameter when the banner is initially loaded or added.
Allowed values– this feature is missing from TemplateData, seephab:T53375. The following will work for Rater (but not other tools such as VisualEditor):
Set of available values for a parameter. Must be a well-formed array:
Starting with[
Then a comma-separated list of values, each withinsingle quotation marks
Ending with]
(e.g.['Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3']) Must be placed in the Description field.
Example:Priority for Task Force X. Set to one of: ['low', 'mid', 'high', 'top']
Rater will show a checkbox or dropdown menu instead of a text input:
Single value – Checkbox(checked = set to that value; unchecked = do not set parameter)
Two values – Checkbox(checked = set to first value; unchecked = set to second value)
