In reading my quickly typed up email, I see I made several typos! If anything is unclear I am happy to explain. Sorry; I guess relying on spell checkers is not enough for me :)
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:05 PM Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > At fawiki, this was brought up multiple times. I think there is interest > in incorporating it into the "In The News" section (although we have not > all the articles that enwiki has in that section. The idea of a site notice > that would appear on all pages was mentioned but some (including myself) > are against it. For one thing, site notices can be suppressed, and that can > reduce their effectiveness. For another, site notices are meant to be about > short-term wikimedia-only topics and using it for general informational > purposes is debatable (today we do it for a pandemic, tomorrow for an > election or political purpose? or fundraising for earthquake relief? it can > quickly bubble up or at least lead to lots of length discussions about > valid and invalid use cases; better disallow it outright) > > Lastly, analysis of data from fawiki's main page (which gets ~50K views a > day) shows that taking something to the main page only increases its daily > page views by about a few hundred times a day. Those pages are topic of the > day (like COVID-19 pages right now) will get most of their viewership > through other mechanisms, mainly Google searches. To assume that > Wikipedia's "main page" is the starting page for a large group of users, or > when they go to find new information, seems to be inaccurate. Spending time > on improving those articles and letting search engines guide the readers to > those articles seems to be a better use of time. > > I realize my POV may not be popular. I feel like everyone wants to do > "something" right now, and putting stuff on the main page feels like a > thing that can be done and fulfill one's self of accomplishment. But > honestly, I think we're searching for the key where the light is. > > Respectfully, > Huji > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 6:06 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < > nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a >> more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about >> COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The >> News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice banner. >> >> A few existing examples: >> * https://da.wikipedia.org >> * https://de.wikipedia.org/ >> * https://en.wikipedia.org/ >> * https://it.wikipedia.org/ >> * https://ko.wikipedia.org/ >> * https://nl.wikipedia.org/ >> >> Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information in times of >> stress, and I think it's great that some communities are actively assisting >> like this. E.g. Enwiki is getting 900,000+ pageviews each day for their >> main article this week.[1][2] >> >> 1) Question: Does your language community do something else/unique that >> is worth sharing? >> >> 2) Suggestion: If not, you might like to start a discussion with your >> community about adapting one of these ideas above, yourselves. >> >> 3) Reminder: Please let people know if there's anything we can do to >> help, *particularly if your community is small* and doesn't have anyone >> available who can easily change things like Main Page design aspects. You >> can contact other editors for help at >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, or can contact the WMF Web team at >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web. >> >> Best wishes to you all, >> --Quiddity >> >> P.s. There are also some interesting notes being collated at >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coronation >> and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19 >> >> >> [1] [This should be all one link. It's just 10 examples out of the many >> related articles.] >> < >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic >> |Coronavirus_disease_2019|Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2|Social_distancing|Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|COVID-19_testing|Coronavirus|2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory|Misinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic >> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCoronavirus_disease_2019%7CSevere_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2%7CSocial_distancing%7CTimeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCOVID-19_testing%7CCoronavirus%7C2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory%7CMisinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CXenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic> >> > >> >> [2] See also >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-week&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&page=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic >> for just one example article, across many languages, out of the >> dozens-to-hundreds of related articles that many wikis already have. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >
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