Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Assessment

What is this all about? The aim of this sub-project is to assess mathematics articles for their quality and importance (or priority), and to classify them broadly by field. These ratings are intended to help the project track its progress, identify weak spots in its coverage, and highlight articles which could become Good Articles or Featured articles. They also link with the Wikipedia 1.0 project to produce a CD-ROM with the best of Wikipedia, and similar ratings are used by over 100 WikiProjects.

The table summarizes information about the articles that have been assigned ratings.

How to assess articles

Any article can be assessed for its mathematical content and anybody can assess an article simply by adding the {{maths rating}} tag to the article's talk page and filling in the class and importance and parameters (see below). These ratings can be modified by all editors, with disputes discussed on the article's talk page. The most important component of this assessment is the quality of the article, given by the class parameter. If this parameter is omitted, the {{maths rating}} tag will place the article in the unassessed category, which is a signal for other editors to grade its quality.

The quality criteria for articles in this project follow the WP 1.0 assessment. A log of new ratings and changes can be found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Mathematics articles by quality log.

The {{maths rating}} template

To classify an article, place the template {{maths rating}} on the article's talk page. Anyone can add a maths rating or change an existing rating. The template can be used to assess the importance (or priority) and quality (or class grading) of the article using the importance and class parameters respectively. Specifying these parameters will place the article in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Mathematics articles by priority and Category:Mathematics articles by quality. There is also a field parameter to define the subject area of the article.

For full details please visit Template:Maths rating/doc.

Assessment summary and list of fields

Quality grading scheme

A more extensive description of the quality grading criteria is given in the table below. This is based on the WP 1.0 Assessment.

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Priority scale

Assessing the priority or importance level of mathematics articles is not straightforward. It is discussed in more detail here. The following table adds a little more detail about priority levels for mathematics articles.

Articles to include

The prioritization of mathematics articles has been motivated by: articles highlighted in Mathematics; those linked from Portal:Mathematics#Topics in Mathematics; a selection of the most linked-to maths articles (see talk page); Wikipedia:Vital_articles#Mathematics; and anything else an editors felt should be included as important.

The lists of articles have split into subpages organised by mathematical field, and are linked via the navigation box at the top and bottom of this page. (The exceptions are the "Core" articles, detailed below.) The lists are not meant to be exhaustive or definitive and editors are encouraged to make additions.

Core Articles

See Mathematics Core Articles.