Timwi wrote:
Hi.
Yesterday I did this little comparison that Jimmy Wales asked me to
do, to see how large our encyclopedia would be if we covered the same
topics as Columbia.
Among other things, the result revealed that about half of their
article titles do not have corresponding titles on Wikipedia.
My question is whether we want to do something about this (create
redirects). I would like to dump the huge list of article titles we
don't have onto some page in the Wikipedia namespace, and have our
bulk of volunteers work through them and create redirects to the
relevant pages, or mark some as "we *really* don't have something
about this topic" if applicable.
Would such an effort be warranted?
Tools that give us an idea of things that still need to be done are
almost always helpful. Creating a long series of redirects, however,
does not seem helpful. It would be better to leave them alone fo
people who are looking for something to work on. Undoubtedly, as when
we have simply used a different title or title format, a redirect will
be the appropriate course of action, but these decisions should all be
on a one-by-one, hands-on basis.
The comma-separated names like "Agualho, Cape", have one valuable
property; they sort correctly in a list of all articles. This will be
a key step in producing a print version, and it's not always possible
to algorithmically determine the right sort key. (Meta-info could do
this too, but it's not been implemented.)
Stan