I dont speak for the comunity tech team - but im pretty sure they would love any and all help (as would pretty much any foundation team). It is probably a good idea to check in with the team and tell them what you are planning to work on in order to make sure you arent duplicating any work
--bawolff
On Friday, January 8, 2016, Bill Morrisson billmorrissonjr@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10 wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers need a particular permission for that.
Thanks
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Danny Horn dhorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Henning,
If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more
dead
links than people willing to replace them.
On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are
just
the pages where somebody's added the Dead link template. There are a lot
of
missing references -- not just on English WP, but on all the projects -- and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again.
For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we
can
collect when a new link is added to the page. But I think finding alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard
to
scale.
Danny PM, Community Tech
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann < h.schlottmann@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote:
#1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes)
I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the quality of Wikipedia.
Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of looking for
a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved. b) alternative sources for the same fact.
Ciao Henning
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