[Foundation-l] Comparison of new user welcome efforts across projects

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Check out the number of users on the Persian Wikipedia and compare it with
the number of people actually editing..
Any metric is wrong; there is no one size fits all solution.
NB On wiktionary there is nothing wrong with using bots to create content.
What you do not see is the preparation that went before they actually
uploaded things.

It is not nice nor is it correct to talk down on the effort of the
Vietnamese Wiktionary crowd.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 2/5/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of the top 100 projects (according to # of articles[1]), here are some
> statistics:
>
> *only about 10 have made significant changes to
> MediaWiki:Welcomecreation, the first page their new registered users
> will see.
>
> This is a big missed opportunity for projects to impress their
> standards and methods on their newest user.
>
> *23 either don't welcome new users by template, or if they do, their
> template doesn't have an interwiki link to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Welcome and I was not able to
> find the local equivalent. (For non-Wikipedia projects, I checked to
> see if they had a template with the same name as their Wikipedia
> equivalent, assuming *it* had a valid interwiki link.) These projects
> are: EL.wikt, FI.wikt, DE.wikt, HU.wikt, VI.wikt, KU.wikt, BG.wikt,
> TH.wp, ES.ws, CEB.wp, GL.wikt, ID.wikt, SQ.wp, KO.wikt, BPY.wp,
> ET.wikt, FA.wikt, SU.wp, WA.wp, SH.wp, SCN.wp, KU.wp, LV.wp.
>
> If you speak one of these languages PLEASE ADD THE INTERWIKI LINK to
> the English one, or just reply and tell me the name of it! :)
>
> This top 100 covered 4 special wikis (commons, meta, species,
> nostalgia), 1 wikinews (EN), 1 wikibooks (EN), 1 wikiquote (EN), 5
> wikisource (EN, PT, ES, FR, ZH), 26 wiktionaries (...) and 62
> wikipedias (...).
>
> If you want to improve these pages for your pet project, I recommend
> "shopping around" and picking a design you like. Formulating the text
> is also very important but much harder for one person to judge over 62
> languages :)
>
> Best so far (at least, these have elements that I think are worth
> considering including in your redesign):
>
> MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
>
>     * VI.wikt: http://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
>     * FR.wp: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
>     * KO.wikt: http://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
>     * SR.wp:
> http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8:Welcomecreation
>     * ID.wp: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
>
> Template:Welcome (or equiv.)
>
>     * ES.wp: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Bienvenido_usuario
>     * MK.wp:
> http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B4%D0%B5
>     * ZH.wp: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:%E6%AC%A2%E8%BF%8E
>     * NL.wp: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjabloon:Welkom
>     * PL.wp: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szablon:Witaj2
>     * EN.wikt: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:pediawelcome (as
> a contrastive message)
>
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
>
>
> [1] In hindsight I should have used the table ordered by number of
> users rather than pages. Some projects have page numbers falsely
> boosted by huge bot imports, for example VI.wikt.
>
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