[Wikipedia-l] Lists of articles to monitor subject areas - a proposal

[Tim Marklew]

>We need a way to compile, based on lists of links
>(I guess),
>"Recent Changes" lists for all articles about a
>general topic.
>
>This has been doable since Magnus's software, and
>still is; the
>hard work is just compiling the list of links.

I've just had a go at compiling one of these lists, a list of articles on 
economics at [[Economics articles (master list)]].  I think the page will be 
useful, for me if noone else! I thought I was already watching pretty much 
all the economics articles, but I uncovered a few more gems that I didn't 
know about.

As Wikipedia gets bigger, I think categorisations like this will be 
increasingly necessary - with 3000+ changes per day, scanning all of the 
recent changes for articles that interest you is becoming an activity for 
die-hard Wikipediholics only.

We could quite easily ensure that all pages get categorised like this, 
provided of course that we put in the hard work.  By running a query on the 
database, we could generate a page of "Articles that haven't been 
categorised yet" (in a similar way to the pages like [[Wikipedia:Most wanted 
stubs]].  In this way, we could ensure that all new articles get put on a 
categorisation page, and hence come to the attention of the experts who 
monitor the "watch links" on that page.

Let me know if you would be interested in putting these lists together - if 
we have a few volunteers I will put the "Articles that haven't been 
categorised yet page" idea into practice.

Tim (Enchanter)

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