On 6 October 2015 at 14:12, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Thanks for this email.
This raises a wider question: What is the comfortable way to compare the coverage of a topic in different languages?
For example, I'd love to see a report that says:
Number of articles about UNESCO cultural heritage: English Wikipedia: 1000 French Wikipedia: 1200 Hebrew Wikipedia: 742 etc.
And also to track this over time, so if somebody would work hard on creating articles about UNESCO cultural heritage in Hebrew, I'd see a trend graph.
There's two general approaches to this:
a) On Wikidata b) On the individual wikis
Approach (a) would rely on having a defined set of things in Wikidata that we can identify. For example, "is a World Heritage Site" would be easy enough, since we have a property explicitly dealing with WHS identifiers (and we have 100% coverage in Wikidata). "Is of interest to UNESCO" is a trickier one - but if you can construct a suitable Wikidata query...
As Federico notes, for WHS records, we can generate a report like https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=sitestats&catalog=93 (57.4% coverage on hewiki!). No graphs but if you were interested then you could probably set one up without much work.
b) is more useful for fuzzy groups like "of relevance to UNESCO", since this is more or less perfect for a category system. However, it would require examining the category tree for each WP you're interested in to figure out exactly which categories are relevant, and then running a script to count those daily.
A.