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) > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
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