[Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
This is not a problem. We use the numbers that we have. We could ask Google
for such numbers.. They might even be willing to share them with us.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 12 June 2010 12:02, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> It would be indeed an useful or at least interesting tool for all
> Wikipedias. Though, many readers go to Wikipedia by a Google search, I
> don't know what that eventually would mean for the search results as
> we will see them.
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
> 2010/6/12 Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> > Shiju, just FYI, tool kit can be used by anyone for translation. In
> > fact, it's good to use because (if you choose the option) it will go
> > toward improving future machine translation capability for your
> > language, thus expanding possibilities for monolingual speakers of
> > your language. In addition, "machine aided translation", in which an
> > article is translated by machine and then corrections are made, can be
> > a much speedier yet still accurate way to create articles.
> >
> > -m.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> This topic came up while we were discussing about Google's translation
> >> effort. Google/Google employees are using Google tool kit to translate
> >> English Wikipedia articles to many of the Indic language Wikipedias.
> >>
> >>
> >> We are definitely more interested if Google translates these user
> required
> >> articles than translating  the English wiki articles about all the
> american
> >> pop stars (For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga). Now
> the
> >> issue is, we don't have such list to give to Google/Google employees.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> +1. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis.
> >>> -m.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam
> wikipedian (
> >>> > http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small
> >>> > wikipedias like ours. He is one the few users who is keen on creating
> new
> >>> > articles *based on the requirement of our readers*. (Of course we
> have
> >>> many
> >>> > people who only reads our wiki)
> >>> >
> >>> > During discussion he raised this interesting point:
> >>> >
> >>> > Some feature is required in the MediaWiki software that enable us to
> see
> >>> a
> >>> > list of keywords used most frequently by the users to search for
> >>> non-exist
> >>> > articles. If we get such a list then some users like him can
> concentrate
> >>> on
> >>> > creating articles using that key words.
> >>> >
> >>> > Of course, I know that this feature may not be helpful for big wikis
> like
> >>> > English. But for small wikis (especially small non-Latin language
> wikis),
> >>> > this will be of great help. It is almost like* creating wiki articles
> >>> based
> >>> > on user requirement*.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > I would like to know your opinion regarding the same.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Shiju
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