On 13/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 13/09/06, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we could use the "A-Class"
rating from the WikiProject
> assessments here?
> The practical advantages are that WikiProjects can use a less
> process-heavy method of identifying such articles, and that the rating
> system is already becoming ubiquitous (at least among the more active
> projects). All that's really needed is some pushing towards a more
> consistent and well-defined way for the projects to assign this
> rating; and hopefully we'll have some working examples of more
> rigorous approaches to this soon.
That's an excellent idea!
Hit 'send' too soon. That's an excellent idea because the problem with
FAC or GA is that they're committee-based (even if it's an ad-hoc
committee of regulars), and committees don't scale. (This, by the way,
is I think why AFD and DRV get poisonous - the ad-hoc committee
changes the process for its convenience without actively considering
accessibility or scalability, so it becomes insular and jargonistic.)
Using the WikiProjects is a way to make the committees scale with the
article and editor base.
Perhaps of interest here (but please note that we're just getting
started, so the process may have some issues we haven't hit upon yet):