It started under the subject "What % of WMF is en:wp?".
2011/1/13 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
- I'd thought en:wp was still about 30% of everything - ~1/3 the
edits, ~1/3 the articles, ~1/3 the page hits, etc.
I'm sorry about the shameless plug, but i just had to tell that the number of edits in all the Wikipedias will change quite significantly when bug 15607 will be closed ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 ). Currently the bulk of edits in the minor language Wikipedias is done by interwiki bots, and i've got a hunch that en.wp is the de-facto hub for adding interlanguage links. This is the workflow, more or less:
1. A human editor creates the article [[Ira Cohen]] in, say, Slovenian (sl), after it already exists in 20 other Wikipedias.
2. A human editor adds [[sl:Ira Cohen]] to the article [[Ira Cohen]] in en.wp.
3. A human editor waits for the interwiki bots to pick it up and propagate to 20 other Wikipedias in which this article already exists.
That makes it: * 1 human edit in sl.wp. * 1 human edit in en.wp. * 20 bot edits in other Wikipedias.
After the Interlanguage extensions will be enabled, it will be: * 1 human edit in sl.wp. * 1 human edit in en.wp. * 0 bot edits (some behind-the-scenes magic pushes the changes to 20 wikis, but it's not seen in Recent Changes.)
This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in the ones.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
On 13/01/11 13:23, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: <snip>
- A human editor waits for the interwiki bots to pick it up and
propagate to 20 other Wikipedias in which this article already exists.
<snip>
This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in the ones.
Another solution would be to extract Categories and Interwiki links out of text. They are metadata after all.
On 13 January 2011 13:23, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: ...
This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in the ones.
The easier way to make a log look cool and easy to read, is to add colours and icons.
Is somewhat to how adding colour to source code make apparent the structure, while monochrome code is harder to read.
post data: I always feel like a horrible person for posting here or doing suggestions. There are procedures, and other mail list, ... this is the tail of the beast, the head is on the other side. Sorry.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That makes it:
- 1 human edit in sl.wp.
- 1 human edit in en.wp.
- 20 bot edits in other Wikipedias.
After the Interlanguage extensions will be enabled, it will be:
- 1 human edit in sl.wp.
- 1 human edit in en.wp.
- 0 bot edits (some behind-the-scenes magic pushes the changes to 20
wikis, but it's not seen in Recent Changes.)
That second human edit will be on the special interwiki wiki, not on en:.
This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in the ones.
Another one is that it will be easier to handle cases where interwiki is not simply one-to-one. On the other hand, it would probably become harder to notice the real interwiki mistakes, although easier to resolve them once they _are_ noticed.
2011/1/14 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
After the Interlanguage extensions will be enabled, it will be:
- 1 human edit in sl.wp.
- 1 human edit in en.wp.
- 0 bot edits (some behind-the-scenes magic pushes the changes to 20
wikis, but it's not seen in Recent Changes.)
That second human edit will be on the special interwiki wiki, not on en:.
Of course, my bad.
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