Osama,
You last posted to this list in October. You had this idea about having a
"list of primary topics" so that when someone proposes a Wikipedia
partnership, the partner group or organization or school can see a list of
about 100 articles which Wikipedians are requesting that the partner or
project edit. I heard this idea again, and am beginning to think that this
might be a common request.
How many articles do you think should be priority? 100 seems to be the most
common suggestion.
There is some history in English Wikipedia of trying to make priority lists
for either 100 or 1000 articles on a topic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:1,000_core_topics>
I am unaware of a third-party publication for defining what medical topics
ought to be covered. There are consumer health publishers in English that
publish broadly but none are so broad as Wikipedia and I am not convinced
that any of them are too thoughtful about listing what topics ought to be
covered. MedlinePlus is probably more thoughtful than others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedlinePlus>
I hope that you are well. I will keep the list idea in mind and talk with
others about it.
yours,
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Osama Khalid <osamak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Lane,
There has been an ongoing effort to translate the list that Doc James
prepared. I wonder what methods have been used to collect that list,
because we might also be able to expand this to evaluate the
importance of other medical articles.
This is critical for two reasons. First, some Wikipedias are getting
saturated when it comes to the 'top priority' list, so we might as
well have high-, mid- and low-priority lists. Second, some
contributors are interested in a particular field, so they can use
these indicators to help them choose articles to work on.
The good thing about importance also is that, with fewer exceptions,
it can be a universal criteria used by WikiProject Medicine of
different languages. Done once, used everywhere.
As for quality evaluation, I just translated the quality scale and I
found it somewhat useful and pretty much applicable, even though it
assumed an offline version. I wonder if edits should be applied to
these criteria (I have very limited experience with article
assessment, so I may have missed some of its shortcomings when
applied).
Best,
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:56:42AM -0400, Lane Rasberry wrote:
Osama,
Both the quality and the importance scales in English Wikipedia are
disorganized. They both were developed in 2004 for this project.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team>
The goal was to sort which articles to burn on CDs and share by mail
around
the world. As it turns out, people quit using
CDs, so a grading system
which expected CD versions of Wikipedia articles which were not updated
for
years (offline versions) never was useful. I
would say do not put too
much
faith in English Wikipedia's grading
systems.
Doc James has a list of about 200 articles which he calls "top priority".
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_ta…
Other than that, importance is supposed to be judged by article traffic
and
links. If many articles link to an article, or if
it gets a lot of
traffic,
it is more important.
No one has imported an ontology of concepts in medicine to arrange the
articles into any hierarchy of importance. This would be useful in
English
but more useful in other languages, but it is not
in Wikipedia at this
time.
yours,
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Osama Khalid <osamak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Fellow Wikipedians
We have been working hard in the Arabic Wikipedia to establish a twin
WikiProject Medicine that would address local medical issues, in
addition to participating in global translation efforts.
One of the questions I had was the criteria currently followed to
evaluate the importance of medical articles on the English Wikipedia.
They seem a little bit vague and more difficult to follow when
compared to the quality scale.
Is there any suggested third-party reference that provides some kind
of a guide or a list of important medical subjects?
Best,
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