[Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:45:41 -0700, "R.Stuart Geiger" <sgeiger at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for the interest, John!  I put the list of the top 250 up at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles -- but I
> didn't exactly publicize it.  I guess this is my chance to do so now!
> Also, a list of the top 1000 redlinked articles is up on a separate
> page at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles/July_2011
> and the entire dataset is up at
> http://toolserver.org/~swalker/redlink_list.csv -- note that it is
> 42.8mb!
> 
> If you have any other questions about the redlinks/bluelinks dataset,
> feel free to ask me.  And you can check out the meta page for more fun
> links data, such as how many more links we added between 2009 and
> 2011, or incoming links to articles about countries / each country's
> population:
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:One_Link,_Two_Links,_Red_Links,_Blue_Links
> 
> Stuart
> 
> ----
> Stuart Geiger
> User:Staeiou / @staeiou
> Ph.D student, UC-Berkeley School of Information
> 
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Thanks Steven, and the Community Department.
>>
>> I am instantly drawn to the analysis of redlinks.
>> Can we please have this data!!
>> Article writers are on stand by ready to kill red links ;-)
>>
>> The special page for this is dead.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
>> _______________________________________________

>From what I see, the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
is just misleading: For instance, one of the most ranking missing articles,
[[Alison Campbell]], has all 5000+ links leading not from other articles,
but from article talk pages, where it is not explicitly present, which
means someone put this red link into one of the highly used templates for
project evaluations (I did not investigate which one). I actually doubt
that the person is even notable, though there is a short stub in Dutch
Wikipedia. There is no way that this is really one of the most wanted
articles. Others I tried from the first page share the same problem.

Cheers
Yaroslav