Over the past 2 weeks several fantastic NABers and Admins have been rating popular how-to topics to see how wikiHow stacks up. We have some good news and some bad news. On the good news front 42% of the articles were “Very Good” or better. On the bad news front 24% of the articles were just “useful” meaning they are similar to eHow’s standard quality or worse! Many thanks to Maniac, Metsguy234, Peter, IsabelleZita, Writelf, IamSH, and Elocina for the help here. And a huge thanks to Maniac, Metsguy234, and Peter who did tons of these ratings! Here are the results: So far we’ve rated 238 articles on a scale of 1 to 5. * 12% (28 of them) are 5 - “Featured Article” level quality * 30% (71 of them) are 4 - “Very good”. * 34% (81 of them) are 3 - “Good”. * 21% (50 of them) are 2 - “Useful” eg an eHow quality article. * 3% (8 of them) are 1 - “Bad” eg a stub or something otherwise terrible We at the wikiHaus will be using these human ratings to prioritize editing improvement efforts. In addition we will be calibrating our forthcoming automagic quality ratings based on these human ratings. Our goal should be to have 100% of the most popular how-to topics be “Very Good” or even FA quality. The faster we find the real losers, the faster we can at least get to 100% being “Good” or better. We still have 1,366 unrated articles on this spreadsheet. It would be great to get more folks rating articles. If you would like to help out, please give @Krystle
or me your email address so we can invite you to the spreadsheet. If you already have access to the spreadsheet, you can dive right in here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai1ngX7BI3BgdGR1SXVhUmRFalhXVHM5TjRJeFZKd1E#gid=1
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Awesome! Thanks to everyone that helped!
