Wiki143:WikiProject Civil engineering/Assessment

One of the main tasks of WikiProject:Civil Engineering is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's civil engineering articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the Template:Tl project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Civil engineering articles by quality.

How to Assess

Quality scale

WikiProject Civil Engineering uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example

Importance

Basic syntax

{{Civil engineering| class=stub | importance=Low}}

• The word "importance" to start with a lowercase i. Values start with Uppercase, e.g. Low

Need: The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality

class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Template:C	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia	Regional and historic engineering techniques, world famous civil engineers and works of civil engineering; "Most famous or innovative, or otherwise notable." may appear in the text; article that covers several topics
class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Template:C	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge	Very important civil engineering projects and noteworthy civil engineers
class="import-mid " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Template:C	Subject fills in more minor details	Interesting civil engineering projects and civll engineers
class="import-low " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Template:C	Subject is mainly of specialist interest	Other civil engineering-related topics
class="assess-na " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:C	Not Applicable	Used for lists
Template:C	Unassessed	Unassessed-importance Civil engineering articles