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- There is a set of criteria to rate an article B, C, Start or Stub. These are called classes. Similarly, articles can be rated to be of 1 of 4 importance values to a particular WikiProject.
- There’s a banner on every article’s talk page. Any editor can change an article’s rating between one of the above classes boldly; if a revert happens, they discuss it according to the criteria.
- Some WikiProjects have their own criteria for rating articles. Some of them even have process to make an article A-class.
- Before this system, Wikipedia already had processes to make an article a Good Article or Featured article.
- With GAs, a nominator should put a candidate onto backlog. Later, a reviewer will scrutinize the article according to criteria. Often, the reviewer asks the nominator to fix quite a bit of issues. If these issues are fixed promptly, or the reviewer thinks that there are only nitpicks, the article passes. If they aren’t fixed in a week or the reviewer thinks that there are major problems, the article fails.
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- As with other processes, the nominator and reviewer can be anyone, though reviewers are usually experienced.
- With FAs, a nominator brings the candidate to a noticeaboard. Editors there then come to a consensus about whether the article should pass.
- Both processes display a badge directly on passed articles.
- Both processes have an associated re-review process where editors come to a consensus whether the article should fail if it were nominated today
- There’s also an informal process called “peer review”, where someone just puts an article at a noticeable and anyone can comment about its quality.
- Articles are automatically sorted into categories by their rating and importance. Editors usually look at these to decide which articles to focus on nowadays.