Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Wikipedia 1.0 assessment/reply

To give a fuller explanation:

The en:WP:1.0 team 'owns' the older rating system. There's nothing stopping them from considering AFT ratings (or any other factor they want to consider), but they haven't chosen to incorporate AFT so far.

The 1.0 assessment is a single-editor, per-WikiProject, manual system: You read an article, you decide that it fits (for example) "Start" class, and you type "|class=Start" in the template on the article's talk page. Each WikiProject may only have one rating at a time; my assessment replaces yours. Unlike the AFT ratings, the rating remains until manually changed, no matter how much the article changes in the meantime. Also unlike the AFT ratings, the 1.0 system also permits you to declare a "priority" level. You look at an article and decide that en:Cancer is a hugely important article that no encyclopedia should be without, so you type "|importance=Top" in the template on the talk page. (Alternatively, you look at an article and discover that it's some minor article about a plastic surgeon, so you type "|importance=Low" on the talk page.) The AFT ratings make no effort to determine the relative importance of articles.

These are completely separate, unrelated systems. They have different numbers of people involved, different information that they're collecting, different persistence of ratings, different processes and different purposes. The only similarity is that both systems result in something you could call a rating for the article.