We at gu.wiki will also be happy testing this. Dhaval (user:dsvyas) On 21 Jan 2016 16:37, "Xuacu" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Lucie, this is Xuacu (User:Oriciu in astwiki) > > I have been talking with some other librarians in Asturian wiki and we > are interested in early ArticlePlaceholder testing. Please, tell us > what we need to do, what kind of feedback you need from us, how can we > get our Wikipedians thoughts on this feature... if possible, in a > not-too-technical language :) > > Regards, > Xuacu Saturio > Usuariu de Linux // Linux user #134680 > https://www.linuxcounter.net/ > > > 2016-01-20 14:57 GMT+01:00 Lucie Kaffee <[email protected]>: > > As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an extension called > > “ArticlePlaceholder” > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the > last > > months. > > > > One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia > provides > > is language. > > > > There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. > People > > who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the > > information available potentially vital to them. > > > > The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support > > them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article > > Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or > other > > mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly not > > actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have an > > article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control > of > > the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults so > > smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the > > technical side of it. > > > > I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace > > > http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopic/Q3 > > > > The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets > results if > > there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or alias. > > > > The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a > topic > > yet, they will still have basic information provided in their language. > But > > it also might increase the numbers of editors due to increased > usefulness of > > that Wikipedia. > > > > We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by > > deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension > and > > the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how it > > evolves. > > > > > > If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We > would > > start it as a beta feature. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > Lucie (Frimelle) > > > > -- > > Lucie-Aimée Kaffee > > Working Student Software Development > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > > http://wikimedia.de > > > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > > sum of all knowledge. > > That‘s our commitment. > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter > > der Nummer 23855 B. > > Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I > Berlin, > > Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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