I wrote my Bachelor's thesis on "Generating Article
Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia: Increasing Access to Free and
Open Knowledge". The thesis summarizes a lot of the work done on the
ArticlePlaceholder extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder )
I continue working on the extension and aim to deploy it to the first Wikipedias, that are interested, in the next months.
I am happy to answer questions related to the extension!
Great work on something that I believe has a lot of promise - thanks! I really think this approach has a lot of promise to help take back some readership from Google, and potentially in the long-run drive more new editors as well. (I know that was part of the theory of LSJbot, though I don't know if anyone has actually a/b tested that.)
I was somewhat surprised to not see data collection discussed in Section 8.10 - are there plans to do that? I would have expected to see a/b testing discussed as part of the deployment methodology, so that it could be compared both to the current baseline and also to similar approaches (like the ones you survey in Section 3).
Thanks again for the hard work here-
Luis