The main obstacle I see here is that different language Wikipedias have 
differing notability standards, which is inevitable given the different 
cultures. I’m not sure how you’d account for that.

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> On Sep 22, 2024, at 6:01 AM, Amir Sarabadani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The topics in whattodo? They are English Wikipedia's wikiprojects but that's 
> just a tool to help find important articles. Many other tools can be used 
> too. The ranking I'm proposing doesn't rely on topics. 
> 
> Best
> 
> 
> Am So., 22. Sept. 2024 um 14:19 Uhr schrieb Amir E. Aharoni 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> What are the topics? Is it all the times in Wikidata or something curated?
>> 
>> בתאריך יום א׳, 22 בספט׳ 2024, 08:11, מאת Amir Sarabadani 
>> ‏<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>> Hi,
>>> (sorry I couldn't find a better place to post this)
>>> I wrote a proposal in meta to add a new way to rank wikis (along side other 
>>> rankings). There are more details and result of the measurement in 
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/coverage_ranking_of_Wikipedia_languages
>>> 
>>> TLDR is that it penalizes a wiki for not having an article that exists in 
>>> other language, the higher the number of wikis that has the article, the 
>>> higher the penalty would be, either power of two or power of three (to be 
>>> decided) of that number. Then wikis with lower penalty rank higher.
>>> 
>>> This incentivizes wikis to create articles in topics that matter and would 
>>> be read by our readers.
>>> 
>>> I would appreciate your feedback on the talk page of the proposal. Also, if 
>>> this needs to be brought up in some other venues as well, it would be 
>>> amazing if I'm told where, so I can bring it up.
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
>>> -- 
>>> Amir (he/him)
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