There's a bot that runs through the newpages log to search for articles that are potentially suitable for DYK and there's also a bot that suggests users articles to edit based on their other edits (assuming those edits display the editor's interests. There's no reason why we can't have a bot running that categorizes new articles (either automatically or semi-automatically) and lists them on the relevant project pages.
The question is if we can find programmers to write such a bot and find people to run it 24/7
Mgm
On 3/31/07, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/31/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
This actually fits well with how wikiprojects have evolved, from loose groups with shared interests to well-organized collaborations - so in a sense it's just blessing what so many people are doing already.
Yes. The idea came about from talking to people who mainly edit content, oddly enough. Something which the people who play at running Wikipedia do not do enough of, I am afraid.
I like the idea that *every* article should be associated with one or more projects. As always, we can't *make* anybody do anything, but project people usually want to know about new articles in their areas, and right now the discovery process is haphazard - always disconcerting to find a duplicate article created several months earlier.
The haphazardness is the problem that I really think needs to be dealt with more than anything else. It's always the article that we've overlooked (e.g. [[John Siegenthaler]]) that rises up to bite us.
Kelly
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