Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lebanon/Assessment

message: I'm posting here to get everyone's opinion on what grading scheme for assessment we should follow. I think it's best to use the conventional grade scheme for article quality and the importance scale used by the Wikipedia Release Version team  and WikiProject Canada respectively (both shown below). What do you think?
===Proposed grading scheme===
===Proposed importance scale===
We will of course have to make some modifications to this scale (e.g. replacing Canada with Lebanon).
Label	Criteria                                                                                                                      	Reader's experience                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	Editor's experience                                                                                                                                                                                                                                	Example
     	The article is one of the core topics about Canada.  Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on          	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.                                                                                                        	Canada, Provinces and territories of Canada
     	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                                                                                                                                      	British Columbia, Prime Minister of Canada
     	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.	Jasper National Park, Flag of the Governor General of Canada
     	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics 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.                                                                                                            	Villages of Alberta, Canada's grand railway hotels
LestatdeLioncourt talk 14:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, this is great.  I think it would be a great resource and help focus our efforts.  --Xtcrider 18:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: nice work lioncourt, it will surely help us expand and improve lebanese related articles. Fedayee 19:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks even though I can't take credit for this work :). But it is essential for us to start assessing articles in order to determine which ones need more care and have a more well-defined scope of operation. I will be working on the main assessment page this week. I hope you can all join with the assessment efforts. And please call me Lestat. LestatdeLioncourt talk 19:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: These are great! I think they'll be really useful for helping us focus our attention on where it's needed most. — George Saliba [talk] 23:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Super!... Great Start, LeStat... I am still unfamiliar with things like classes, etc... When I have time, I will catch up.  One thing I want to mention is that many articles about Lebanon specifically need Lebanese Editors who are a native speakers of Lebanese and have "accurate" familarity with Lebanon.  I am not sure how to incorporate this yet... Lcnj 08:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a quick remark, I think that's a very good work Lestat, these categories and grading scheme are suitable. for the moment, i'm little bit 'overbooked' and far away from home, i'll 'study' in detail what you've proposed in a week. Captainm 11:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: From scratch

message: We will of course have to make some modifications to this scale (e.g. replacing Canada with Lebanon).
Label	Criteria                                                                                                                      	Reader's experience                                                                                                                                                                                                                          	Editor's experience                                                                                                                                                                                                                                	Example
     	The article is one of the core topics about Canada.  Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on          	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.                                                                                                        	Canada, Provinces and territories of Canada
     	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                                                                                                                                      	British Columbia, Prime Minister of Canada
     	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.	Jasper National Park, Flag of the Governor General of Canada
     	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics 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.                                                                                                            	Villages of Alberta, Canada's grand railway hotels
LestatdeLioncourt talk 14:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, this is great.  I think it would be a great resource and help focus our efforts.  --Xtcrider 18:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: nice work lioncourt, it will surely help us expand and improve lebanese related articles. Fedayee 19:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks even though I can't take credit for this work :). But it is essential for us to start assessing articles in order to determine which ones need more care and have a more well-defined scope of operation. I will be working on the main assessment page this week. I hope you can all join with the assessment efforts. And please call me Lestat. LestatdeLioncourt talk 19:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: These are great! I think they'll be really useful for helping us focus our attention on where it's needed most. — George Saliba [talk] 23:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Super!... Great Start, LeStat... I am still unfamiliar with things like classes, etc... When I have time, I will catch up.  One thing I want to mention is that many articles about Lebanon specifically need Lebanese Editors who are a native speakers of Lebanese and have "accurate" familarity with Lebanon.  I am not sure how to incorporate this yet... Lcnj 08:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a quick remark, I think that's a very good work Lestat, these categories and grading scheme are suitable. for the moment, i'm little bit 'overbooked' and far away from home, i'll 'study' in detail what you've proposed in a week. Captainm 11:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed importance scale

message: I've added the assessment (rating and importance) to the WikiProject Lebanon Template. Please take a look. — George Saliba [talk] 10:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've filled in Lebanon's values (GA and top) on the Lebanon talk page as an example of what it looks like. — George Saliba [talk] 10:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the categories automatically generated by the template to the page. While these categories don't exist (as nobody has written any text on the pages yet), they are still functional and correctly list articles with that tag. The largest of the categories right now are obviously unassessed Lebanon articles and unknown-importance Lebanon articles. If someone wants to write some text on these category pages explaining what they are and how people can help I think that would be useful. — George Saliba [talk] 11:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Hats off to you George! Spectacular work~ I'll see what help I can give you with these categories. Adding just a sentence or two to each would be sufficient I think, so it shouldn't be too much trouble. —LestatdeLioncourt 14:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added assessment to template