Would be useful to have a link to these tools from the Content
Translation tool IMO.

J

On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 7:24 PM Ndahiro Derrick Alter
<ndahiroder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot, Amir, The tool is so important,  In fact, I am now using it to 
> find and create articles on English Wikipedia related to Gender Studies which 
> are missing on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia.
>
> Best regards
>
> On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 01:24, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
> <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Really good and useful, Amir.
>> In the last years we have developed some similar tools, and the problem I 
>> see is about discoverability. How could we make this kind of tools extremely 
>> easy to find, and not something external that you must search for? 
>> Personally, I think that the user menu could be a great place to have these 
>> kinds of tools which make finding topics to edit easier. While I can't find 
>> a perfect solution, it would be great to know if the product team is 
>> thinking on a way to integrate the miriad of tools.
>>
>> Thanks again for the tool
>>
>> Galder
>> ________________________________
>> From: James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 12:57 AM
>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in 
>> non-English Wikipedias
>>
>> Very nice Amir. We have built a somewhat similar tool specifically to
>> help guide translation of healthcare related content
>>
>> https://mdwiki.toolforge.org/Translation_Dashboard/index.php
>>
>> Some of the additional functionality is that it integrates with the
>> content translation tool, automatically collects data around the
>> number of translations completed to create a leaderboard, and fixes /
>> makes a bunch of minor adjustments after the translation is done.
>>
>> Our tool is based on categories, rather than an entire Wikiproject, as
>> we wanted the ability to manually determine which articles are on the
>> English side of the list. This allows us to make sure the English
>> content is of high quality before it is proposed for translation.
>>
>> Best
>> James
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:31 AM 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 personally 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)
>> >
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