For the Spring 2007 Assessment Drive see /Spring 2007
The drive has ended.
WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive is a three-month long effort to reduce the backlog of unassessed biography articles from 113,385 as of June 1, 2007 to 0 articles by September 1, 2007. It may seem like a long journey but with the right amount of help it can be done! We would love to have your help and you will be generously rewarded for your efforts!
This will be the second assessment drive this project has had. The Spring 2007 Assessment Drive was a month-long drive and reduced the number of unassessed articles from 135,345 to 91,021. The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. If you have any questions or comments please direct them to the talk page.
The number of unassessed articles will decrease as a result of this drive, but may increase as a result of articles being tagged with the {{WPBiography}} project banner with the class parameter not filled in. However, the number of assessed articles will increase as values are entered into the class parameters. The number of articles assessed during this drive is the total number of articles assessed on the statistic date minus the number of assessed articles on the previous statistic date as indicated by the Biography articles by quality statistics. The bot that updates this runs every other day, more or less. If you see that this table needs updating be bold and update it yourself. If you want to run the bot, go here. It is very slow though and the server will likely cut you off since the job takes so long.
Have you ever assessed an article? If not go to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment and read up on how to assess an article for this project. If you would like to save yourself a lot of time and easily keep track of how many articles you've assessed you should consider getting Outriggr's script. It has instructions on using it and getting it set up. To keep your counter of articles assessed accurate make sure you don't click the grade you want to give an article more than once, since the script counts how many times you've clicked one of the grade links. Also don't click the count of articles you have assessed. It will reset the counter back to zero. While doing this make sure you give every article the grade it deserves. If you're ready to start assessing articles, put your name down and list what section(s) you're going to do. Good Luck!
Note: Please remember that assessing any article above B-Class (that is GA, A, and FA class) must first receive nomination and pass the criteria of its relative class before they can achieve that status. You can find the nomination and review in its talk page (or its archives).
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Here you can sign your name and list what section(s) you are working on.
Psychless During the drive I have been assessing almost exclusively in the J section. Four thousand articles later and I'm not even done with the Ja section. I work on the unassessed articles in the politics and government and actors workgroup when they get out of hand, sometimes.
Ozgod I will focus on sections X / Y / Z - T / U / V initially and branch out once those are completed. I will also keep an eye on new articles created.
Carom Currently working on military and politics categories.
Cam I'll just work on whatever needs working on. I'll likely stick to A/B/C, since that will take enough time as it is.
FeanorStar7 starting with the alpha list at A; also will look at talk pages as I am cleaning up birth and death categories on my own
Ludahai I will do any and all, but since I am into history and political science, look for me to do politicians, government related articles, and historical figures.
Bernstein2291 I am going through the Unassesed categorys.
Cattus I only assess articles I've read, so I'll probably only assess short ones
Kimontalk - I'll start from K and work my way from there.
Thereen 18:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC) - I'll be starting on T[reply]
Wizardman- Anything and Everything! I'll concentrate mainly on sports, but nothing's off-limits for me.--Wizardman 02:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Aboutmovies - Assessed over 2000 last month for WP:ORE so will continue that as WPBIO comes up in that context. When WP:ORE assessment drive ends I'll continue to work on backlog here.
KGV (Talk) -Starting from A to the end —KGV (Talk) 10:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Brendandh 13:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC) will assess as I come across them[reply]
Greycap 13:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Anything and everything.[reply]
Heidijane 14:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Will assess mainly from H onwards[reply]
María(habla conmigo) 16:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Will assess mostly individuals in the arts and entertainment (including filmmakers and actors)[reply]
There will also be a "race" to see who can assess the most articles.
There will be special awards for the First, Second, and Third Place winners. These are:
To receive an award, please include your name and the number of biographies you have assessed as part of this drive. Please keep a running total next to your name. Awards will be given by the drive's awards committee after this drive ends. The awards committee will award awards by the instructions in the awards section. However, any editor may award another editor an award, so if you see actions taken during this drive that merit an award, please feel free to show your appreciation.
The following is a list of sections, showing whether or not they have been completed. A section is considered completed if it has been reduced to zero articles at some point during the assessment drive, and has therefore become a simple maintenance task for WikiProject Biography. When a section has been completed cross it out and put Complete by it. Just because a section has been considered complete doesn't mean it is complete. These should be the sections you should check up on often to make sure they stay near 0. If a section is getting out of hand again then remove the "Complete", or, better yet, clean up that section yourself.
