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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/5VOM5VRRWZSWCW3XBNBSIS3DLQ5CTYJL/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/AZA3HT65I5HXQWBBOMHLZHKMDZYHYGJ3/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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