Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment

message: The table at the top of the Instructions section doesn't seem to change dynamically. How often is it regenerated? THere should probably be a note as to frequency and last accurate date. dramatic 19:05, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've noticed this too.  However, it does change, but I don't know how it works! sorry--Nengscoz416 (talk) 23:58, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I gather it's updated automatically every three days by WP 1.0 bot, although you can also request an immediate update here. -- Avenue (talk) 12:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ah ha, the bot updates it every 3 - 10 days but if you want an instantaneous result, click the above link and type New Zealand in the gap. --Nengscoz416 (talk) 04:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Greetings - having gone from a messy wreck article last night noticed a lot of cats are not tagged - went for a foray and am a bit concerned - is it class=cat or class=NA for the NZ project? It would be good to get an answer from those who do it - cheers SatuSuro 04:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't classified any category articles, but it appears that they are class=NA. See :Category:Non-article New Zealand pages.-gadfium 04:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

text: There are some rogue class=cat's around though :( SatuSuro 04:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks for clarifying - full steam ahead then - SatuSuro 05:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Class=?

message: As was mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand I have a list of nearly 11k articles ready to be tagged with . The template has been updated to included the auto=yes option, and I plan to use this in conjunction with class=stub for all :Category:New Zealand stubs articles. 
I intend to automatically add an importance= rating based on the article traffic survey, based on:
Traffic index 	Importance
<= 100        	Top
<= 554        	High
<= 3069       	Mid
remainder ~14k	Low
XLerate (talk) 22:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't thought of assessing importance according to the article traffic. It will certainly lead to some anomalies: I doubt that many people would consider Halo: Chronicles to be a top-importance article for New Zealand, and I suspect that a large proportion of people visiting that article have no particular interest in the country of origin. Still, it seems a reasonable first cut, and the importance rating can be tweaked by editors later.-gadfium 00:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree traffic and importance are not the same, Halo is a good example. But it appears in many cases to be a reasonable approximation, and can show editors where they may get the best return for effort. I've tried to remove all articles with a less certain connection with the project: movies, military battles, Cook Islands (WP:Polynesia) subtopics, NZ expats, etc. I also plan to check prospective top and high articles, eyeball that list for any obvious anomalies. There will still be the odd error, but I think the amount of legwork saved (11k articles) significantly outweighs them. A disclaimer similiar to the auto stub message could be good. XLerate (talk) 02:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic tagging 

message: There are just over six and a half thousand unassessed articles (class wise). How about an assessment drive to get that number right down, awarding users for assessing x articles. I suggest basing it on the WikiProject Biography drive of 2008. Your thoughts? Adabow (talk)  23:19, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, just looked at one "unassessed" article and it was c-class but showing as unassessed because the class parameter in the template had been capitalized. dramatic (talk) 01:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I've started tackling the mid-importance list, By the way. 650-odd pages.dramatic (talk) 08:19, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started going through the NA-importance list alphabetically, starting from "A". – Liveste (talk • edits) 00:36, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Four months down the track and I've knocked off around 1600 articles - the mid-importance list is gone, plus the completely unassessed list (although that keeps growing again). I'm currently working through list-class articles without importance before looking at the low-imporetance classless articles. dramatic (talk) 07:20, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've managed to assess the importance of all the politics articles. In the process of doing so, I've reassessed the class of many of the articles. I've also improved quite a few articles along the way, which is why it took a while to get through it all. Schwede66 22:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment drive? 

message: Gadfium made the useful comment that old assessment requests should be removed. Would a good way to go about it be to move that section to the talk page (or a separate sub-page altogether) and then set up auto-archiving? Schwede66 06:17, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting an assessment - how to manage old requests 

message: Hi all - I'm about to nominate the article South Dunedin, which I have contributed substantially to, for GA status. If anyone can improve the article, please, now would be a great time to do so! Grutness...wha? 04:31, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA nom 

message: Does anybody know why New Zealand First Youth appears in the assessment table (Quality: other; Importance: ???)? It got deleted many months ago. Schwede66 18:30, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: New Zealand First Youth

message: See::Category:Defunct railway stations in New Zealand. Some of these will be notable in their own right (Palmerston North Central railway station?), most however, seem a little slight. I am not about to launch a crusade, just trying to figure out the rules as they are really applied. Pigeon Bush railway station is a good example of where I imagine the stubs going one day with a lot of work, still not that notable. If I get no replies I will put it in the long list of strange things on Wikipedia and move on with my life. But, I would like to understand. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 06:58, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry – what's the question? Schwede66 08:51, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, Schwede, Good call:). I can't find many of these pages notable by normal standards, what am I doing wrong? (Dushan Jugum (talk) 09:04, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. I see. I reckon that there are so many railway enthusiasts out there that there are a huge number of books written about rail infrastructure. You may find that most of them are probably notable. If you are unsure, pick a couple and put them through AfD to find out what level of interest / knowledge is out there. Schwede66 09:10, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It was bugging me, but your answer makes good sense. If they stay away from my pages on rocks, I will stay away from their railway stations. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 09:13, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Defunct railway stations in New Zealand