Bamyers99's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPULARLOWQUALITY weekly list linked from the Community Portal "Help out" section addresses the issue directly, thanks to ORES. It would be great if that were adopted by the Foundation for Wikipedias other than English.
Also, the links from the numbers on WP:BACKLOG which used to sort the backlog categories by pageviews are broken again. I thought Dispenser's categorder got moved to Toolforge years ago, but apparently it's no longer maintained? On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 5:53 AM Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > בתאריך יום א׳, 10 במרץ 2019 ב-23:27 מאת Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > > > Hoi, > > I have been thinking about it.. There is a place for research but really > > why can we not have the data that allows us to seek out what people are > > actually looking for and do not find.. Why can we not promote what proves > > to be of interest [1] ? > > > > Actually, there was some work done around it. Here are some examples: > > 1. The Discovery (Search) team in the Foundation researched searches in > Wikimedia sites' search box that yielded zero results. This was done in > 2016 or so, led by Dan Garry as the product manager, and this lead to some > improvements in the functionality of Wikimedia sites' internal search > engine, although I don't remember what they were exactly. > > 2. Google's Project Tiger provided lists of articles for which people often > search in the Google search engine in India, and about which there are no > articles in Wikipedias in languages of India. See > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program > > 3. Last year I made a list of articles that people search for in their > language using the interlanguage links search box and cannot find. You can > see a sample here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/WEIRD/2018-04-09%E2%80%932018-04-15 > . I plan to make this list nicer-looking and auto-updating some time soon. > > 4. The GapFinder project is another tool that helps people find articles > that are missing in some wikis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GapFinder > > 5. This is just an idea, but it's written down, which is a bit better than > nothing: Show the most popular articles by country in the PageViews tool, > rather than just by language. It's documented at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207171 . The rationale for this is that > the most popular English Wikipedia articles in the U.S., Nigeria, India, > the Philippines, and South Africa are significantly different. The English > Wikipedia is the most popular one in all these countries, but whereas it is > sensible that it's popular in the U.S., it's a bit depressing that it's > also the most popular in the other four countries, even though languages > other than English are spoken there. The reason for this situation is, of > course, that there is little content in the Wikipedias in the languages of > these countries, and knowing what the most popular articles are can help > people who write in these languages choose how to write that will be > useful, and will hopefully raise the popularity of Wikipedias in these > languages. The same is true for the most popular Russian Wikipedia articles > in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova, the most popular French Wikipedia articles in > Benin and Mali, etc. This is only an idea, but maybe it will be implemented > some day. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > 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>
