Thank you Amir

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 10:28 PM Bukola James <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thank you so much Amir, this is super useful for the WikiClimateCampus
> Tour Campaign to help find list of articles related to climate and
> sustainability that participants can translate into their local languages
> in Nigeria.
> Bukola James <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bukky658>
> Community Coordinator,
> Code for Africa <http://codeforafrica.org/> (Knowledge Team/ WiRs
> Initiatives)
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Sept 2023 at 21:31, Amir Sarabadani <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> TLDR: There is now a tool that gives you list of articles to improve or
>> create based on WikiProjects of English Wikipedia. For example, articles of
>> top importance in WikiProject Mathematics that are missing or short in
>> Azeri Wikipedia:
>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=az&topic=Mathematics&importance=Top
>>
>> (I'm sorry for spamming your mailboxes, but I couldn't find a place to
>> bring this up that would be more fitting.)
>>
>> This tool basically gets the list of articles of a given wikiproject of a
>> given importance and tells you which ones are missing are below 10K bytes
>> in the given target language.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>>    - For WikiProject Physics and target of Hungarian Wikipedia, you get
>>    [2] saying article of Speed is missing while existing in 79 wikis and
>>    article of Molekulapálya [3] is the shortest article of this importance
>>    with ~700 bytes.
>>    - For Wikiproject Poland and target of Dutch Wikipedia, you get [1]
>>    saying article of "Ignacy Mościcki" is missing in Dutch Wikipedia while
>>    existing in 38 other languages (and many more articles to create or 
>> improve)
>>    - For Wikiproject Computer Science and target of Vietnamese
>>    Wikipedia, you get [4] saying article of "Alonzo Church" exists in 50
>>    wikipedias but not in Vietnamese Wikipedia (and more articles to create or
>>    improve in field of computer science)
>>    - and many more but you get the idea.
>>
>> It is not perfect, for example the concept of importance and what
>> articles belong to them is not perfect but it's better than nothing.
>>
>> I personally find this useful in events and editathons where a newcomer
>> asks "I'm interested in topic X what can I do?" and you can give them at
>> least something to work on. Or for small or medium wikis to find gaps in
>> their content in given topics.
>>
>> Noting that there are more than 2,800 WikiProjects in English Wikipedia,
>> the topics to pick are quite broad. From Olivia Roderigo [5] to Rome [6] to
>> Soap Operas [7] to Trains [8]. Hope that'd be useful for you.
>>
>> If anyone is feeling comfortable to help maintain or add features to it,
>> please let me know. I wrote this in four or five hours, it's quite basic
>> and more of a PoC of what it could become.
>>
>> [1] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=nl&topic=Poland&importance=Top
>> [2] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&topic=Physics&importance=Top
>> [3] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molekulap%C3%A1lya
>> [4]:
>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=vi&topic=Computer+science&importance=Top
>> [5]
>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Olivia+Rodrigo&importance=Top
>> [6] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Rome&importance=Top
>> [7]
>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Soap+Operas&importance=Top
>> [8] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Trains&importance=Top
>>
>> Best
>> --
>> Amir (he/him)
>>
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