Template talk:Resources for collaboration

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How to sort list of articles by popularity in collaborative-edition mechanisms

Increasingly, collaboration mechanisms are using categories in templates to automatically generate the list of the concerned articles: Wikipedia:todo list, Wikipedia:disputed statement, Wikipedia:Cleanup, ... Those lists are sorted in alphabetical orders. Other popular collaboration mechanisms show the most-recently-posted first: Wikipedia:peer review, Wikipedia:Cleanup, ...

Sorting articles by popularity would bring the major benefit of focusing the editing effort where it is most useful, i.e. where many people will actually view it. The popularity could be measured by the number of links to that page (like Google does).

The category feature allows the entry of a sort key, e.g. [[Category:foobar|sort key]] (see m:Help:Category#Setting_sort_keys. This could be used for our purpose if we enter the popularity in the sort key. To have a descending order, we could use 999998 for an article referred once, 999997 for an article referred twice... (This sort key is not shown in the list of articles of the category).

As far as I know this is currently not possible in Wiki, because there is no "popularity" variable that we can automatically insert in a text, so we'll probably have to enter a request for new feature. Any other idea ?? Pcarbonn 06:05, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What is popularity? Is it a weight assigned by an outside source? Is it the number of links to the article? ("most requested"...) Is it the number of article viewings? Is there a popularity contest where we can vote for it within Wikipedia? (these are all ideas for you to take or leave) --ssd 21:56, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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Revision and Updates

This template desperately needs revision. Many of the links are redirects, some are repeated, and generally it's really hard to find what's really needed. I went through the links, and realized that it should really be multiple lists. I've included them below. If they are liked, we can put them together into a table form and replace the Template(and/or make more).

One thing that this Template is trying to be is a list of ways for people to deal with pages that they think need something, but they can't just do it themselves. Here is a list for that purpose. It's sorted from best cases, most general to worst cases.

Resources for maintenance and collaboration edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Resources_for_collaboration&action=edit)
Cleanup General - Subject-specific - Move to Wiktionary - Wiki syntax - English grammar - Cleanup Taskforce
Categories Orphaned - General cleanup - Articles to be sorted - Underpopulated - More...
Create an article Most wanted - Requests 2 years+ - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Blank pages - Missing encyclopedic topics
Stubs Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists - Collaboration of the week
Disambig Articles to merge - Articles to split
Deletion Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Jokes - Log - Discussion archives - Undeletion
Polishing Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list - This week's improvement drive
Translation into English From foreign Wikipedias - Existing pages - Spanish Translation of the Week
Images Requested pictures - Pictures needing attention - Image recreation requests - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy - Copyright violations
To-do lists Articles - Projects - Books
More Active Wiki Fixup Projects - Offline reports - Open tasks

Another thing the Template is trying to do is provide opportunities for people who want to do some Wikipedia maintenance. The next list handles this. It is sorted from most needed(least known) to least needed(best publicized). There are probably some pages I missed from this list. For example, the Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified is only on there because I knew of it independently.

This should be handled by Template:Opentask, I think. I've added the pages from this list that were missing to it. We'll see how things go. JesseW 10:13, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There are various places where ideas for new articles can be found. I think there may be a central page, which if so, should replace this list.

There are two pages requesting translations. They are in the next list.

The next one is items for which comment(and voting) are wanted rather than actual content. There are a lot more items to be added to this list.

This is a list of pages where non-text requests are made. If you know of other pages, please add them.

There are a few pages devoted to the maintenance required of the Category system. They are listed here. I may also have missed some. Note that these are just pages for which non-admin users can do actual work, rather than just comment. Comment-only pages(like VfD) should be listed above in the appropriate list.

Please let me know what you think of these. JesseW 01:23, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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