Board Thread:New Features/@comment-4812180-20140712094154/@comment-452-20140712132909

I don't understand what you mean by "mass applied to all articles in certain category".

Yes, a poll is not a good solution, because that only gives you subjective "votes", rather than a solid objective overview of the development of the article.

The first thing you need to do is decide what factors you want to use to "rate" an article. Decide what elements "good" articles should have. Perhaps also a list of things "good" articles shouldn't have.

Then you make a template, using those rating factors as parameters, and count those parameters to give the article a "score". (If you include a list of negatives, you obviously take that away from the score.)

But you would to have to add the template and rate each article manually.

Perhaps you could also scoring it "out of" something related to the subject of a wiki. Such as "This article is rated 15 out of 20 zombie corpses" or whatever.