I wondering if Google would be willing to share that sort of data with us? That would be useful for certain languages definitely.
J On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:48 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Wikimania in Gdansk someone from Google gave an interesting if somewhat > controversial presentation on search improvements this way. > > From my memory of the presentation - it was a few years ago; For several > languages including some Indic ones, I think Bangla and Telegu, Google had > listed the 500 most common search terms that didn't have a Wikipedia > article. > > They had then paid some translators to translate articles from English into > those languages. > > This had become controversial because it resulted in a number of articles > on Hollywood film stars, and at least one of the editors in those wikis > didn't think that people who spoke his language were interested in > Hollywood filmstars. Also the people writing those articles didn't behave > as if cooperating with the community was part of their remit. One language, > it may have been Bangla, actually blocked the translators. > > But logically the less complete a Wikipedia the more likely it is to have > search terms that we could create articles for. > > I could even buy the idea that few of the unsuccessful searches on English > have an obvious article. > > But for smaller Wikipedias this would be a useful tool to promote growth > and to be more reader focussed. > > If the list was only made available as a deleted list so only admins could > read it then that should resolve the issues of some searches being terms we > wouldn't want to publicly list. > > WSC > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > 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> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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>
