User:BranStark/Biographies

WikiProject Biography
General information
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Attention needed New articles Articles up for deletion People Academics and educators Actors and filmmakers Authors Business people Sports people Lists of people Fashion Bands and musicians Fictional characters Women Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people Requests for comment Suspected policy breaches Discretionary Sanctions apply to biographies
Departments
Assessment Maintenance Peer reviews
Work groups and subprojects
Arts and entertainment Actors and Filmmakers Musicians Women artists Genealogy Living persons Military Orphaned articles Politics and government Royalty and nobility Peers and Baronetage Science and academia Aerospace Philosophers Sports and games
Things you can do
Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles
Biography article statistics
Biography articles by quality and importance
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Biography articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Core	Other	???	Total
FA	34	1,597		1,631
FL		192		192
A	1	104		105
GA	41	8,107		8,148
B	92	37,508		37,600
C	37	160,485		160,522
Start	3	738,103		738,106
Stub	1	1,031,629	1	1,031,631
List		7,490		7,490
Category	2	215,119		215,121
Disambig		8,081		8,081
File		29,735		29,735
Project		198		198
Redirect	3	42,086		42,089
Template		12,708		12,708
NA		238		238
Assessed	214	2,293,380	1	2,293,595
Unassessed		32,176		32,176
Total	214	2,325,556	1	2,325,771
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,651,594			Ω = 5.39

Departments

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's biography articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{

}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

A-class review

A-class review examines current and possible future A-class articles to ensure they meet the A-class standards, which are relatively strict, though not as strict as those for

. Articles may be posted there by any editor to be reviewed and the opinion of anyone is welcome.

Collaboration

The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to

. The current collaboration article is '.

Users can also request help improving articles they come across here

Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters; a number of additional programs are either underway or being planned, however.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Translation

The translation department serves to enhance Wikipedia's biography content by translating material from non-English articles and sources for use within the project. To coordinate this, it includes a staff of volunteer translators for various languages.

The department typically works on translating featured articles from other-language Wikipedias; project members may request assistance with other material on the department page, or directly from one of the listed translators.