Wikipedia:WikiProject Aztec/Activities

(section for recording specific Project activities in progress, 'to-do' lists, and so on)

Article rating and assessment scheme

WP:AZTEC article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)

Current detailed listing of Aztec articles by quality
Daily log of status changes
Current Statistics	Rated article Categories
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Aztec articles by quality statistics	all by quality FA-Class A-Class GA-Class B-Class Start-Class Stub-Class Non-article Class UNASSESSED all by importance Top-priority High-priority Mid-priority Low-priority UNASSESSED Rating reassessment needed

An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for the specific subset of Mesoamerican articles which relate to Aztec civilization and history, which is monitored and maintained by WikiProject Aztec. In this scheme, Aztec-related articles ('article' here also includes lists) may be assigned:

• a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their class (overall quality), and
• a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their importance (priority or relative significance).

The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide editors with a sub-categorised survey of the current status of Aztec-related articles, which can then be used to prioritise the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.

This article rating and assessment scheme for Aztec-related articles forms a subset of the overall rating scheme for WikiProject Mesoamerica-related articles, and articles in the Aztec scheme also appear in the corresponding categories of the parent Mesoamerica scheme. See the corresponding WP:MESO article rating and assessment for details. The subsets of Aztec-related articles by quality and by importance have been separately defined to make it easier for the WP:AZTEC team to work with articles within that project's scope.

For example, higher-priority articles (those most essential to any encyclopaedia) in need of most work (i.e. lower quality) can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.

There will be a number of secondary benefits from the scheme, such as being able to track which kinds and topics of articles are 'neglected'.

This assessment and rating scheme follows the precepts adopted by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for details.

The class and importance ratings are recorded by setting appropriate values to the parameters of the Project banner, {{WP Aztec}}, which is placed on the corresponding talk pages of in-scope Aztec-related articles. See the template instructions for details on these and other parameters which can be set.

See the Quality scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by class/quality. See the Importance scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by importance/priority.

The assessments of class and importance are assigned manually by WP:AZTEC (or WP:MESO) project members (or other interested parties)– see the Rating instructions for details. Assigning a rating will automatically place the article in an appropriate rating category.

Once assigned, behind the scenes a bot (Mathbot (talk · contribs)) runs periodically (scheduled daily, about 0300hrs UTC) which compiles a variety of statistics and log data, which can then later be analysed.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed (indicated by changing the parameter value).

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.

See the Assessment subpage for full details and instructions.

Projects

Make the Aztec article a "featured article (FA)"

To do: The Aztec article is now a good article. Time to start working on getting it to be a featured article. --Richard 17:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I have requested peer review for the Aztec article as a way of getting feedback on how to improve that article to featured status. Please make any suggestions for improvement here.

--Richard 15:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

To do before requesting peer review:

1. In-line references. Very important.
2. A few more pictures – definitely a map of the empire (for government section) with Tenochtitlan and other important cities or territories, homelands of other groups and cultures
3. Something on architecture
4. Need some text on archeology / important sites
5. Pay attention to the use of Nahuatl words, when too many are used it is difficult for reader.
6. Relations with other groups (Mixtec etc.), history of Aztec conquest of neighbouring groups (is very short now)

• The article should not become any longer. From now on, information should only be added to the various subpages. The main article can still be fixed, clarified and summarized here and there, but should not be expanded. (Apart from the architecture and archeology sections of course) Piet 20:20, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Make the Spanish conquest of Mexico article a "good article (GA)"

To do: make Spanish conquest of Mexico good, then featured.

We're not too far away from good. See comments left by reviewer on Talk:Spanish conquest of Mexico.

To do before requesting peer review:

1. In-line references. Very important.
2. A few more pictures #Pay attention to the use of Nahuatl words, when too many are used it is difficult for reader.

• The article should not become any longer. The article can still be fixed, clarified and summarized here and there, but should not be expanded.

--Richard 17:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Tasks

1. Add in-text references to articles where needed, instead of only a list at the end of the page. Piet 21:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
2. Review relevant section in History of Mexico, specifically this text "With the decline of the Toltec civilization, came political fragmentation in the Valley of Mexico. Into this new political game of contenders to the Toltec throne stepped outsiders: the Mexica. They were also a desert people, one of seven groups who formerly called themselves "Azteca," but changed their name after years of migrating." --Richard 18:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
3. Review the title and intro section of the Spanish conquest of Mexico article, specifically in light of the fact that there are two articles Spanish conquest of Mexico and Spanish conquest of Yucatan. Should the Spanish conquest of Mexico article be more properly titled Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire? --Richard 04:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
4. Resolve the question of "Spanish" vs. "Spaniards". See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aztec --Richard 04:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
5. There should be an Aztec architecture article. There are articles on Maya architecture and Inca architecture. I have put this on the list of requested articles. --Richard 04:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
6. Make the "Aztec society" section of the Aztec article be a summary of the Aztec society article. --Richard 04:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
7. Develop a guideline for when to use the {{Pre-Columbian}} template. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Aztec/Strategy for discussion. --Richard 03:59, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
8. Moved "Make Aztec article a good article to the Projects section above. --Richard 03:59, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
9. Decide how to split up information over Aztec and Nahua pages. See Talk:Aztec#Proposal to change the title of this article to "Aztec civilization"

Articles currently being worked on

• Aztec - Richard, Nanahuatzin

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:Example