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.

Progress on assessing articles

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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.

Assessed
articles
Unassessed
articles
Statistic date Number assessed
by statistic date
Running total
of assessed articles
265,876 113,385 June 1, 2007 Start Start
266,411 113,126 June 2, 2007 535 535
268,488 109,814 June 3, 2007 2,077 2,612
271,541 107,328 June 4, 2007 3,053 5,665
278,071 101,092 June 7, 2007 6,530 12,195
291,074 94,425 June 15, 2007 13,003 25,198
292,223 93,397 June 16, 2007 1,149 26,347
294,710 91,371 June 18, 2007 2,487 28,834
296,959 88,846 June 20, 2007 2,249 31,083
300,295 88,638 June 22, 2007 3,336 34,419
305,294 87,159 June 24, 2007 5,001 39,160
307,408 85,613 June 26, 2007 2,114 41,274
309,977 83,950 June 28, 2007 2,569 43,843
311,854 81,996 June 30, 2007 1,877 45,720
315,517 79,447 July 2, 2007 3,663 49,383
318,423 78,071 July 4, 2007 2,906 52,289
319,891 77,057 July 6, 2007 1,568 53,857
322,766 75,345 July 9, 2007 2,875 56,732
326,212 72,856 July 12, 2007 3,446 60,178
330,213 69,829 July 16, 2007 4,001 64,179
332,030 75,495 July 19, 2007 1,817 65,996
336,295 73,770 July 25, 2007 4,265 70,261
339,240 71,389 July 31, 2007 2,945 73,206
342,273 71,819 August 4, 2007 3,033 76,239
344,412 70,130 August 7, 2007 2,139 78,378
348,169 69,986 August 13, 2007 3,757 82,135
350,218 68,435 August 16, 2007 2,049 84,184
352,247 66,531 August 19, 2007 2,029 86,212
355,627 63,923 August 22, 2007 3,380 89,751
358,036 63,456 August 25, 2007 2,409 92,160
369,816 56,237 August 31, 2007 11,780 103,940

Instructions

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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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Other Information

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If you are unhappy with a particular assessment please go to the assessor's talk page and ask them to review their assessment again.

List Class? Don't use this class. Our template doesn't really accept it and we've decided to just assess lists as normal articles.

Work

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Here you can sign your name and list what section(s) you are working on.

Awards

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For participating in this drive significantly, you will be awarded one or more awards by: Psychless, Ozgod, OhanaUnited, and Miranda.

For assessing X articles, you will receive:

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:

1. The Golden Wiki Award
2. The Silver Wiki Award
3. The Bronze Wiki Award

Please note that the awards handed out at the end may be different from the current one posted. For the most updated version, please go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Assessment/Assessment Drive#Awards.

Nominations

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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.

  1. Ludahai (talk · contribs · count) 10,440
  2. Wizardman (talk · contribs · count) 9000
  3. Captain panda (talk · contribs · count) 7000
  4. The Giant Puffin (talk · contribs · count) 6400
  5. BrokenSphere (talk · contribs · count) 5050
  6. Psychless (talk · contribs · count) 4770
  7. Mudforce (talk · contribs · count) 3779
  8. Belovedfreak (talk · contribs · count) 3220
  9. Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs · count) 3075
  10. Zouavman Le Zouave (talk · contribs · count) 2001
  11. Awadewit (talk · contribs · count) 2000
  12. Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs · count) 1654
  13. KenWalker (talk · contribs · count) 1500
  14. Yamara (talk · contribs · count) 1461
  15. Heidijane (talk · contribs · count) 1355
  16. FeanorStar7 (talk · contribs · count) 1270
  17. PC78 (talk · contribs · count) 1112
  18. S_Sepp (talk · contribs · count) 1016
  19. OhanaUnited (talk · contribs · count) 1005
  20. Kimon (talk · contribs · count) 631
  21. Yllosubmarine (talk · contribs · count) 570
  22. Natsubee (talk · contribs · count) 555
  23. Zeibura (talk · contribs · count) 536
  24. Mahanga (talk · contribs · count) 515
  25. KGV (talk · contribs · count) 509
  26. LordHarris (talk · contribs · count) 501
  27. Climie.ca (talk · contribs · count) 383
  28. lordevilvenom (talk · contribs · count)359
  29. Jreferee (talk · contribs · count) 350
  30. Carom (talk · contribs · count) 345
  31. Thereen (talk · contribs · count) 334
  32. oneworld25 (talk · contribs · count) 291
  33. Espresso Addict (talk · contribs · count) 270
  34. JHoltzman (talk · contribs · count) 230
  35. Bencherlite (talk · contribs · count), Bencherlite (AWB) (talk · contribs · count) 220
  36. CarrotMan (talk · contribs · count) 200
  37. Hirohisat (talk · contribs · count) and/or Reviewisat (talk · contribs · count) 200
  38. Mattl2001 (talk · contribs · count) 155
  39. Crzycheetah (talk · contribs · count) 155
  40. Geraldk (talk · contribs · count) 125
  41. Miraculousrandomness (talk · contribs · count) 124
  42. Themcman1 (talk · contribs · count) 108
  43. LaraLove (talk · contribs · count) 106
  44. Thesocialistesq (talk · contribs · count) 101
  45. RHB (talk · contribs · count) ~100
  46. Luksuh (talk · contribs · count) 99
  47. CaseKid (talk · contribs · count) 87
  48. Rachack (talk · contribs · count) 80
  49. Lankiveil (talk · contribs · count) 79
  50. Flubeca (talk · contribs · count) 73
  51. Plange (talk · contribs · count) 67
  52. Real96 (talk · contribs · count) 63
  53. Errabee (talk · contribs · count) 62
  54. Cattus (talk · contribs · count) 54
  55. Judgesurreal777 (talk · contribs · count) 38
  56. GDonato (talk · contribs · count) 37
  57. KingPenguin (talk · contribs · count) 34
  58. Geo.plrd (talk · contribs · count) 20
  59. Rmrfstar (talk · contribs · count) 19
  60. LiniShu (talk · contribs · count) 11
  61. CloudNine (talk · contribs · count) 1
  62. Wai Hong (talk · contribs · count) 1

What's Been Done So Far

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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.