Yes indeed. I have left something on that subject on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Reach_out_by_active_promotion_of_content_in_wiki-weak_large_languages
By the way, we have come a little bit far away from the original thread, isn't it? :-) Kind regards Ziko 2009/8/25 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > Hoi, > How does a list of most read articles on any Wikipedia give a clue on what > is of interest in the Swahili Wikipedia ??? Would they really be interested > in subjects like "Sarah Palin" ?? If the idea is to have user driven > content, let it be driven by the community it is written for. It is more > likely that they are interested in an article about Mwai Kibaki or Raila > Odinga and sure enough both gentlemen have their sw.wp article. > > The only way in which you infer information about what might be of interest > for another language is when you look at the articles read from the area > where the language for a particular language is spoken. Another approach to > our data that would be beneficial. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/8/25 Jonathan Hall <[email protected]> > >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:26:18AM +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> <snip> >> > For the second there are two approaches. We create a 100/1000 list of >> must >> > have articles. While there is merit in many of the subjects selected, do >> you >> > really think American Football is relevant in Upper Volta (I do not >> know). >> > The other is write what people want. We do not know what people want. If >> we >> > did we had a list of most looked for articles that could not be found for >> > each project. Now THAT would be user driven and THAT would motivate >> people >> > to write not only the article but possibly also the wiki network around >> such >> > articles. >> Actually, there are no sportspeople and very few sports articles in >> [[meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have]]. That said, some of >> the articles in the philosophy section do tend a little towards the >> abstract - an article on the concept of beauty is all well and good, but >> how often will it actually be looked up. >> >> Maybe we could gain an idea of the sort of articles that are wanted by >> looking at which articles are accessed in other languages with larger >> Wikipedias (en, simple, fr, maybe de would probably be the best ones to >> start with) from IPs in the areas where the language in question is >> spoken. >> >> -- >> Jonathan G Hall <[email protected]> >> OpenPGP KeyID: 0xB3D66A8C >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkqTotEACgkQb6WEh7PWaozODACaA슀꛴憀藤灦땊� >> RBsAniDlg2QSDUoOUgLPVxNubrF3DAB/ >> =UW1I >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
