On 6 October 2015 at 14:12, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)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.
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