> If it is a reason for some to create many useless pseudo articles - that is a > poor incentive.
If it motivates people to create an “article writing” bot, the articles are going to be that much more useless to the Wikipedia reader. The English Wikipedia community is perhaps the largest, and yet, there are still many, many abandoned articles left to rot. From, I dream of horses She/her > On Sep 23, 2024, at 5:14 AM, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > Here, I very much agree with Gerard here. The ultimate goal should be > to create a great offer to readers. Content relevance and content > quality is key. I tried to explain that in this video: > https://youtu.be/a3T5_7C_BtI?si=XuNsRBJ5gbm2V2Ja > > When it comes to the ranking of Wikipedia language versions... it > would be the question why we should do that anyway. If it is a reason > for some to create many useless pseudo articles - that is a poor > incentive. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > > > Am Mo., 23. Sept. 2024 um 13:57 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hoi, >> The relation between coverage is a two way street. When the bigger Wikipedia >> does not cover what is important given existing articles, the usefulness of >> that bigger Wikipedia is not great. This implies that translations of >> content will not necessarily improve the usefulness of the smaller Wikipedia. >> Thanks, >> Gerard >> >> On Sun, 22 Sept 2024 at 14:10, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> (sorry I couldn't find a better place to post this) >>> I wrote a proposal in meta to add a new way to rank wikis (along side other >>> rankings). There are more details and result of the measurement in >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/coverage_ranking_of_Wikipedia_languages >>> >>> TLDR is that it penalizes a wiki for not having an article that exists in >>> other language, the higher the number of wikis that has the article, the >>> higher the penalty would be, either power of two or power of three (to be >>> decided) of that number. Then wikis with lower penalty rank higher. >>> >>> This incentivizes wikis to create articles in topics that matter and would >>> be read by our readers. >>> >>> I would appreciate your feedback on the talk page of the proposal. Also, if >>> this needs to be brought up in some other venues as well, it would be >>> amazing if I'm told where, so I can bring it up. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> -- >>> 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/2VKAUHPTXW5C6ZCM4PSUMUW2DLH2JPNU/ >>> 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/QYIILIVDQXC7UUEJX2KHRWO6PIGFBZRV/ >> 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/WS4CCTT2TPKX3CJSO6LQLBYYCQMPTD5S/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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