User talk:Ooswesthoesbes/Active tests
- @Ooswesthoesbes: Sir the Wp/khw has been shown inactive in your list here [1] please check and include this in the list of active tests. thanks --RAChitrali 09:33, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- User:Rachitrali: That seems to be a mistake indeed. However, that won't mean anything with regards to the prospect of the test. As it stands now, the test has meet the threshold for approval in the past. Currently, it does not, as the test has only been active enough for two consecutive months. If you can sustain the level of activity it has now for another few months, the test might get its own subdomain soon. --OWTB (talk) 09:42, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Rachitrali: Please remember that you would need some definitive proof that you really have a community working this time. This was a problem on the last evaluation. Please email if you have questions. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:22, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- @StevenJ81: @Ooswesthoesbes: thanks --RAChitrali 07:00, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Rachitrali: Please remember that you would need some definitive proof that you really have a community working this time. This was a problem on the last evaluation. Please email if you have questions. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:22, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- User:Rachitrali: That seems to be a mistake indeed. However, that won't mean anything with regards to the prospect of the test. As it stands now, the test has meet the threshold for approval in the past. Currently, it does not, as the test has only been active enough for two consecutive months. If you can sustain the level of activity it has now for another few months, the test might get its own subdomain soon. --OWTB (talk) 09:42, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Statistics about WP projects[edit source]
To complete your statistics, I created a dynamic page that lists all Incubator WP projects, with the number of articles for each. See here: Statistics about WP projects.
Regards. Axel xadolik (talk) 13:45, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Axel xadolik, Ooswesthoesbes: Axel, this is very helpful. Thank you. The one potential problem is that this is only as good as where every page (or every mainspace page) in a test is also categorized in its test's root category, and that's not always true. But that can be fixed over time, too. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:51, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hello @StevenJ81: I know that this is necessarily a bit rough and that some pages in some projects probably escape these statistics. But one thing that may need more emphasis on all projects is exactly the importance of page categorization. A project of 1000 articles should have at least 100 active categories! Without categorization, especially for projects still in its infancy, then effective navigation becomes hard. Axel xadolik (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- The best solution to the categorisation problem would be to make all root categories hidden and let a bot run that adds all the pages in a test to its root category, and then periodically run a bot that checks new pages and adds categories to them. As you can see, that will be a tremendous undertaking. --OWTB (talk) 07:39, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Probably. But my thinking was more general.
- Many projects and test administrators make little effort to categorize articles within the project and organize the content a bit rationally and much more efficiently, which is a shame. Especially when they are languages little known or using alphabets that few people practice. Axel xadolik (talk) 08:56, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Possibly true. But it's also true that some projects as big as (say) 200k articles survive just fine without a lot of heavy categorization, because they are smart about the categorization they do use, and judiciously use a lot of navigation templates. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:06, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- The best solution to the categorisation problem would be to make all root categories hidden and let a bot run that adds all the pages in a test to its root category, and then periodically run a bot that checks new pages and adds categories to them. As you can see, that will be a tremendous undertaking. --OWTB (talk) 07:39, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hello @StevenJ81: I know that this is necessarily a bit rough and that some pages in some projects probably escape these statistics. But one thing that may need more emphasis on all projects is exactly the importance of page categorization. A project of 1000 articles should have at least 100 active categories! Without categorization, especially for projects still in its infancy, then effective navigation becomes hard. Axel xadolik (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2019 (UTC)