== Metrics for Women in Red == 

 Hi Rosie. I'm sorry if I caused some confusion on the talk page of Women in Red with my comments on Metrics. Thanks for restating and clarifying your original objective. I am writing to you here because I really think it would be useful to refine AlexBot along the lines I suggested in order to remove the huge number of new articles on women in sports that are included every day so that we can concentrate more on biographies of women in other areas. The changes I suggested would be relatively easy to implement and we would have a day-to-day tally of new articles of relevance to main interests of the project. I think many of those involved in Women in Red and most of the other WikiProjects on women would agree that it is not really useful for us to review or upgrade articles on women in sports. In any case, it appears to be a sector which can take care of its own requirements. I very much hope Harej will be able to follow up on your own suggestion on metrics but if he experiences difficulty, then I think it would be useful to proceed with an alternative solution. You might be interested to know, btw, that I frequently look at the results of AlexBot for new articles on women writers and women artists. I also regularly use the AlexBot output on architecture for monitoring all the new articles created there. In many cases, I am able to edit in important improvements quite quickly and, in many cases, assign the articles to pertinent WikiProjects. I find the results extremely useful for enhancing articles sector by sector, even if about a third of them are not really relevant or worth expanding. On the other hand, I realize that it is often a tedious business to use the AlexBot output for adding to lists of new articles and agree it would be great if the operation could be partly or fully automated. But maybe we could improve both approaches at the same time. What do you think?