I believe it is necessary to develop an article level system similarly to Wikipedia for the following reasons:
- We can clearly map out which articles need to be written and assign importancies/priorities to those articles.
- We can standardize which components an article on each level should have and therefore make it easy for people to add to articles and participate.
- We can clearly communicate to which level of depth a topic needs to be researched in stage 1.
In Wikipedias Level System Level 1 is the highest while 5 is the lowest. I tend to think that this is not going to be intuitive for our community and we should therefore switch the order.
Here is a first orientation how different Levels could look
- Level 0: Uncompleted/draft articles
- Level 1: Very short article containing the most important numbers of a topic to get a first sense/orientation for it and put it broadly into perspective. e.g. Euro Zone Inflation - InvestmentWiki, Retail sales - InvestmentWiki
- Level 2: More comprehensive assesments taking more factors into account e.g. Liquidity - InvestmentWiki
- Level 3: Strong solid article.e.g. Consumer Price Index - InvestmentWiki, 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis - InvestmentWiki
- Level 4: No priority for now. Very sophisticated article
- Level 5: No priority for now. Almost perfect article.
@Magaly @Aron What are your general thoughts about an article level system? The above levels are just a very rough overview which we would need to refine over time. As i am not as involved with writing articles i believe it should be in your responsibility to create a first draft of a ground framework which exact components should be part of each level which we can then discuss.
In general i imagine the Level system to be a description of the depth and sophistication of an article rather then it’s length. So a Level 1 article of a smaller side topic should be shorter than a Level 1 article of an important comprehensive topic.