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{{selfref|For the project page on WikiProjects, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject]].}}

A '''WikiProject''', or '''Wikiproject''', is the organization of a [[social group|group]] of participants in a [[wiki]] established in order to achieve specific editing goals, or to achieve goals relating to a specific field of knowledge.<ref name="Ayers">Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, ''How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it'' (2008), p. 213.</ref><ref name="Kraut">Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, ''Building Successful Online Communities'' (2012), p. 207, "WikiProjects are groups of editors who work together on articles within a domain, like military history, sports, or medicine".</ref><ref name="Broughton">{{cite book | title=[[Wikipedia – The Missing Manual]] | publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]] | author=Broughton, John | year=2008 | pages=165–175}}</ref> WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, [[Wikipedia]], and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikiquote]], and [[Wikisource]].

==On Wikipedia==
Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For example, in 2014 the [[Cochrane Collaboration]] announced that it had entered into a partnership with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine|Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine]], "to improve the reliability and accessibility of Wikipedia medical information online".<ref>Press Release, "[http://community.cochrane.org/news/news-events/current-news/cochrane-announces-partnership-initiative-wikiproject-medicine Cochrane announces partnership initiative with WikiProject Medicine]" (February 11, 2014).</ref>

Wikipedia has thousands of WikiProjects, primarily divided between specific topical areas and performing specific maintenance tasks.<ref name="Ayers"/><ref name="Broughton"/> One task commonly performed by topical WikiProjects in Wikipedia is the assessment of the quality of articles that fall within that topic area.<ref name="Deng">Huijing Deng, Bernadetta Tarigan, Mihai Grigore, Juliana Sutanto, "Understanding the ‘Quality Motion’ of Wikipedia Articles Through Semantic Convergence Analysis", ''HCI in Business: Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', Vol. 9191 (July 21, 2015), p. 64-75.</ref> In Wikipedia and sister projects, WikiProject pages are located in project space,<ref name="Ayers"/> and the meta information regarding the association between the article and the WikiProject is usually included on the talk page of the article.<ref name="Deng"/> WikiProjects provide an additional avenue for engagement between editors with similar interests, and have thereby been found to increase the productivity of such editors.<ref name="Kraut"/> In order to spur participation and concentrate effectiveness, WikiProjects in Wikipedia may engage in activities like having a "collaboration of the week",<ref>Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, ''Building Successful Online Communities'' (2012), p. 38, "WikiProjects are groups of editors who work together on articles within a domain, like military history, sports, or medicine".</ref> or designating one article to be improved to the point of achieving "featured" status.<ref>Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, ''Building Successful Online Communities'' (2012), p. 85, "WikiProjects are groups of editors who work together on articles within a domain, like military history, sports, or medicine".</ref> The WikiProject Council is a group of editors that assists with the development of active ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProjects]]'', and acts as a central point for inter-WikiProject discussion and collaboration.

A 2008 [[Academic studies about Wikipedia|academic study of Wikipedia]] concluded that participation in WikiProjects substantially improved the chances of an editor becoming an administrator, finding that one Wikipedia policy edit or WikiProject edit is worth ten article edits,<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Burke | first1 = Moira | last2 = Kraut | first2 = Robert | title = Taking up the mop | page = 3441 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1145/1358628.1358871 | journal=Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ''08}}</ref> and concluding:

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Merely performing a lot of production work is insufficient for "promotion" in Wikipedia. Candidates’ article edits were
weak predictors of success. They also have to demonstrate more managerial behavior. Diverse experience and contributions to the development of policies and WikiProjects were stronger predictors of [[WP:RfA|RfA]] success. This is consistent with the findings that Wikipedia is a bureaucracy<ref name=buttler07>{{cite journal | last1 = Butler | first1 = Brian | last2 = Joyce | first2 = Elisabeth | last3 = Pike | first3 = Jacqueline | title = Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy | page = 1101 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1145/1357054.1357227 | journal=Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ''08}}</ref> and that coordination work has increased substantially.<ref>{{cite journal |author= Kittur, Aniket; Suh, Bongwon; Pendleton, Bryan A.; and Chi, Ed H. |year=2007 |title= He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia
|journal= Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=453–462 |doi=10.1145/1240624.1240698|isbn=978-1-59593-593-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Viegas, Fernanda B. |author2=Wattenberg, Martin |author3=Kriss, Jesse |author4=van Ham, Frank |year= 2007|title= Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia|journal= 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |pages=575–582|publisher=IEEE Xplore Digital Library |doi=10.1109/HICSS.2007.511 }}</ref> [...] Participation in Wikipedia policy and WikiProjects was not predictive of adminship prior to 2006, suggesting the community as a whole is beginning to prioritize policymaking and organization experience over simple article-level coordination.
}}

===WikiProjects and assessments of article importance and quality===
{{Further|Wikipedia:WikiProject assessment}}
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The [[English Wikipedia]] currently has over [[Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProjects by changes|2,000 WikiProjects]], with varying degrees of activity.<ref>{{citation | title=[[Wikipedia:Wikiprojects]] | accessdate=}}</ref>

In 2007, in preparation for producing a print version, the English Wikipedia introduced an assessment scale of the quality of articles.<ref name="WP 1.0 editorial team 1">{{citation |title=[[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment]]|accessdate=}}</ref> Articles are rated by WikiProjects. The range of quality classes begins with "Stub" (very short pages), followed by "Start", "C" and "B" (in increasing order of quality). Community peer review is needed for the article to enter one of the highest quality classes: either "A", "[[WP:Good articles|good article]]" or the highest, "[[WP:Featured articles|featured article]]". Of the about 4.4 million articles and lists assessed as of March 2015, a little more than 5000 (0.12%) are featured articles, and a little less than 2000 (0.04%) are featured lists. One featured article per day, as selected by editors, appears on the [[main page]] of Wikipedia.<ref name="FMonday feat article patterns 1">{{cite web|url=http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2365/2182|title=Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in Wikipedia|publisher=[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]|accessdate=July 13, 2010}}</ref><ref name="IBM feat articles hidden pattern 1">{{cite journal|url=http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/hidden_order_wikipedia.pdf|author1=Fernanda B. Viégas |author2=Martin Wattenberg |author3=Matthew M. McKeon |last-author-amp=yes |title=The Hidden Order of Wikipedia|publisher=Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research|date=July 22, 2007|format=PDF|accessdate=October 30, 2007}}</ref>

The articles can also be rated as per "importance" as judged by a WikiProject. Currently, there are 5 importance categories: "low", "mid", "high", "top", and "???" for unclassified/unsure level. For a particular article, different WikiProjects may assign different importance levels.

The [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] has developed a table (shown below) that displays data of all rated articles by quality and importance, on the English Wikipedia. If an article or list receives different ratings by two or more WikiProjects, then the highest rating is used in the table, pie-charts, and bar-chart. The software regularly auto-updates the data.

Researcher Giacomo Poderi found that articles tend to reach featured status via the intensive work of a few editors.<ref name="Poderi Giacomo feat articles 1">Poderi, Giacomo, ''Wikipedia and the Featured Articles: How a Technological System Can Produce Best Quality Articles'', Master thesis, [[University of Maastricht]], October 2008.</ref> A 2010 study found unevenness in quality among featured articles and concluded that the community process is ineffective in assessing the quality of articles.<ref name="FMonday WP quality control 1">{{cite journal|url=http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2721/2482|title=Evaluating quality control of Wikipedia's featured articles|first=David|last=Lindsey|journal=First Monday|volume=15|issue=4|date=April 5, 2010|accessdate=January 29, 2017}}</ref>

{{Pie chart
| caption = '''Quality-wise distribution of over 5.5 million articles and lists on the English Wikipedia, {{As of|2017|1|29|lc=y}}'''<ref name="en.wikipedia">[[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]]</ref>
| other =
| label1 = Featured articles
| value1 = 0.11
| color1 = violet
| label2 = Featured lists
| value2 = 0.04
| color2 = indigo
| label3 = A class
| value3 = 0.03
| color3 = lightblue
| label4 = Good articles
| value4 = 0.50
| color4 = darkgreen
| label5 = B class
| value5 = 2.00
| color5 = lightgreen
| label6 = C class
| value6 = 4.32
| color6 = yellow
| label7 = Start class
| value7 = 26.41
| color7 = orange
| label8 = Stub class
| value8 = 53.01
| color8 = red
| label9 = Lists
| value9 = 3.65
| color9 = purple
| label10 = Unassessed
| value10 = 9.94
| color10 = black
}}
<div style="float: right; padding-left: 7 px;">
{{Pie chart
| caption = '''Importance-wise distribution of over 5.5 million articles and lists on the English Wikipedia, {{As of|2017|1|29|lc=y}}'''<ref name="en.wikipedia" />
| other =
| label1 = Top
| value1 = 0.91
| label2 = High
| value2 = 3.20
| label3 = Medium
| value3 = 12.21
| label4 = Low
| value4 = 51.68
| label5 = ???
| value5 = 32.00
}}
</div>
{{User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/OverallArticles}}
{{ #invoke:Chart | bar chart
| height = 700
| width = 800
| stack = 1
| group 1 = 1173 : 1804 : 1708 : 1060 : 187
| group 2 = 141 : 562 : 661 : 600 : 118
| group 3 = 221 : 427 : 579 : 371 : 80
| group 4 = 2089 : 4767 : 9291 : 10076 : 1692
| group 5 = 12033 : 22850 : 34918 : 27805 : 13632
| group 6 = 10253 : 29618 : 66133 : 91622 : 43202
| group 7 = 17198 : 75703 : 305141 : 783520 : 290296
| group 8 = 4225 : 30940 : 225862 : 1855720 : 837412
| group 9 = 3009 : 11220 : 34137 : 93404 : 61514
| group 10 = 139 : 407 : 1787 : 16209 : 535499
| colors = violet : indigo : lightblue : darkgreen : lightgreen : yellow : orange : red : purple : black
| group names = Featured articles : Featured lists : A-class articles : Good articles : B-class articles : C-class articles : Start-class articles : Stub articles : Lists : Unassessed articles and lists
| x legends = Top : High : Medium : Low : ???
}}
''[Note: The table above (prepared by the [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team]]) is automatically updated daily by [[User:WP 1.0 bot]], but the bar-chart and the two pie-charts are not auto-updated. In them, new data has to be entered by a Wikipedia editor (i.e. user).]''
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