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Building a list of articles to do[edit | edit source]

Hi there,

I've copied from meta the list Vikidia:List of articles all languages should have. Fraf aslo created User:Fraf/List of animals.

I guess it would be useful to work on these kind of lists and possibly make even better by combining or merge some lists from several sources to get a kind of graded list of important articles to have (be they written from scratch, translated from other Vikidias/WikiKids or imported from Simple)

I have a few ideas of other sources :

  • the most viewed articles on fr.vikidia (2000?) ;
  • the most viewed pages of en.wikipedia (that would certainly have to be purged of a certain amount of articles);
  • the most viewed pages of simple.wikipedia (idem I guess);
  • the articles selected by http://schools-wikipedia.org/ ;
  • the articles selected by Wikipédia Junior;
  • if possible to find, the articles of Universalis junior and/or kids Britannica ?
  • the articles with most interwikis links on the Wikipedia;
  • the article rated of higher importance by the WikiProjects on en.wp;

I would be a matter of getting the lists of article in french translated in english, they must be some tools for that such as the ones indicated there : fr:wp:Projet:Traduction/Aide#Outils, which use the interwiki-links I think. And then maybe have a Google-rank-like process to roughly let appear by rank the most desirables article to have on this wiki.

The ideal would be to get a list of - say - 3000 to 5000 article-titles ranked after their highest interest and significance. Of course that wouldn't mandatory article to create and we wouldn't be to be limited to just create these articles, but it could be useful as a guideline.

That may be a bit ambitious, and not so easy to do (I'm not skilled myself to manage process that would merge several lists and rank the article it would contain) can't but I guess that it could be really beneficial for this wiki to get the most useful content a bit faster ! Astirmays (talk) 00:55, 30 December 2013 (CET)

As I think I have already mentioned yet, the list I copied is mainly a working tool, for myself, even of course anyone can consult it. It will be usefull to me, to see at what point I am, in comparisonwith fr. ; 2,000 animals are yet too ambitious for a beginning (the list is far from completed in fr. !), and, furhtermore, I haven't finished to translate it yet. I think it will be nice at some point to have it, but, for now, I'm working on a shorter, more pertinent list, with afewer species : the few ones in List of articles... are really too few, but I think I could easily improve it.
I realize that we had Liste d'articles attendus par domaine on fr., but, as we updated it, we removed the blue links. I think know it was a mistake, because we could have use it by now to create the kind of list you talk about. Maybe, if I'm brave enough, I will try to restore it, and then translate it... -Fraf (talk) 23:07, 9 January 2014 (CET)
User:Fraf/List of animals - Lv1 for the most important articles on animals. Working on... -Fraf (talk) 13:37, 10 January 2014 (CET)

Special:Import again[edit | edit source]

I suggest to discuss further the use of Special:Import and as this functionalities is only available to the admins for now, I suggest to crate a special user group that would have the right to import articles.

I have to say we can use this tool after that an article already was copy/paste from SEWP, it would just put the old records of the article in the history.

What do you think about it ? Astirmays (talk) 19:48, 31 December 2013 (CET)

"I suggest to crate a special user group"
How abbout NO? We can add it to autopatrol, patroller... Vivi-1(fr)Bla ? 11:50, 2 January 2014 (CET)
Indeed, it can be a group for patroller AND Import right !
By the way, on Special:Import - "Source wiki/page:" could you set en.wikibooks.org instead of Wikipedia ? They may have a few page to take over on "Wikijunior". And simple by default choice (first one) ? Or may I ask it on fr:vd:DD ? I will also do it. Thanks ! Astirmays (talk) 13:33, 2 January 2014 (CET)
 Done Vivi-1(fr)Bla ? 14:10, 2 January 2014 (CET)
Tanks Vivi-1! Astirmays (talk) 21:47, 2 January 2014 (CET)
I started: Vikidia:Import of article from SEWP and Wikijunior and Talk Vikidia:Import of article from SEWP and Wikijunior. Astirmays (talk) 22:28, 2 January 2014 (CET)

Vikidia:Basic principles[edit | edit source]

I have aslo imported and adapted Vikidia:Basic principles which was developed on meta:Wikikids/Basic principles. Still it can be adapted and fix until this wiki is fully opened. It is not the exact translation of fr:Vikidia:Principes fondateurs : it is a bit more difference than the Wikipedian model of this page (wp:Wikipedia:Five pillars). Astirmays (talk) 19:53, 31 December 2013 (CET)

Happy New year[edit | edit source]

Happy new year! Super10 (talk) 00:05, 1 January 2014 (CET)

Happy New Year :) Rome2 (talk) 10:08, 1 January 2014 (CET)
Happy new year -- Comedia Paperback book black gal.svg 21:00, 1 January 2014 (CET)

en.vikidia performance[edit | edit source]

Hi all, I hope I've chosen the right place to post this message, 'cause I didn't find the Vikidia:Talk page very clear, some stuff about week numbers. But that isn't the reason for this post. For some reason, my computer can't seem to cope with en.Vikidia all that well. I always have trouble seeing pictures (take the small menu above the edit box, three pictures are replaced by a cross) and loading times of one minute are no exception, when the pages even do load, errors tend to occur sometimes. I only have this problem on this site, the other Vikidia's (plus Wikipedia and WikiKids) always run smoothly. Any idea what's the cause and/or if I'm the only one with this problem? Regards, Nuvola apps gimp2.png Beem-TalkNuvola apps gimp2.png - Hoi! 22:52, 29 December 2014 (CET)

Clearly not the right place, seeing messages from past January, well, I just used the New message button. Nuvola apps gimp2.png Beem-TalkNuvola apps gimp2.png - Hoi! 22:53, 29 December 2014 (CET)