Collection assessment template
This page contains a set of columns you can paste into a spreadsheet or use in your tracking tool of choice while following the Documentation Collection audit process.
 | The tables on this page are available in a Google spreadsheet you can copy and use as a template for your tracking doc. |
Survey[edit]
In Step 2, you populate your spreadsheet or tracking mechanism with pages or docs. For that step, you only need a doc identifier (usually URL).
Prioritize[edit]
Data points for Step 3.
| Prioritize | Prioritize | Prioritize |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance: is this page clearly part of the collection of docs in scope for your team/project, or is it out of scope? | Use Special:WhatLinksHere to assess the page's incoming links and redirects. Determine ranges that make sense for grouping your content into a few buckets like "many links", "some links", "few links". | Pageviews in last year: many, some, few, none? |
Assess[edit]
Data points for Step 4.
Information overload[edit]
| Info overload: Audience focus | Info overload: Audience focus | Info overload: Content duplication | Info overload: Content duplication | Info overload: Too much content | Info overload: Too much content |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intended audience | Is all content on the page appropriate for the intended audience? (yes/no) | Is some of the content covered elsewhere? Check this by doing some searches across multiple wikis (wikitech, meta, mediawiki) and our open source docs at https://doc.wikimedia.org/, and Github/Gerrit/Gitlab. | Is your impression that the duplicate content be included in OR removed from your docs? (Don't overthink it at this point.) | Page length | Link overload |
Information gaps[edit]
| Info gaps: Content freshness | Info gaps: Content freshness | Info gaps: Missing content |
|---|---|---|
| At first glance, how correct and accurate is the content on a scale of 1 (fresh) to 5 (completely outdated). Note: last revision date doesn't correlate directly with freshness. | If score is 3 or above, is your first instinct that most of the content should be: deleted OR updated? (Again, don't overthink this, just give your initial reaction.) | Review for missing features, Talk page questions, coverage of prerequisite knowledge, and essential contact info. |
Maintenance status[edit]
| Maintenance status | Maintenance status | Maintenance status |
|---|---|---|
| Phabricator tasks review | Last revision | Revision frequency |
| The tables on this page are available in a Google spreadsheet you can copy and use as a template for your tracking doc. |