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

[Ziko van Dijk]

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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