If you are new to assessment in WikiProject India, this article should help you.
In
Part 1 of the Guide, you learned about how to assess articles using the
Wikiproject India talk page template and by filling in the two parameters - "class" and "importance".
Part 2 of this Guide showed you how to add more functionality to the template while assessing an article. If this is incorporated, a single assessment becomes very useful for sorting and earmarking of articles by means of categories.
This part,
Part 3 of the Guide, deals with the AutoWikiBrowser, a semi-automated Windows tool for technically adept editors, while
Part 4 deals with the Assessment Bar, a simple script-based tool which makes assessment easier for technically-challenged editors.
Adding importance using AWB
There are lot of articles assessed without importance. To make a semi-automated assessment, install and make use of
AutoWikiBrowser(AWB). The easiest option is to use the
Kingbotk plugin to speed up assessments. Alternatively you can use Search and Replace :
Load the list of unassessed articles of unknown importance.
Convert the list to talk page using List -> Convert to talk page
Uncheck the auto tag, apply general fixes, unicodify whole page
Click on Enabled Find and Replace in options menu and click on advanced setting.
Steps for Search and Replace.
Enabled — If checked will enable Normal, Advanced, and subst: find and replace.
Normal settings — Opens the AWB Normal Find and replace.
Template substitution — Opens AWB substitute templates. Allows you to
Substitute templates you chose. This is a more convenient and reliable way than simply entering regexes in Find and replace — AWB will automatically generate regexes.
Skip if no replacements — If this box is checked, the page will be skipped if no changes were made by any of the find and replace features (Normal, Advanced and, subst:).
Skip if only minor replacement made — If this box is checked, the page will be skipped if the only changes made were marked as minor in the Normal Find and Replace.
Choose the different patterns/rules based on the assessed talk page contents and replace with the contents adding relevant importance.
Please preview and use this tool with care as it may replace valid entires.