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If you are new to the assessment department, consider reading the FAQs first. They appear here for convenience and to educate newcomers to the assessment process. However, you are free to use this page to collaborate with the editors working on this WikiProject. Remember to be bold and open up to the assessment/collaboration process on this project.

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Frequently asked questions

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How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
To add an article to the knowledge of other members of WP Pakistan, simply add {{WP Pakistan}} to the talk page of that particular article. See the template's documentation for detailed information.
How can I get my article rated?
For the articles to be rated you need to add the articles in the section for assessment requests and soon enough members from the assessment team would respond commenting on the article's talk page. They will then use the {{WP Pakistan|class=}} to manipulate your article's class status.
Who can assess articles?
Any member of the WikiProject Pakistan can add or change the rating of an article. For a list of users who have dedicated themselves towards the assessment department, see the member list here.
Did the reviewer leave any comments?
If the reviewer had a left a comment, a link, "(see comments)" will show up on the project banner, that will take you to the sub-page containing the comments.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, you may not receive detailed comments in all instances. If this is the case, you might ask the person who assessed the article if you have any particular questions; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
Where can I get more comments about my article?
The peer review department can conduct more thorough examination of articles; please submit it for review there.
What if I don't agree with a rating?
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective?
Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
How can I keep track of changes in article ratings?
A full log of changes over the past thirty days is available here. If you are just looking for an overview, however, the table above may be more accessible.
How does this all work?
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Objectives

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Backlog: Unassessed Pakistan articles
Goal: 0 articles
Current: 1 articles
Initial: 3,164 articles
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Backlog: Unknown-importance Pakistan articles
Goal: 0 articles
Current: 3 articles
Initial: 9,258 articles
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Requesting an assessment

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If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead. Please archive requests that are complete.

  1. Example -- Example (talk) 16:31, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please place new requests (in the format, # [[article name]] -- ~~~~ ) at the bottom of the list. See the example above for reference.

Editorial debates

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Editorial debates may include disputes over the content in articles. If such a dispute is filed for the editors' considerations, the relevant article's talk pages may be regarded as a staging ground for affairs that need to be resolved. After a consensus (that would still require some votes) debates surrounding issues like sectarianism and nationalism have paved the way for assessment of citations used in the articles on the basis of the Wikipedia's third opinion rules.

If there are citations that need to be judged and evaluated by third-party neutral peers, they need to be discussed citation review page.

Instructions

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WP Pakistan}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WP Pakistan| ... | class=??? | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Pakistan articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below. Rater is a very useful tool for quickly and efficiently assessing articles.

Quality scale

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Importance scale

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The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Pakistan.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Status Template Meaning of Status
Top {{Top-Class}} This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High {{High-Class}} This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid {{Mid-Class}} This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low {{Low-Class}} This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None None This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

Statistics in a Glance

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The numbers depicted here are in their hundreds

As can be seen from the graph on the right generated using data depicted in the reports of the Wikipedia editorial teams's Pakistan statistics page. The amount of assessed and unassessed articles has risen dramatically while the amount of articles declared stubs has stayed at a stable percentage increase. What is interesting is the fact that most start articles and B-class articles remain unchanged over the course and no effort is put into improving these articles. It is also visible that we are loosing touch with some featured articles that relate to Pakistan as well.

The team

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Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the assessment team. Please, preferably, all assessment team members should be registered users and have active home pages.

  1. Crosji (talk · contribs)
  2. DdBbCc22 (talk · contribs)
  3. Idell (talk · contribs)
  4. RealKnockout (talk · contribs)
  5. Sahara4u (talk · contribs)
  6. Samee (talk · contribs)
  7. SheriffIsInTown (talk · contribs)
  8. Smsarmad (talk · contribs)
  9. Spasage (talk · contribs)
  10. Tahir Pro (talk · contribs)
  11. TopGun (talk · contribs)
  12. Wikibear47 (talk · contribs)

Example assessments

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WikiProject iconPakistan B‑class Top‑importance
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Pakistan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Pakistan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
BThis article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
TopThis article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Log

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The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

List of Tag & Assess drives

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