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Welcome to WikiProject Effective Altruism. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics relevant to effective altruism. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

Goals

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Our goal is to improve and create articles on topics relevant to effective altruism. Our WikiProject scope includes people and organizations which identify with effective altruism. It also includes topics such as neglected tropical diseases which are perceived by a substantial portion of the effective altruism community to be relevant to doing good effectively. If you would like to create a new article, please ensure that the topic meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.

Accomplishments

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Good articles

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Open tasks

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Prioritisation of articles for improvement or creation

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Improving or creating some Wikipedia articles can easily be 1,000x more socially valuable than others. Therefore, prioritisation is crucial. From the linked article: "The key factors to consider for prioritisation are (i) pageviews, (ii) audience, (iii) topic, (iv) room for improvement, and (v) language."

Pageviews: Wikipedia:WikiProject Effective Altruism/Article pageviews is an overview of EA-related Wikipedia articles sorted by their number of pageviews to help you prioritise. To find article pageview numbers, use the Pageview Analysis tool.

Topic: All else equal, prioritise improving articles that rate higher on this WikiProject's importance scale, especially the "top importance articles" and the "high importance article".

Scope

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Example pages

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Editing advice

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Article status

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Pages by importance:


 Top  High  Mid  Low  NA  ??? 
  2    33    119    66    61    27  

Pages by class/quality:


 FA A GABCStartStub FLListCategoryDisambigDraftFilePortalProjectTemplateNA???
10445124626004303501662 

Participants

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Userboxes

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See Template:User WP Effective Altruism for instructions to add one of the following userboxes to your user page:

Signature list

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Articles

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Featured content

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Candidates

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New articles

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Please feel free to list your new Effective Altruism-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Suggestions should be made within 7 days after the article is created.

Review and assessment

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Assessment

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Assessment

By assessing each article's quality and importance, we can keep tabs on which articles are most in need of improvement—high-importance, low-quality articles. Wikipedia:Assessing articles and Wikipedia:Content assessment provide guidelines on how to assess an article's quality and importance.

This table from Wikipedia:Assessing articles summarizes the different class ratings:

Class Coverage Prose & style
Stub Very little meaningful content May be incomprehensible
Start Some meaningful content, but most readers will need more May need improvements to organisation, grammar, spelling, writing style, jargon use and citations
C Still major gaps, but useful to a casual reader May have problems with clarity, balance, flow, bias or original research.
B Mostly complete, may not satisfy a serious student or researcher Reasonably well-written
A Essentially complete, very useful to readers Well-written, clear, well referenced

Many pages have been rated as start-class by other WikiProjects when in fact they satisfy a C-class rating. Sometimes, this can be because the assessment is outdated. As Wikipedia:Assessing articles writes, "Assessments are useful if done right, but are often done wrong. Many articles are given lower quality or importance ratings than they merit based on the criteria. A common mistake is to assess short articles as stub or start class even when there is nothing more to be said about the subject, and longer articles as B (or higher) class even when there is much more to be said."

There are four main categories of an article's importance: top, high, mid, and low. An article's importance is independent of its quality. When assessing an article's importance, you can consider the following questions:

  • From the perspective of effective altruism, how important is it to have a high-quality article on Wikipedia on this topic? If you were writing a textbook on effective altruism, how important would it be to cover the article's subject in the textbook?
  • How many views has the article received? You can view this information by clicking "Page information" on the sidebar on the left. Articles that are more widely read are more important.
  • How relevant is the article's subject to effective altruism? How much of the article's content is relevant?

TODO: write a rubric for top, high, mid, and low importance, maybe something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Unitarian Universalism work group#Importance scale

Please list articles to be assessed here:

Peer review

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Peer review

Statistics

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Categories

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To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Effective altruism (3 C, 12 P)
Organizations associated with effective altruism (1 C, 31 P)
People associated with effective altruism (34 P)
Works about effective altruism (2 C, 1 P)
To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence (48 P)

Templates

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{{User WP Effective Altruism}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Effective Altruism.
{{User effective altruism}}
This user is interested in effective altruism.

Barnstar

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The Effective Altruism Barnstar
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Resources

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Useful Wikipedia tools

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  • Pageviews Analysis: allows you to compare pageviews by article, language, and user.
  • XTools: useful bundle of data analysis tools for Wikipedia.
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