ProyekJS

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A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease.<ref name="COVID-19">Laudato, Anthony (May 24, 2020). "The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information". CBS News. </ref> Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by Smithsonian for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000".<ref>Daley, Jason (March 15, 2016). "How a College Student Led the WikiProject Women Scientists". Smithsonian Magazine. </ref>

On Wikipedia

Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue.

Wikipedia has thousands of WikiProjects, primarily divided between specific topical areas and performing specific maintenance tasks.<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="Broughton">Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia – The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. hlm. 165–175. </ref> One task commonly performed by topical WikiProjects on 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 sibling 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">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> In order to spur participation and concentrate effectiveness, WikiProjects on 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 WikiProjects, and acts as a central point for inter-WikiProject discussion and collaboration.

A 2008 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>Burke, Moira; Kraut, Robert (2008). "Taking up the mop". Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '08. hlm. 3441. doi:10.1145/1358628.1358871. ISBN 978-1-60558-012-8.  </ref> and concluding:

ProyekJS dan asesmen urgensi dan kualitas artikel

Pada 2007, Wikipedia berbahasa Inggris mengenalkan asesment dengan skala kualitas artikel.<ref name="WP 1.0 editorial team 1">Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment </ref>Templat:Self-published inline Artikel-artikel tersebut dinilai oleh WikiProjects. Batasan tingkat kualitas dimulai dengan "Rintisan" (halaman dengan isian sangat sedikit), diikuti dengan "Start", "C" and "B" (dalam urutan kualitas). Ulasan dari anggota komunitas dibutuhkan untuk menjadikan sebuah artikel di tingkat terbaik: baik itu tingkat "A", "good article" atau yang tertinggi, "featured article". sekitar 4.4 juta artikel dan telah masuk daftar asasmen pada tahun 2015, sekitar 7,000 (0.16%) dari featured article or a featured list. One featured article per day, as selected by editors, appears on the main page of Wikipedia.<ref name="FMonday feat article patterns 1">Poderi, Giacomo (8 April 2009). "Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in Wikipedia". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v14i5.2365 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. Diakses tanggal July 13, 2010. </ref><ref name="IBM feat articles hidden pattern 1">Fernanda B. Viégas; Martin Wattenberg; Matthew M. McKeon (July 22, 2007). "The Hidden Order of Wikipedia" (PDF). Visual Communication Lab, IBM Research. Diakses tanggal October 30, 2007.  </ref> According to research in 2021, WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has the most quality content in terms of good articles and featured articles. This is unusual, due to the project's narrow scope and member count of only around 100.<ref>Jemielniak, Dariusz; Rychwalska, Agnieszka; Talaga, Szymon; Ziembowicz, Karolina (September 2021). "Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones: The most successful crowd-sourced knowledge project with near real-time coverage of extreme weather phenomena". Weather and Climate Extremes. 33: 100354. Bibcode:2021WCE....3300354J. doi:10.1016/j.wace.2021.100354 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. </ref>

Tiap tulisan juga dapat dinilai urgensinya oleh WikiProjects. Saat ini,Templat:When ada 5 kategori urgensi: "rendah", "sedang", "tinggi", "penting", dan "???" untuk level tanpa klasifikasi/belum jelas. For a particular article, different WikiProjects may assign different importance levels.

The 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 and bar-chart.

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">Lindsey, David (April 5, 2010). "Evaluating quality control of Wikipedia's featured articles". First Monday. 15 (4). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal October 11, 2017. Diakses tanggal January 29, 2017.  </ref>

Pengguna:WP 1.0 bot/WikiWork

All rated articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	SP	P	CP	KP	???	Total
FA	1,527	2,396	2,345	1,826	178	8,272
FL	167	624	705	664	110	2,270
A	342	667	777	563	83	2,432
AB	3,066	6,969	14,143	18,238	1,695	44,111
B	16,036	30,963	50,751	60,386	17,906	176,042
C	16,089	51,303	127,499	276,043	77,671	548,605
Awal	18,587	90,798	404,166	1,507,793	382,788	2,404,132
Rintisan	4,264	31,756	278,469	2,732,305	761,352	3,808,146
Daftar	4,628	16,293	50,936	177,861	57,895	307,613
Templat:Assessed-Class	64,706	231,769	929,791	4,775,679	1,299,678	7,301,623
Unassessed	114	467	1,210	19,314	429,169	450,274
Total	64,820	232,236	931,001	4,794,993	1,728,847	7,751,897

WikiProject Medicine

WikiProject Medicine was formed in 2004 to improve coverage of medicine-related topics.<ref name=Trevena2011>Trevena, L. (2011-06-08). "WikiProject Medicine". BMJ (dalam bahasa English). 342 (jun08 3): d3387. doi:10.1136/bmj.d3387. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 21653617.  </ref><ref name=James2016>James, Richard (October 2016). "WikiProject Medicine: Creating Credibility in Consumer Health". Journal of Hospital Librarianship (dalam bahasa English). 16 (4): 344–351. doi:10.1080/15323269.2016.1221284. ISSN 1532-3269.  </ref><ref name=Murray2015>Murray, Terry (2015-03-03). "WikiProject Medicine making progress". Canadian Medical Association Journal (dalam bahasa English). 187 (4): 245. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4982. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 4347770 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. PMID 25646285. </ref>

A 2011 review of the project's efforts praised it for assessing most medical articles on Wikipedia (at that time about 25,000), at the same time remarking that only around 70 have been assessed as high quality.<ref name=Trevena2011/> The first use of Wikipedia medical content in formal medical education was in 2011.<ref name=smith2020/> A 2014 study found that the frequency of Wikipedia medical topics referenced in medical publications has increased over time since 2010, in spite of recommendations discouraging doctors from using Wikipedia, with the majority provided as definitions or descriptions.<ref name=bould2014>Bould MD, Hladkowicz ES, Pigford AA, Ufholz LA, Postonogova T, Shin E, Boet S (March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. 348: g1585. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. PMC 3944683 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. PMID 24603564. </ref>

A 2016 review written by Wikipedians<ref group="lower-alpha"></ref> stated that the number of high quality articles had improved to about 80.<ref name=shafee/> The review praised the efforts of the volunteers, but said that participation levels are too low to promise any significant improvements in the thousands of lower-quality articles, calling for more medical practitioners to volunteer.<ref name="shafee">Shafee, Thomas; Masukume, Gwinyai; Kipersztok, Lisa; Das, Diptanshu; Häggström, Mikael; Heilman, James (2017-11-01). "Evolution of Wikipedia's medical content: past, present and future". J Epidemiol Community Health. 71 (11): 1122–1129. doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208601. ISSN 0143-005X. PMC 5847101 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. PMID 28847845. </ref><ref group="lower-alpha"></ref> The review also said that readability (complexity) of Wikipedia articles may be too high for its intended audience, and encouraged the Wikipedia volunteers to review this aspect.<ref name=Murray2015/>

CBS News described the role of WikiProject Medicine in content about the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that while "hot topics that get a lot of page views are carefully edited, inaccurate information persists on some of Wikipedia's less-read pages".<ref name=CBS2020>Laudato, Anthony (May 24, 2020). "The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information". CBS News. Diakses tanggal April 3, 2023. </ref> James Heilman told CBS News, "I do not recommend people trust Wikipedia blindly. I think doing so would be silly. Yet, you know, people shouldn't trust other sources of information blindly, either."<ref name= CBS2020/>

According to a review written by a Wikipedia contributor and advocate,<ref group="lower-alpha"></ref><ref group="lower-alpha"></ref> as of 2020, Wikipedia is among the world's most accessed resources for health information by the public, patients, students, and practitioners.<ref name=smith2020>Smith DA (2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. PMC 7028268 alt=Dapat diakses gratis. PMID 32069322. </ref>