1) Gap:
I do agree it would be good to promote these backlogs, as two of the
easiest ones for newcomers to work on. (Although there are guidelines and
best-practices, and any backlog promotion should clearly point to those
documentation pages, so that newcomers can have a ready-reference).
2) Translation
I also agree that a machine-translation /suggestion/ or /hint/ would be a
nice option. The main concern is users who don't understand the limitations
of machine-translation and whom must resist the urge to just copy&paste.
(This goes for both language-fluency, but also for technical-vocabulary
fluency, e.g. I could not give a confident description of most chemistry or
physics articles, even with numerous machine-translation-based suggestions
or the article itself!)
I can't see anything specifically about this in Phabricator, so it's
probably worth filing a feature request, unless someone else points out a
task I missed, or raises an overwhelming concern. [Note: a semi-related
task to link in the SeeAlso of the new one: T71345]
3) Tools:
Is it currently possible to get a list of items without a label/description
in language X?
I tried a few weeks ago, and the onwiki Special pages were broken. I filed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157884 "Nothing loads on
Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription
or Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel results" to cover this problem.
Ah, I now see
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/? which works
for missing descriptions.
However the "with missing labels" set of links seems to be broken for most
languages. Sjoerd filed
https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-todo/issues/45/terminator-top-1…
and I've added some example links.
The other set of links that are listed, are all outdated (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Labels_and_descriptions#…
and below)
I wonder if we should add a link to
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=23 ("Kaspar's
Persondata game: Descriptions") in that list? AFAIK it only contains
English suggestions though.
Are there any other tools which help with listing or processing these
particular backlogs?
Quiddity
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