If you want to add a new image to Wikipedia, this image has to be on Commons (nl-wiki situation). If interwikilinks should be seen in the sidebar, the article needs to be added to Wikidata. This are the two relevant examples, other mentioned examples are not relevant as there is requirement in place.
I give many workshops in editing Wikipedia and I see there two main issues why new editors are experiencing editing Wikipedia as difficult: 1. there is no social environment, 2. the software is too complex to handle. One of the things the community expect is that articles are added to Wikidata, and still this isn't made easier for them.
The complaint is that the users do not get a automatic message that it should be added, so they do not see a reason to add it themselves. Further they miss an easy way workflow to do this, exactly what I propose here.
That the English Wikipedia has once decided to shut down article creation by unregistered users, this is on many wikis not the case. The English Wikipedia is not the norm that should be followed everywhere.
Romaine
2015-10-29 21:20 GMT+01:00 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
This is where I disagree with you, Romaine. I do believe my examples are exactly right. We do not expect anyone to add information to any other project when they create content on the project of their choice. We have a hard enough time recruiting contributors to any of our projects now, and pressuring them to work on other projects at the same time is not the path to volunteer satisfaction.
Consider that the hypothetical editor you mention, who writes five articles a day, may really not have any interest in adding to Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikiquote, etc. Is there benefit in pressuring him to do so? Or is it more likely that he'll stop contributing to the Wikidata backlog by not creating the articles in the first place?
On many of the larger projects, and in fact on many of the smaller ones too, only registered, logged-in users can create articles. "Logged in" is not a reasonable filter. A preference to receive a reminder that Wikidata is missing would work. But it should not automatically pop up whenever someone creates an article, which is just as likely to annoy editors.
Risker/Anne
On 29 October 2015 at 16:08, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
That is comparing it with wrong examples that are not relevant here. On Wikipedia we have the guideline that articles an categories should be added to Wikidata, that originates back to the phase that only manual interwikis existed.
And we have already received complaints why users do not get a message after they created a category/article to add it to Wikidata.
Further I propose this only for (logged in) users, and perhaps further settings are possible.
At the moment the largest workload is coming from articles that are not added to Wikidata. Some users produce five articles a day, all not added
to
Wikidata, while the articles are fine. In two days we have about 100 new articles on nl-wiki, all not added to Wikidata. This is just one wiki,
and
a huge workload to get them added properly.
Romaine
2015-10-29 20:46 GMT+01:00 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
Whatever happened to "Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit"?
This is adding a layer of complexity and expectation that I don't
really
feel comfortable with. We don't expect people to add images to Commons when they write an article. We don't expect people to include
definitions
in Wiktionary when they are using a word. We don't expect people to be adding material to Wikisource or add quotes to Wikiquote. For that
matter,
we don't expect people to write Wikipedia articles about what they
review
on wikisource, or about images they add to Commons, or quotes they add
to
Wikiquote. So why would we set up any kind of expectation that people would add "data" to Wikidata?
I also am concerned that people will add a new article that, bluntly
put,
isn't going to last more than an hour...get these messages, and add
junk
data to Wikidata. Wikidatians are working hard to add referencing and improve what is there already, but it's a huge labour and we shouldn't
be
adding to their mountain of work unnecessarily.
Risker/Anne
On 29 October 2015 at 14:37, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I think it is time for the next step in the Wikidata development: a
better
integration in Wikipedia and her sisterprojects.
Every day thousands of articles are created, and many of those are
not
added to Wikidata, even while often an item about this subject
exists.
Users forget to add a newly created article to Wikidata as there is
no
stimulus at all. The next step in Wikidata development is that after
the
creation of an article, users get a message (pop-up, or screen, etc)
in
what they are asked to add the article/category to Wikidata. In the
first
stage this can be just a pop-up with a message. But it would be
better
if
this can be a message + some help to do this, so that users can stay
in
Wikipedia (or another project), without having to go to Wikidata.
A further step that can be developed after is the suggestion of
properties
(if missing), like instance of, and based on this entry further
properties.
This will make sure that there is a better integration of Wikipedia
and
her
sister projects with Wikidata through this workflow.
For this I created a Phabricator task at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117070
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