Sandbox

This wikiproject is a group of editors who aim to improve the reliability and accuracy of pages relating to the topics of the DNS, Internet Governance, the domain name industry, Cybersecurity, Web3 technologies, and IoT. If you would like to contribute, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the community portal, and see the to-do list, below.

Scope

This WikiProject is a collaboration to improve articles relating to ICANN and internet governance more broadly We strive for a diverse editor base and aquatic science topics to help combat problems on wikis.

Goals

Improve articles within the scope of the project through [1] and NPOV editing. Article quality goals

Editing advice

• Helpful tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia pages
• Essay about editing Wikipedia for research scientists
• Tips for how to create a new article
• The Wikipedia Adventure - a fun, interactive tour on the basics of editing (15 badges to collect en route)
• The Teahouse - a friendly and welcoming help desk for new users to seek advice on editing.

Open tasks

WikiProject cleanup listing

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Make sure you have created your userpage with a brief description of yourself as well as your user talk page.

1. Jessica (talk) 12:21, 8/19/2022; project sandbox

Templates

Any templates used by or applicable to the project. (Project banner, infoboxes, navboxes, userboxes, barnstars).

Tagging articles

Specifying the article class quality (e.g. stub, start, b, etc..) and the importance (e.g. top, high, mid, low) will help us keep track of articles that need the most improvement.

Stub sorting

These templates can be placed at the end of articles to help categorize articles that need some work. 'Stubs' are articles that have just a few sentences and need expansion.

Barnstar

An award that can be placed at another user's talk for improving articles.

Review and assessment

Assessment

Adopted from WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology statistics page. The standard system on wikipedia is for each article to be assigned two grades: one for completeness and another for significance. These grades as assigned to talk page. If you have improved an article, you may adjust the entry in the template yourself, or you may simply put a remark in the talk page that improvements have been done.

Quality scale

Class is determined by how well written an article is based on completeness, clarity and referencing. Articles typically are slowly improved up the levels until they reach A-Class, at which point they go through a more thorough review process with strict criteria to become Good Articles (GA) and Featured Articles (FA).

• FA — Among the best articles that Wikipedia has to offer. These articles have been through an extensive review process to meet the highest standards.
• GA — Articles that have been reviewed and meet the good article standards.
• A — Excellent articles of a length suitable for the subject that provide a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic.
• B — Articles that contain most of the necessary material but have significant gaps, missing elements or references.
• C — Articles that are missing important content, contains irrelevant material, or are poorly referenced.
• Start — Articles that have a meaningful amount of good content, but are still weak in many areas, possibly lacking a key element such as a standard infobox.
• Stub — Articles that are either very short or rough collections of information that will need much work.

Importance scale

Article significance is based loosely on how aware the ICANN Community is of the topic, and therefore how likely they are to consult ICW.

• Top — Subjects that are first closely examined in high school or earlier or that receive significant attention in the media.
• High — Subjects that are generally examined at university or are briefly mentioned at the high school level.
• Mid — Subjects that are examined at later years of university courses.
• Low — Obscure subjects that are important to researchers in the specific field.

Categories

• Add _____ to the categories on your userpage.