One of the main tasks of the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's SFBA articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the Wikipedia:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:San Francisco Bay Area articles by quality. WP:1.0 then produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed, reassessed, and renamed. (a log showing older assessments exists here).