Actually, I would implement "hot articles" per WikiProject. So, for example, you could see the 5 articles under WikiProject Arthropods that had been edited the most in the past week. That should scale well. In fact, I would probably redesign Wikipedia to be WikiProject-based from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought. Like when you first sign up for an account it asks you which WikiProjects you want to join, etc. and there are cool extensions for earning points and awards within WikiProjects (that don't require learning how to use templates).
Ryan Kaldari On 12/29/10 3:49 PM, Soxred93 wrote: > Of course, you have to remember that Wikipedia is a top 10 website. Wikia is > a top 200 website. "hot article"s just don't scale that well to a wiki like > Wikipedia. It's fundamentally flawed. > > On the flip side, an Etherpad-like feature would be nice. > > -X! > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > >> I would steal some of the better ideas from Wikia like the "hot article" >> lists, user polls, user avatars, and throw in some real-time >> collaboration software a la Etherpad. >> >> Ryan Kaldari >> >> On 12/28/10 11:31 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> >>> I've been inspired by the discussion David Gerard and Brion Vibber >>> kicked off, and I think they are headed in the right direction. >>> >>> But I just want to ask a separate, but related question. >>> >>> Let's imagine you wanted to start a rival to Wikipedia. Assume that you >>> are motivated by money, and that venture capitalists promise you can be >>> paid gazillions of dollars if you can do one, or many, of the following: >>> >>> 1 - Become a more attractive home to the WP editors. Get them to work on >>> your content. >>> >>> 2 - Take the free content from WP, and use it in this new system. But >>> make it much better, in a way Wikipedia can't match. >>> >>> 3 - Attract even more readers, or perhaps a niche group of >>> super-passionate readers that you can use to build a new community. >>> >>> In other words, if you had no legacy, and just wanted to build something >>> from zero, how would you go about creating an innovation that was >>> disruptive to Wikipedia, in fact something that made Wikipedia look like >>> Friendster or Myspace compared to Facebook? >>> >>> And there's a followup question to this -- but you're all smart people >>> and can guess what it is. >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
