Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment
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Welcome to the assessment department of the Canada WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Canada related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Canada|class= |importance= }} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Canada-related articles by quality and Category:Canada-related articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
| Canada articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
Instructions
Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Canada}} 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 Canada-related articles category) |  FA |
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| FL | (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Canada-related articles category) | FL |
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| A | (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Canada-related articles category) |  A |
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| GA | (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Canada-related articles category) |  GA |
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| B | (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Canada-related articles category) | B | |
| C | (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Canada-related articles category) | C | |
| Start | (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Canada-related articles category) | Start | |
| Stub | (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Canada-related articles category) | Stub | |
| List | (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Canada-related articles category) | List | |
| NA | (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Canada-related pages category) | NA | |
| ??? | (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Canada-related articles category) | ??? |
| FM | (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class Canada-related pages category) | FM |
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| Category | (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Canada-related pages category) | Category | |
| Draft | (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Canada-related pages category) | Draft | |
| File | (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Canada-related pages category) | File | |
| Portal | (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Canada-related pages category) | Portal | |
| Project | (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Canada-related pages category) | Project | |
| Template | (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Canada-related pages category) | Template |
| Disambig | (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class Canada-related pages category) | Disambig | |
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| Redirect | (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class Canada-related pages category) | Redirect |
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Canada}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Canada|importance=???}}
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Canada-related articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Canada-related articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Canada-related articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Canada-related articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Canada-related articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Canada-related articles) | ??? |
Importance scale
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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| Top | The article is one of the core topics about Canada. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on {{Canada topics}} | A reader who is not involved in Canada will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. | Government of Canada, Culture of Canada, British Columbia |
| High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding specific topics about Canada or general topics about parts of Canada | Most readers will have some knowledge of the subject | Articles at this level cover particular issues related to Canada, specific terms are used to detail the topic | Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, History of Manitoba |
| Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in Canada. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Canada. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. | Minister of Transport (Canada), Rick Mercer, Jasper National Park |
| Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics directly related to Canada. | Few readers outside of Canada or that are not within the local area of the article's topic may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Canada, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. | Todd Russell, Canada's grand railway hotels, Villages of Alberta |
Assessments in other Canada-related projects
| Project | Aprox. size |
Statistics | WikiProject Canada banner | Independent banner | |
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| WikiProject Ontario | 20,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |on=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Quebec | 11,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |qc=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Nova Scotia | 4,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ns=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject New Brunswick | 3,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |nb=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Manitoba | 4,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |mb=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject British Columbia | 11,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |bc=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Prince Edward Island | 1,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |pe=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Saskatchewan | 5,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Alberta | 9,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ab=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador | 4,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |nl=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Toronto | 7,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |toronto=yes |toronto-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Toronto}} (3 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Montreal | 3,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |montreal=yes |montreal-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Montreal}} (1,000 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Vancouver | 2,200 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |vancouver=yes |vancouver-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Vancouver}} (880 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Ottawa | 2,100 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ottawa=yes |ottawa-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Ottawa}} (1,300 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Canadian Territories | 3,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |yt=yes}} {{WikiProject Canada |nt=yes}} {{WikiProject Canada |nu=yes}} |
none | |
| WikiProject Governments of Canada | 2,700 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |cangov=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada | 9,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ppap=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada | 2,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |riding=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian law | 1,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |canlaw=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject History of Canada | 1,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |history=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Geography of Canada | 18,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |geography=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Canadian communities | 17,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |community=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Education in Canada | 3,700 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |education=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian sport | 8,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sport=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Canadian TV shows | 2,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |tvshow=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian music | 10,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |music=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods | 1,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes |community=yes}} | deleted | |
| Projects and taskforces outside the scope of WikiProject Canada's talk page banner | |||||
| WikiProject Film/Canadian cinema task force | 2,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |cinema=yes}} NB: only adds a link, does not assess |
{{WikiProject Film|Canadian-task-force=yes}} | |
| WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force | 2,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |military=yes}} NB: only adds a link, does not assess |
{{WPMILHIST|Canadian-task-force=yes}} | |
| WikiProject Canada Roads | 2,300 | stats | none | {{Canada Roads WikiProject}} | |
| WikiProject Canadian football | 3,600 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Canadian football}} | |
| WikiProject Prescott-Russell | 36 | none | none | {{WikiProject Prescott-Russell}} | |
| Degrassi task force | 180 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Television|degrassi=y}} | |
| WikiProject Okanagan | 530 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Okanagan}} | |
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