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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/31/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)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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