Hey Xuacu,

If you have the communities support for the ArticlePlaceholder, we would deploy it- possibly first as a beta feature, so user have to log in and enable it in order to see it.
Any kind of feedback is welcome- possibly on an input page. Since I don't speak Asturian (yet :) ) it would be cool if someone would help me understanding that page.
The idea is to mainly see what user - reader and editor - like, what they don't like, what works, what doesn't work for them, if they could find the content they were looking for etc.

As soon as we have your communities support and we have the extension ready for deployment, I'd come back to you. For the deployment itself you won't have to do anything.
Feel free to ask me any questions in the meantime, I am happy to help where I can!

Thank you very much for your interest!

Regards,
Lucie

2016-01-21 17:37 GMT+01:00 Xuacu <xuacusk8@gmail.com>:
Hi, Lucie, this is Xuacu (User:Oriciu in astwiki)

I have been talking with some other librarians in Asturian wiki and we
are interested in early ArticlePlaceholder testing. Please, tell us
what we need to do, what kind of feedback you need from us, how can we
get our Wikipedians thoughts on this feature... if possible, in a
not-too-technical language :)

Regards,
Xuacu Saturio
Usuariu de Linux // Linux user #134680
https://www.linuxcounter.net/


2016-01-20 14:57 GMT+01:00 Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee@wikimedia.de>:
> As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an extension called
> “ArticlePlaceholder”
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the last
> months.
>
> One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia provides
> is language.
>
> There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. People
> who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the
> information available potentially vital to them.
>
> The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support
> them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article
> Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or other
> mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly not
> actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have an
> article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control of
> the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults so
> smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the
> technical side of it.
>
> I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace
> http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopic/Q3
>
> The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets results if
> there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or alias.
>
> The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a topic
> yet, they will still have basic information provided in their language. But
> it also might increase the numbers of editors due to increased usefulness of
> that Wikipedia.
>
> We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by
> deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension and
> the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how it
> evolves.
>
>
> If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We would
> start it as a beta feature.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Lucie (Frimelle)
>
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Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. 
That‘s our commitment.

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. 
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. 
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, 
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.