Hi Anupamdutta73 and everyone, That's a great question, there are a lot of ways you could arrive at such a list: below I share a two part series of trainings that we ran as part of WikiForHumanRights and more work on the Campaign Programs team at the Foundation.
In part 1, I look at simple tools similar to the one created by Amir: I hope that you check out the video <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_2023_session_on_Tools_for_Finding_the_Right_Articles_Recording_in_English.webm> or slide deck <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_English_Slide_Deck_for_Tools_for_Finding_the_Right_Articles.pdf> . In particular, I want to highlight a tool from the Wikimedia Research Team that suggests "related articles" based on three different language agnostic models <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Language-Agnostic_Topic_Classification> (similar links, similar words, and similar and read in similar reader sessions <https://wikinav.toolforge.org/>) : https://list-building.toolforge.org/ -- you can use this tool to find "similar" in the articles from the topic area, in order to create your own WikiProject of sorts. For example, if I am interested in working in something related to a topic without a WikiProject (let's say Sustainable Agriculture), this would be the query <https://list-building.toolforge.org/?lang=en&title=Sustainable_agriculture&k-results=100>, that could then be shared in a list format on Pagepile <https://pagepile.toolforge.org/api.php?action=get_data&id=51842> or Petscan <https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?pagepile=51842> . You could then take this list, and prioritize by criteria like Amir highlights (i.e. interwikilinks) or Pageviews (see on Massviews <https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/?source=pagepile&target=51842>), or any of the various flexibility you have with Petscan like article size. The tool can be started with either Wikidata or a Wikipedia article in any language. In part 2 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_2023_Capacity_Building_on_Building_Article_List_with_Petscan.webm>, I highlight Petscan. Petscan has historically been the tool for discovering "related" topics, but is slightly harder to use than these simpler tools, you should definitely check out the training <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_2023_Capacity_Building_on_Building_Article_List_with_Petscan.webm> or slide deck <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Brief_(or_not_so_brief)_introduction_to_Petscan.pdf>. I am in the process of turning that training into something more flexible and useful than a 2 hour video. The challenge with Petscan is that it relies on previous human curation (categories and Wikidata), which means that if you are approaching a new topic, sometimes you can't get very good suggestions or it inherits the biases of previous editors. Cheers, Alex On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 8:51 AM Anupam Dutta <anupamdutt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > The idea is a great one. But one major drawback is the drop-down menu.... > With the list of articles getting fixed, many articles will be left out.... > So there should be the option of writing the name of the article instead > of selection. > > While another option must be added to choose the "most important articles" > of the region. > > Regards > > > > > *Anupamdutta73Kolkata India* > > > > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 13:35, Olushola Olaniyan < > olaniyanshol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <ladsgr...@gmail.com> >> 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 -- 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/5VOM5VRRWZSWCW3XBNBSIS3DLQ5CTYJL/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ZC32OOAR3RXAXBQWM5CLGVAI5KYT6C33/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > 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/MRODWX6QZNKSSWXBMHVD23PIYGXVV6RD/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Alex Stinson Lead Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
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