Hello
I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10
wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes
that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers need a
particular permission for that.
Thanks
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Henning,
If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve
automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human
contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead
links than people willing to replace them.
On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external
links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are just
the pages where somebody's added the Dead link template. There are a lot of
missing references -- not just on English WP, but on all the projects --
and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again.
For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that
information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we can
collect when a new link is added to the page. But I think finding
alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard to
scale.
Danny
PM, Community Tech
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann <
h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net>
wrote:
On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote:
#1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine
(111 support votes)
I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the
quality of Wikipedia.
Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of
looking for
a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved.
b) alternative sources for the same fact.
Ciao Henning
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l