An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for Macau-related articles, which is monitored and maintained by WikiProject Macau. In this scheme, all Macau-related articles ('article' here also includes lists) may be assigned a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their class (overall quality).
The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide editors with a sub-categorised survey of the current status of Macau-related articles, which can then be used to prioritise the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.
For example, lower-quality articles in need of most work can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.
There will be a number of secondary benefits from the scheme, such as being able to track which kinds and topics of articles are 'neglected'.
This assessment and rating scheme follows the precepts adopted by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for details.
The class ratings are recorded by setting appropriate values to the parameters of the main WP:MACAU Project banner, {{WikiProject Macau}} which are placed on the corresponding talk pages of articles about Macau or other closely related topics. See the template instructions for details on these and other parameters which can be set.
See the Quality scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by class/quality.
The assessments of class are assigned manually by WP:MACAU project members (or other interested parties)– see the Rating instructions for details. Assigning a rating will automatically place the article in an appropriate rating category.
Once assigned, behind the scenes a bot (Mathbot (talk · contribs)) runs periodically (scheduled daily, about 0300hrs UTC) which compiles a variety of statistics and log data, which can then later be analysed.
It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed (indicated by changing the parameter value).
Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage of Macau-related content.
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