Welcome to WikiProject Western New York's assessment department. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Western New York articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Western New York}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Western New York articles by quality and Category:Western New York articles by importance.