Very interesting initiative. Although I have translated some interesting articles from the 10k list into Telugu, this scoring gave me captured my interest again and made me to think about working on articles from this list again. Thanks for the mail.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 5:04 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > I want to share with you that the Basque Wikipedia is the fourth language > (after English, Serbian and Catalan) to complete the expanded list of > articles every Wikipedia should have > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have/Expanded>. > We have gone up 10 spots in the list of Wikipedias by expanded sample of > articles > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_expanded_sample_of_articles> > (from 33rd to 23rd) and we think we will go up another couple of > positions when the list is updated in January. You can plot the evolution > in this graph I just made (there is a svg version, if someone wants to mark > their language): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euskarazko_Wikipediaren_sailkapena_2022an.png. > > > This year we decided to improve this list. We had a list of 1.324 articles > to make, and all the other articles to improve, and we divided it by > monthly writing contests. Each month a topic was chosen (January was for > history, February for arts...) and we made an extra contest in December > (ongoing) with the articles that weren't created in the previous 11 months. > Each month three prizes were given, basically gift cards to buy in local > book-stores across the Basque Country (this can be more difficult for > geographically wider languages, but not impossible). The total budget for > the competition was 2.750€, covered with the grant the Basque Government > gives us every year. > > Now we have other goals. The most important one is expanding the shortest > articles, something easy to spot with a PetScan search > <https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=23553331>. Yes, we also added all the > articles to PagePiles and Wikidata, so it is easier to find missing topics > in every language. > > If you want to share our happiness, we are celebrating it on Twitter ( > https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1607678841178427394), Mastodon ( > https://mastodon.eus/@euwikipedia/109585094213814278) and our blog ( > http://wikimedia.eus/2022/12/euskara-4-hizkuntza-wikipedia-guztiek-izan-beharreko-10-000-artikuluak-egiten/). > Feel free to share our joy. > > Best, > > Galder Gonzalez > Basque Wikimedians User Group > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, 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/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QMYRMXBIPDYRCJDM63XKZWVPOYCT4X25/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > -- Pavan Santhosh.
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