Well of course it is impossible for me to peek in the kitchens of all other Wikipedia article creators, but speaking for myself, I don't blindly type into a blank editing window but prepare the way forward by knitting a sweater of edits, generally across various projects, including other language Wikipedias. I of course use Google to do the heavy lifting, often triggered by some annoying incorrect thing I heard from Siri/Alexa, but it could also be something inspiring I got off social media that made me curious. I rarely go from inspiration to page creation in one go, and the whole process sometimes takes me years. In the course of my tenure as a Wikipedia editor, I have built up quite a library of random articles, though most of them are related in some way to Dutch 17th century art. Since becoming active on Wikidata, I have also built quite a library of listeria lists in my userspace and elsewhere to check related edits across projects and these sort of drown out everything else in my watchlists unless I select a specific namespace only. In general, an article in my process moves from "quote in Wikitext somewhere" to "quote+cited source(s) in Wikitext somewhere" to "quote+cited source(s)+media file in Wikitext somewhere", to "quote+cited source(s)+Commons category for media file(s) in Wikitext somewhere" before it ever sees the light of day as a stand-alone article. These "pipeline nuggets" are often also line items in lists (thus my first explanation), but most of them are not. Once created, my articles are not orphans, but have a select number of incoming links that I also try to keep track of. Aside from my own personal "article pipeline", I also spend time de-orphanizing and interlinking such nuggets in existing articles and I would love to be able to watch them all in two-way linked stereo, but that is impossible today.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:57 AM Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > I would see more items to watchlist, as in place of one large item you > would have all the components to worry about. > I don't follow the easier to de-orphanise aspect. > Also don’t see how having to have the reference section on half a dozen > sub-articles is simpler than having the whole list on one. In the extreme > case where no reference is used in multiple sections, it would be roughly > the same, where a reference is used across several sections, which is > common, it looks like more work: from a little more, to a lot more. > Unless I misunderstand your meaning... > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Jane Darnell > Sent: 31 December 2018 10:41 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent? > > 1) Not that I know of, 2) not that I know of, 3) fewer items to watchlist > and maintain (if one creates them), easier to de-orphanize articles, and > easier to curate pieces of large wikipages where it's hard to check the > relevant used references. > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:14 AM Peter Southwood < > peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > > > Does the technology exist? Is it available? > > How does this splitting make maintenance easier? > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > > Behalf Of Jane Darnell > > Sent: 30 December 2018 15:42 > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent? > > > > Well it is not difficult to imagine when you consider for example line > > items in the case of list articles. Many lists could be split into such > > line items and kept in a static assembled form by some sort of "assembly > > template". Many of these line items are either articles or parts of > > articles. Such "line items" may or may not have Wikidata items, may or > may > > not be suitable for Wikidata items, and may or may not be able to be > > structured in any way, shape or form than the one they currently have. I > > would like to be able to address these "line items" as "findable editing > > snippets" in the wikiverse, possibly curatable by voice activation, > > reversing the way we can sometimes get them read to us by Siri/Lexa. > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 1:48 PM Peter Southwood < > > peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > > > > > Jane, > > > I do not understand what parts you would split these things into, or > how > > > they would make Wikipedia easier to curate and edit. Could you link to > an > > > explanation or clarify the concept? > > > Cheers, > > > Peter > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > https://www.avg.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
