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A WikiProject (or Wikiproject) is the organization of a 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.〔Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, ''How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it'' (2008), p. 213.〕〔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".〕 WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and Wikisource. 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's WikiProject Medicine, "to improve the reliability and accessibility of Wikipedia medical information online".〔Press Release, "(Cochrane announces partnership initiative with WikiProject Medicine )" (February 11, 2014).〕 Wikipedia has hundreds of WikiProjects, primarily divided between specific topical areas and performing specific maintenance tasks.〔〔 One task commonly performed by topical WikiProjects in Wikipedia is the assessment of the quality of articles that fall within that topic area.〔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.〕 In Wikipedia and sister projects, WikiProject pages are located in project space,〔 and the meta information regarding the association between the article and the WikiProject is usually included on the talk page of the article.〔 WikiProjects provide an additional avenue for engagement between editors with similar interests, and have thereby been found to increase the productivity of such editors.〔 In order to spur participation and concentrate effectiveness, WikiProjects in Wikipedia may engage in activities like having a "collaboration of the week",〔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".〕 or designating one article to be improved to the point of achieving "featured" status.〔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".〕 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, and concluding: ==WikiProjects and assessments of article importance and quality== The English Wikipedia currently has over 2,000 WikiProjects, with varying degrees of activity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wikipedia: Wikiprojects )〕 In 2007, in preparation for producing a print version, the English Wikipedia introduced an assessment scale of the quality of articles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment )〕 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", "good article" or the highest, "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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Comparing featured article groups and revision patterns correlations in Wikipedia )〕 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 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.〔Poderi, Giacomo, ''Wikipedia and the Featured Articles: How a Technological System Can Produce Best Quality Articles'', Master thesis, University of Maastricht, October 2008.〕 A 2010 study found unevenness in quality among featured articles and concluded that the community process is ineffective in assessing the quality of articles. ''(The table above (prepared by the 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). )'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WikiProject」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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