For what it’s worth, I just took a look at:
being the first time I’ve heard about it. The problem I face with that list of people is that there is no way that I can filter it to people within the categories I work in. If I knew there were people from Queensland in the list, I’d happily fix them up (my knowledge of sources for Queensland is good) but I don’t intend to spend time on Swedish poets or military leaders in Senegal (because if you start thinking you can curate the whole of Wikipedia, that way lies madness). Whereas every now and again, I do help out with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Queensland_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data
precisely because it’s within my sphere of interest and expertise. I’m good with Queensland geo-locations. Similarly, I also do some disambiguation using
http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/watchlist_points.py
because that filters articles to those on my watchlist.
I think if we could provide tools to filter these Wikipedia-wide lists/categories where work is needed into:
· Categories
· Projects
· Watchlists
I think it is much more likely people would help out because they could focus on articles on topics they care about.
Kerry
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quality issues
My experience is that pretty much all Wikimedians care about quality, though some have different, even diametrically opposed views as to what quality means and which things are cosmetic or crucial.
My experience of the sadly dormant death anomaly project was that people react positively to being told "here is a list of anomalies on your language wikipedia" especially if those anomalies are relatively serious. My experience of edits on many different languages is that wikipedians appreciate someone who improves articles, even if you don't speak their language. Dismissing any of our thousand wikis as a "black box" is I think less helpful.
One of the great opportunities of Wikidata is to do the sort of data driven anomaly finding that we pioneered with the death anomalies report. But we always need to remember that there are cultural difference between wikis, and not just in such things as the age at which we assume people are dead. Diplomacy is a useful skill in cross wiki work.
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On 20 November 2015 at 07:18, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote: