Thank you, Amir. This tool comes in handy and will be very helpful for the
communities preparing for edit-a+thon.



Thanks a lot for this information.

Cheers.


On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 9:31 PM 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 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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