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

[Shiju Alex]

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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