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LovelyLillith

Response by LovelyLillith 00:35, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

LovelyLillith's response to the critical question

I've noticed several things when working on Editathons that may affect contributions by others: 1. Working from mobile devices is hellish. Tablets and phones are impossible to type on for any significant length of time without an actual keyboard, and creating pages with references is particularly vexing. Creating more formatting macros or links to citation templates etc. would be very useful, particularly since most people are glued to their phones. I know there are a number of tools such as Twinkle that make life easier, but I would love to easily find manuals on what all is available, how to use them and what they are good for. I DO NOT feel that machine-generated subject matter is necessarily a good idea, because there is too much room for viruses and pranksters to abuse bots, and it makes contributing to Wiki less personal to those who invest more of their own interests into the mix. 2. Editathons seem to be very limited to English content. We do our best to get multilingual or other national people involved, but it is difficult and those pages seem very underrepresented. As I am in an English-speaking country, I'm at a loss for what to do to encourage more people of other cultures to get involved - perhaps more meetups with ethnic-oriented organizations or foreign language clubs at schools would be useful to try to get more of the pages translated. Perhaps GLAM would have contacts who would be willing to spread the word on this. LovelyLillith (talk) 00:35, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach one, two and five (although I believe most of the suggestions are appropriate)

RonnieV

Response by RonnieV 00:39, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

RonnieV's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Tja, een deel van de wereld lijkt genoegen te nemen met korte snippers informatie, een ander deel wil juist de diepte in gaan. Wikipedia moet die tweede groep serieus nemen. Voor die eerste groep zouden we moeten kijken of het mogelijk is om bij (alle!) artikelen er nog beter voor te zorgen dat er sprake is van een korte inleidende alinea, waarin de kerninformatie gegeven wordt, of we hangen aan iedere pagina een snipper-pagina, waarin het onderwerp in (zeg) maximaal 1000 tekens beschreven wordt (indien de pagina zelf langer is). De bezoeker die de korte versie wil hebben krijgt de snipperpagina met een duidelijke link naar de volledige pagina, de bezoeker die de volledige tekst wil lezen krijgt deze, met plaatjes en andere media.

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Well, take a part of the world seems content with short snippets of information, another part just wants to go into the depths. Wikipedia has to take that second group seriously. For the first group, we would have to see if it is possible to reach (all!) Items still to better ensure that there is a brief introductory paragraph, in which the key information is given, or we hang on every page a snipper- page, in which the subject (say) is described up to 1,000 characters (if the page itself is longer). The visitor who wants to have the short version gets the chop page with a clear link to the full page, the visitor who wants to read the full text gets them with pictures and other media.

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De bias in onderwerpen en artikelen is op veel Wikipedia groot. Benadering vier is in mijn ogen dan ook belangrijk. In de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia is er een bias naar mannelijke onderwerpen, naar Neerlandocentrisme, en een onevenredige aandacht voor zaken als voetbal en muziek uit de hedendaagse hitparade. Er zijn meer sporten, Nederlands wordt in meer landen gesproken en er is zo veel meer muziek dan alleen de Top-40. Computerondersteunde inhoud (Benadering zes, bijvoorbeeld via Wikidata) kan een aanvulling zijn voor Wikipedia. Belangrijk is om dit te laten landen bij de gebruikers, in meerdere grote wikigemeenschappen is er verzet tegen deze manier van werken. Ik kan me wat voorstellen bij de angst om de regie uit handen te geven, maar ik zie ook veel mogelijkheden om winst te halen uit die gemeenschappelijke invoer. Waarom zouden we het overlijden van personen op 200+ wiki's moeten invoeren, waar dit vanuit een database centraal doorgegeven kan worden? Denk ook aan uitslagen van internationale sportevenementen, en zo veel andere gegevens. Belangrijk is wel dat het ondersteunend is, niet leidend wordt. Een derde idee is het veilig stellen van de informatiebronnen. Veel wiki's refereren naar externe webpagina's. Helaas leert de praktijk dat de beheerders van die pagina's er niet altijd veel aan gelegen is om deze informatie permanent beschikbaar te stellen. Het zou dan ook wenselijk zijn als Wikipedia op de een of andere manier weet te bewerkstelligen dat zij zelf deze informatie cachet. Zo lang mogelijk dient er verwezen te worden naar de oorspronkelijke informatiebron, maar als deze niet langer beschikbaar is, zou het mooi zijn als er geruisloos overgeschakeld kan worden naar de gecachede versie van de bron.

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The bias in issues and articles on many Wikipedia large. 'Approach four' is in my view therefore important. In the Dutch Wikipedia, there is a bias towards male subjects to Neerlandocentrisme, and a disproportionate focus on things like football and music from contemporary charts. There are more sports, Dutch is spoken in more countries and there is so much more music than just the Top 40. Computer Supported content ( Approach six , for example via Wiki Data) can complement for Wikipedia. It is important to let this land on the users, in several large wiki communities there is opposition to this way of working. I can imagine what the fear of giving the control out of your hands, but I also see many opportunities to make a profit from this common input. Why should we enter the death of persons on 200+ wikis, where it can be passed from a central database? Consider also results in international sporting events, and so many other details. It is important that it is supporting, not leading.

A third idea is to secure the information. Many wikis refer to external web pages. Unfortunately, practice shows that the operators of these sites, there is not always strong interest to make this information available permanently. It would therefore be desirable if Wikipedia in one way or another, is able to ensure that they themselves this information cachet. As long as possible there should be a reference to the original source of information, but if it is no longer available, it would be nice if it can be switched silently to the cached version of the source.

VexorAbVikipædia

Response by VexorAbVikipædia 01:34, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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For users, mobile users — who are becoming ubiquitous — probably want short snippets that link to more detailed content. Someone who looks up the "Tunnel boring machine" article probably wants to know how they work and how much they cost. So that would be featured in the snippet.

Is there a Wiki-reader available? Reading takes effort; it's easier to listen to a machine read an article for you, particularly if you're driving or if you're squinting at a small screen on your phone.

You might steal Google's software and spy on your users. Learn which parts of articles they read most, and which articles they visit after they read the first article. So a user who visits the article "Automotive engine" also receives recommendations for popular alternative articles, such as "Emission controls", "Automotive transmission", etc.

Regarding contributors, advertise what you need / want. In the article on "Cacti", a banner might mention, "Do you know anything about succulents in South America? [Click here" And don't just limit your advertising to Wikipedia itself. Facebook, Twitter, ... , even videos on YouTube could advertise your needs to prospective contributors.

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Approach one Approach five

Language tools or language assistance would be helpful. It's obvious that much of English Wikipedia's content is being contributed by people who speak English as a second language. For example, much of the content of articles on Chinese history is obviously being contributed by people who live in China, Taiwan, or Chinese communities in that region.

Ambrosia10

Response by Ambrosia10 04:38, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Ambrosia10's response to the critical question

• Approach two
• Approach four

GLAMS are only just getting started when it comes to assisting with facilitating the content quality of the various arms of Wikimedia. So much untapped potential. I whole heartedly support the assistance of Wikimedia Foundation in the creation of on site wikieditors/wikiinterns to assist GLAMS in creating content for the Wikimedia Foundation. I also agree that measuring and reducing systematic bias should be an extremely high priority of Wikimedia strategy.

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Tibo Nova

Response by Tibo Nova 05:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Tibo Nova's response to the critical question

Many won't try to read a content if they are not good at foreign language, and also many don't read Wiki or take it as a reliable source of information if it has poor content in their native languages. This is the first barrier. Wiki should bring the same contents of different languages closer. And yes, everyone run, me too, so a lot of times I just watch the snippet that Google put into my mouth and it's enough. So the summaries must be short and simple as possible. When I want to know more, I still come to the site to dig deep in the article.

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In decreasing order: 5, 1, 3

Carlotm

Response by Carlotm 08:14, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Carlotm's response to the critical question

Above of what I already suggested in the other two pages, I would like to stress the necessity of these three points:

• Invite external figures with recognized competencies to check the most important pages. To the page will be added, as a sub-page, their essay including three lists (errors, inaccuracies and deficiencies), and a short description of what else could be done to improve the page. Editors should attain to these suggestions.
• The FIRST pages (see Reach) should be protected and reserved to registered editors, who would have at their disposal a kind of page sandbox where to try improvements in a team oriented environment.
• A new type of editor should be created, the knowledge holder. Their will be a moral authority without any added power, pertaining only to content issues. Their authority will not cross over any form or format disputes, not even grammatical or syntactical. But their weight in content discussion is higher than that of normal editors.

Carlotm's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach 1, in the context of the FIRST page (see Reach).
• Approach 2.

79.201.13.49

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QVermeer

Response by QVermeer 12:26, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

QVermeer's response to the critical question

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...write here… In Wikipedia it is compulsary to refer to public sources. That is of course a good idea to increase the reliability. As sources are in general only books and newspapers allowed. However, these sources are not always reliable. In public archives there are often more reliable sources available. Often nobody has described the information in these sources, so that this information is inaccessable for Wikipedia, although it is the most reliable information. If someone wishes to use these sources, it is removed by moderators, because it is unpublished information and therefore defined as own research. Nevertheless, these sources can be checked by everybody. Research in archives is just the same research as sampling information from books. My suggestion is to allow information that refers to public accessable documents in archives, provided that clearly is described how these documents can be found in the archives. This will make Wikipedia much more interesting, because one has not to wait for decennia or centuries until someone publishes his own selection of the information. Publications are often hampered due to the fact taht publishers often reject publications that are not commercially interesting. Under the present Wikipedia policy much information is lost. An example: since a few years tens of kilometers of archives with respect to the second world war are publicle accessable. Many facts that were secret, have never been described and they will never been described because books over that subject are commecrially uninteresting. Furthermore, it appears that many facts have been decribed wrongly in history books. The causes of the wrong history description are errors, secrecy or misleading by purpose. Under an other policy of Wikipedia many of these facts can be made public.

Furthermore, give clear instructions to the respective projects to accept always(!!!) articles that are based on any publication. In my country several highly qualified contributors get frustrated by the fact that moderators remove articles that are based on a one publication. This policy acts as a kind of censorship, because other articles based on a single publication are accepted. The removal policy of the moderators depends completely on personal likes and dislikes of a small group of moderators. In my country it seems that a small group of rigth wing moderators controls the project. This caused the leave of many contributors and Wikipedia is no longer considered reliable. Here Wikipedia is nowadays a medium of sports statistics and nine-days wonders at youtube.

KPFC

Response by KPFC 12:53, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von KPFC auf die Hauptfrage

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Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von KPFC

1, 2

Pdebee

Response by Pdebee

I am only a plain-vanilla editor on en.Wikipedia, and I've entered this survey (my first on Wikipedia) out of curiosity and solely because it was advertised at the top of my user page. So, my comment might not be directly relevant to the goals of this survey, and I expect it will most likely be discarded. For what it's worth, though: I have read through all the options offered in this survey, and am saddened to find that it completely ignores the impact of rampant vandalism on our community of editors and readers. My grandsons (aged 12 and 14) are expressly forbidden by their school from relying on Wikipedia as a source of information for their research/essays, because teaching staff consider it unreliable, since anyone can enter anything at any time and the community of editors is known to be constantly battling against vandals.

IMHO, the best 15th birthday present our community of editors should have been given is a survey on a strategy for defeating vandalism, which is a cancer constantly eating away at all our efforts. In any case, best wishes of success with the present survey and I apologise for being off-topic. With kind regards; Patrick. Pdebee (talk) 13:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

André Silva Lima

Response by André Silva Lima 13:45, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Chrfwow

Response by Chrfwow 16:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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- Increase co-work with Google (Search) like the webdefinition (define:something)

- Increase the collaboration between the Wikipedias of the different languages (introduce a fast way to translate words without leaving the app or page at the Wikipedia app)
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Ozdiaz

Response by Ozdiaz 17:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Ozdiaz's response to the critical question

Utilize well known methods of app and web analytics, as well as incorporate new techniques and models for machine learning and cognitive computing to get granular insights of how people use the content and sites.

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In no particular order, I support: - Approach 2 - Approach 5: in particular, figure out a way of getting Wikimedia into Cuba. - Approach 6!

Marcel coenders

Response by Marcel coenders 17:11, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Marcel coenders's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

The modern user is very good in quick scanning for information tables, infografics are very important. Wikipedia is infact for me already very user friendly .

Marcel coenders's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

5. translation of wikipedia articles in people own lanquage could be a very usefull occupation for all the refugees that are now waiting without any work in homes and camps. 3. Sometimes / many times wikipedia is the best newspaper this funcion can be improved.

Shangkuanlc

Response by Shangkuanlc 17:25, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Shangkuanlc 的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

策略一: 提供上傳多媒體內容以及短篇文字，簡單易用的工具跟誘因，讓行動裝置和快速查詢的使用者可以更方便。 策略二: 藉由以社群領導的館聯機構（美術館、圖書館、檔案館、與博物館）合作計畫，來更快速的擴展維基媒體的內容。 策略五: 透過翻譯工具與人工處理，提升維基媒體計畫主要語言版本的收錄內容。

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Strategy One: Provide upload multimedia content as well as short stories, letters, simple-to-use tool with incentives to make mobile devices and users can quickly find more convenient. Strategy II: community - led by Hall-linked institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) cooperation program to more rapid expansion of the content of Wikimedia. Strategy Five: Through translation tool with manual processing, improve Wikimedia project included the main language versions of the content.

[Approaches 1, 2, 5.]

Gnrc

Response by Gnrc 18:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Gnrc à la question critique

5 puis 3 puis 2

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Timothyclethbridge

Response by Timothyclethbridge 19:17, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Timothyclethbridge's response to the critical question

Approach five, Approach six

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Jojo17

Response by Jojo17 21:42, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Proposer des outils faciles à utiliser et des incitations à contribuer au contenu multimédia et à de courts extraits de textes afin de bénéficier aux utilisateurs de mobiles et de recherches rapides. Augmenter la couverture linguistique pour les langages clés grâce à des outils automatiques de traduction et du travail humain

[Approaches 1 and 5.]

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L235

Response by L235 22:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

L235's response to the critical question

I don't profess to know anything about automated content-gathering. WRT Wikipedia, on any topic that users are likely to want an encyclopedic article, we should strive to have at least a stub in every language, but most definitely at least in English, and if automated data-mining is what's required to get that done with reasonable accuracy, then automated data-mining it is. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c · enwiki) 22:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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All of these are equally very crucial to me. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c · enwiki) 22:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Saxonicus

Response by Saxonicus 22:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Saxonicus auf die Hauptfrage

eins, zwei und vier

one, two and four

Лорд Бъмбъри

Response by Лорд Бъмбъри 23:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Лорд Бъмбъри's response to the critical question

These are two critical questions.

To the first (short snippets, diverse formats, language, etc.) - none. Wikipedia is a place to find serious information and if it takes time to read an article, then so it should be. Even today most overviews of articles are well written and allow the lazy reader to get a fast answer to their question. There is nothing more to be done.

To the second (help facilitate content quality) - motivate more people to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Bots can write plenty of articles, based on structured data, but there are other websites (e.g. www.wolframalpha.com), which give access to such data. We shall not compete with them. Our strength is our community. There is not and there will not be another website, which provides researched information, based on a combination of online and offline quotable sources. The more people write for Wikipedia, the better it will be.

Лорд Бъмбъри's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Expand content faster through enabling community-led content partnership programs such as GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
2. Increase content quality and timeliness by technologically enhancing our editors’ ability to create, monitor, and process content.

Especially the part about ability to monitor content - for small communities patrolling is very hard, because of the lack of enough manpower to do that. Some automatic vandalism recognition would do us all well.

Gailletboréal

Response by Gailletboréal 00:09, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Gailletboréal à la question critique

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Libcub

Response by Libcub 00:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Libcub's response to the critical question

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Four, One, Three

Pointro

Response by Pointro 03:22, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 3, Approach 6, Approach 1

SusikMkr

Response by SusikMkr 06:05, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

SusikMkr's response to the critical question

...What is the difference between Wikipedia and printed encyclopedias? The main advantage of printed encyclopedias is balanced content. Extends of topics are appropriate to their importance. In addition there are specialized encyclopedias.…

SusikMkr's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...one, three…

陳俊霖0208

Response by 陳俊霖0208 09:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

陳俊霖0208 對關鍵問題的回應

⋯⋯在這裡寫⋯⋯ 現代人使用臉書的功能比較多

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Modern use facebook features more

陳俊霖0208 的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

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Schlind

Response by Schlind 10:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Schlind auf die Hauptfrage

Maximalgröße festlegen, wird diese überschritten, wird beim Editieren automatisch eine Teilung eingefordert (und das Speichern verweigert)

Set a maximum size, and if it's exceeded, automatically call for a division while editing (and deny saving)

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Schlind

...Ansatz 1; Ansatz 7: Einsatz von Kuratoren für herausragende Artikel über die Edits möglich sind...

Approach 1; Approach 7: use of curators for outstanding articles where edits are possible ...

Yogee23

Response by Yogee23 10:54, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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I think, we should be less critical on the contribution and help people to add more and more content. The knowledge can be enhanced by sharing only. There are many topics in the world, where there are no documented evidences. We should allow people to contribute based on their information, gyan and the things which are followed for last many generations. The irrelevant information can be removed but knowledge addition and contribution should continue. Yogee23 (talk) 10:54, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Gabriel Burnet

Response by Gabriel Burnet 10:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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This strategy (Strategy/Knowledge) by far is the most rational, academic and information based syllabus which Wikipedia should be about.

Approach One: is seriously important in our need for information fast culture of users and races the profile of Wikipedia on devices and creates quick argument availability for discussion topics among friends and would increase usability.

Approach Two: increases the profile of Wikipedia as a credible source and non-discriminative base for information that is confident enough to use out source material and a culturally compatible reference source.

Approach Three: fosters a better relationship between contributors and Wikipedia. Focus on this area increases contributor’s ability to subsidize definitions with new information and academic citation as needed reducing the workload for Wikipedia personnel.

Approach four: Measure and reduce systemic gender and other bias in content is absolutely necessary for academic integrity. If anything this is the most important approach of any of the approaches that I have read. There is a lot of content that is bias without citation not just among genders but against social groups. Content should not be discriminated against if it includes academic citations that have not been discredited. There has been an unnerving trend of content being deleted by special interest groups that has a scientific basis that is backed up by peer reviewed journals just because it disagrees with that special interest group that are the majority. This is being done without academic discussion or reasoning but out of sheer malice against an established scientific fact. This would not happen if Christians wanted to delete the Wikipedia page on evolution so why is this being done to smaller topics. A good example of this is the antifeminism page I read just recently. From a purely academic standpoint this article is severely biased and only cities feminist literature. There’s not even one citation that isn’t a feminist author and any amendments to even a citation is intercepted and deleted. It gives users the opinion that Wikipedia supports the idea that anything other than feminism is hate speech and hatred of women and opinion that most stakeholders and academic’s would not agree with. This makes Wikipedia look unprofessional and un-academic, an identity that Wikipedia needs to distance itself from to survive into the future.

Approach five: Increase coverage in key languages through translation tools and human process is easier than ever to do and will get easier in future. Connecting translation devices such as Google translate to Wikipedia would increase speed and usage by searchers in other countries therefore raising the profile of Wikipedia in less known parts of the world.

Approach six: Machine-generated, verified and assisted content allows users to cite materials with greater accuracy and increases the chance of contributors citing things correctly. This increases the user’s ability to understand and source materials increasing correctness and credibility, which Wikipedia needs to be accredited with non-biased, accuracy and credibility.

Approach seven: My idea. Create greater automatisation to free up Wikipedia resources. Restrict deletion of content without academic discussion. I would not delete content just because it didn’t fit my belief system in the same way other people should be held accountable in the same way and academic ethical standard.

Patrickwooldridge

Response by Patrickwooldridge 12:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Patrickwooldridge's response to the critical question

...Perhaps a cadre of editors could be recruited to provide succinct and readable (but accurate) plain-language abstract/summary introductions to all articles over a certain length – particularly technical articles. I have observed that the first sections of some articles are basically unreadable by those lacking some previous technical vocabulary. Such a cadre would need technical experts who understand the subject well enough to explain it simply (props to Einstein) and good non-technical writers to make sure the abstracts are easy to read by non-techies.…

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...My priorities would be Approach one and Approach three (and my Approach seven, cited above)…

Helmutvan

Response by Helmutvan 12:20, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Helmutvan auf die Hauptfrage

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Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Helmutvan

Ansatz 1.

Jtuom

Response by Jtuom 12:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Jtuom's response to the critical question

Combining Wikidata more closely to Wikipedia content is an important step forward. It will facilitate automatic updating of things in all relevant pages. This should be encouraged.

Jtuom's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I vote for approach 6 (and 3 to support that). Also number 2 with partnerships is very important.

Filursiax

Response by Filursiax 12:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Filursiax's response to the critical question

One way to substantially improve content and increase editing speed would be to build up an automatically expanding database of sources, based on sources already in use and expanding automatically as new sources are introduced. The database could be searched and/or selected from by means of keywords, and would include links to all entries where the source in question has been used. Existing references might perhaps be assigned keywords automatically (based, e.g. on the title of the entry in which the source is used, the text immediately surrounding it, etc.). Meanwhile, a new and improved (simplified) interface for adding references and sources might be developed, which would allow editors to assign keywords manually, as well as to add comments to the sources. Such a system would save lots of work for editors by: (a) allowing them to reuse sources, (b) giving them easy access to other Wikipedia entries with content similar to that of the entry being edited (thus reducing duplication and increasing consistency), and (c) allowing systematic review of sources in use.

Perhaps it's utopian, but for editors without affiliation to institutions it would also be a great help if it were possible to access closed (for-pay) scientific and professional journals (e.g. through JStore). Mightn't there be some way by which Wikipedia could obtain licenced access to articles in such journals for clearly defined and limited purposes? Editors could then (via a simple interface) apply to Wikipedia for permission to access a limited number of such articles for a limited amount of time. The practicalities of such an arrangement are beyond me, but it would seem that Wikipedia's large readership might carry a certain weight when attempting to negotiate such an agreement...

Hi Filursiax. Thank you for your suggestions, I really like the idea of a sourcing database. I just wanted to point out that we have something very similar to your second suggestion that already exists (administered by the awesome Ocaasi (WMF)) called The Wikipedia Library (the link I'm using points to it on the English Wikipedia, but the program exists on a number of projects). They have a list of closed-access sources which have offered to donate accounts and access to Wikimedians who want to use them to produce content. I have used their program a few times under my volunteer account and it's wonderfully helpful. I would encourage you to reach out to them on your home project if you think you can make use of some of the resources they offer! Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 17:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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1, 2, 5

Jim2710

Response by Jim2710 13:50, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Approach one

Seedorfjohnny

Response by Seedorfjohnny 14:38, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Seedorfjohnny auf die Hauptfrage

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Hier sind die ersten drei Punkte die wichtigsten: 1, 2, 3

Here the first three points are the most important: 1, 2, 3

Kippelboy

Response by Kippelboy 14:45, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Kippelboy's response to the critical question

Not sure about it. Maybe a global survey to readers would help.

Kippelboy's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Don't particulary like any of them

H-stt

Response by H-stt 15:21, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

H-stt's response to the critical question

Believe in the community of authors. You don't have anyone else. The longform content is valuable. If users want other formats, someone will provide it. I don't care if that someone is WMF. If Google's knowledge graph is enough for what most users need, that's fine with me. Mobile will never be the format of choice to contribute substantial text. So mobile is for (some) readers. You need to keep up desktop/longform for the editors. They are creating the content and the value. And your salaries.

H-stt's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

3 7 (Your priorities are all wrong, The medium of choice for education is and always will be text. Text can be understood in your own speed (other than multimedia). For a wiki, text is the only viable medium, because it can be edited easily (other than multimedia). Data is useless without context, databases can't provide knowledge (try googling Jerusalem and look at the knowledge graph's first information: It says immediately under the name of the city "Capital of Israel", which is plain wrong by almost any standard or at least completely worthless without context. That's what Wikidata can provide. Of course the article en:Jerusalem says something completely different.)

Prathaplal

Response by Prathaplal 16:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Prathaplal's response to the critical question

• Approach Two
• Approach Five
• Approach Six

Prathaplal's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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Mvk608

Response by Mvk608 16:58, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mvk608 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход второй: быстрее создавать новые и обновлённые материалы за счёт управляемых сообществом партнёрских программ вокруг содержания, например, в сфере GLAM (сотрудничество с галереями, библиотеками, архивами и музеями). Подход третий: повышать качество и своевременность материалов за счёт повышения технологических возможностей наших редакторов по созданию, мониторингу и обработке содержания. Подход шестой: исследовать способы масштабирования автоматически генерируемых, автоматически проверяемых и автоматически поддерживаемых материалов.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Approach Two: will create a new and updated materials at the expense of the community managed affiliate programs around the content, for example, in GLAM (cooperation with galleries, libraries, archives and museums). The third approach: to improve the quality and timeliness of the material by increasing the technological capabilities of our editors for the creation, monitoring and processing of content. Approach Six: explore ways to scale automatically generated automatically scanned and automatically supported materials.

Argantoni

Response by Argantoni 17:38, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Argantoni a la pregunta crítica

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Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Argantoni (o comparte tu propia idea)

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V0d01ey

Response by V0d01ey 17:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

V0d01ey — ответ на насущные вопросы

Качество контента можно повысить только своевременным контролем качества.

Machine translation; please help improve

Quality content can be increased only with timely quality control.

V0d01ey — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подходы третий и шестой.

Third and sixth approach.

Brownturkey

Response by Brownturkey 19:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Brownturkey's response to the critical question

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a repository for trivia

Brownturkey's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Expand content faster through enabling community-led content partnership programs such as GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).

Yngvadottir

Response by Yngvadottir 21:33, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Yngvadottir's response to the critical question

Support the contributing community by fixing contributor-identified deficiencies in software, by minimizing downtime and lags, and by not imposing changes on editing interface that do not respond to community requests, especially not as unrejectable replacements. Support the contributing community in all official pronouncements. We do the work; the WMF is an ancillary intended to assist us, not control us.

Yngvadottir's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach two I can support in a lukewarm fashion: some contributors find editing in groups at special events helpful to focus their concentration, such partnerships and events may gain contributors access to institutions and archives they could not otherwise have accessed, and there is a small possibility of attracting new editors; however, anecdotal evidence confirms my supposition that most editathons are long on lecturing, short on actual work, and there is high risk of an impression of bias in the selection of partnerships/events to enable and promote. Reject all other approaches as written: all involve bossing contributors around and most involve seeking to impose tech that distances the contributor from the work and devalues their input. The WMF is not assisting the aggregation and sharing of knowledge so much as alienating most of those who are actually doing those things.

Approach seven: Prioritize building on the movement's greatest and most relevant strength, our immensely deep and wide fund of expertise, by encouraging contributor retention, attraction of more experts, and provision of resources such as the Wikipedia Library's programs to get editors free access to subscription databases. The most fruitful approach here is part and parcel of a healthy attitude to the community as an extremely diverse, goal-focused force of volunteers, which means that letting the community itself lead on generating ideas and solutions is vital.

Also: The top statement speaks of access. Yet the WMF apparently has no disabled-access vetting in its software development process. Most crassly, the feedback function that was imposed on Wikipedia articles some years back required the use of a mouse. Accessibility should be a major consideration given the movement's goals. It is extremely telling that this was completely forgotten on this page, and that all but one of the suggested approaches are instead about having machines do things.

Flukas

Response by Flukas 21:47, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Flukas's response to the critical question

Having updated and extensive information in wikidata - with the ability to use these within the articles easily

Flukas's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach six

Approach three

Approach two

Taperet

Response by Taperet 22:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Taperet a la pregunta crítica

Creo que es esencial implementar un nuevo modelo de edición y creación de artículos, siguiendo la idea del Enfoque Tres

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I think it is essential to implement a new model of creation and editing articles, following the idea of Focus Three

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Taperet (o comparte tu propia idea)

Enfoque Uno, Enfoque Tres, Enfoque Cinco

Approaches 1, 3, 5

Solrezza

Response by Solrezza 00:22, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Solrezza a la pregunta crítica

3 y 4

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Solrezza (o comparte tu propia idea)

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Connor Behan

Response by Connor Behan 02:49, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Connor Behan's response to the critical question

Focus on knowledge that will actually benefit people. Not the knowledge people claim to want. In other words, actively oppose the dumbing down of Internet content.

Connor Behan's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Everything but 1. If we encouraged mobile Wikipedia use more, we'd have even fewer editors and the highest quality prose would be ignored. We would also be, to some extent, supporting a regime of proprietary formats.

Keith McClary

Response by Keith McClary 02:56, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Keith McClary's response to the critical question

"reduce systemic gender and other bias"

Is it "systemic" bias when Bible stories are passed off as actual history? Or when articles are sourced to corporate media based on "leaks" (IMO "plants") by "anonymous officials"?

Wikipedia will not improve until they give up the naive notion that they have no cabals with religious and idealogical agendas.

Cannonmc

Response by Cannonmc 03:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Cannonmc's response to the critical question

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Cannonmc's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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How about writing the survey in plain language so that we know what you are talking about. Perhaps then you could spread that to the articles.

To take just one 'approach' "Approach two: Expand content faster through enabling community-led content partnership programs such as GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)."

What the hell does that mean. And I could have quoted any of the 'approaches' in this survey. Time for wikipedia to go back to its basics and dump the jargon,

Soy Juampayo

Response by Soy Juampayo 03:59, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Soy Juampayo a la pregunta crítica

No respondo.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Soy Juampayo (o comparte tu propia idea)

Me inclino por las opciones uno, tres y cinco.

Machine translation; please help improve

I am leaning towards options one, three and five.

Happysquirrel

Response by Happysquirrel 05:27, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Happysquirrel's response to the critical question

I really don't think we need to patronize our readers by suggesting they should be provided "more accessible" (read dumbed down) snippets taken out of context. Encourage good lead writing and then just use the lead, anything else will just cause heaps of drama. I think better linking of concepts would be good. For example the pop-up boxes currently in beta on en allow people to gain some context quickly. Also, the left sidebar should probably allow better linking between projects (ie next to wikipedia articles about math, link relevant wikibooks or wikiuniversity courses, or maybe a wiktionary definition).

As for facilitating content quality, better tools for reference checking and finding are really a must. Better access for editors to books and journals is great, but I think the ability to tag references as "needs checked" would be awesome. Also, we need an integrated spelling/grammar checker.

Lastly, I think that "more content" is not always the right approach. Some projects (like enwiki) are fairly mature and so care, not speed is needed now. I do new page patrolling and the new content is often of borderline utility and poor quality. Meanwhile, vital articles like File Copying remain very poor. Perhaps the focus should be on better content and valuing the contributions of people improve existing articles.

Happysquirrel's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

3 and 5

Imfrankliu

Response by Imfrankliu 05:32, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Imfrankliu's response to the critical question

Approach one: I've had problems with editing before (when I first edited Wikipedia I was not familiar with WikiMarkup). Now there is an "Edit" tool already, which is very helpful, so I do not believe we have to improve with the first approach any more. Approach three: How do you "technologically enhance" your editors' ability to make content? Training them? That would be helpful, but I believe WMF should rely more on its users to edit its projects. Approach five: Yes! I've came across very detailed articles in English, but as a Chinese national, I usually refer to the Chinese article page. The contents are not translated from English articles, instead they are mostly created or taken from Chinese researches. Imagine if we could merge all countries' knowledge on an article..

Kiyoshiendo

Response by Kiyoshiendo 06:55, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Kiyoshiendo's response to the critical question

Please make the editing process easier by automating most of the boring tasks on the wiki. An army of bots backed up by smart users will reduce human involvement to what matters - layout and prose writing. Leave typos and syntax errors to the machines.

Kiyoshiendo's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

A few ideas:

• Reach out to less popular wikis by encouraging translation projects and multi-language learning.
• Make it easy for users who prefer certain tasks on the Wiki to be able to do their jobs, like making templates for the editor to suit users who enjoy adding information as opposed to syntaxing.

Flyingfischer

Response by Flyingfischer 07:57, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Flyingfischer's response to the critical question

Approach two, Approach three

Cangaran

Response by Cangaran 11:34, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Cangaran's response to the critical question

Main problem in India is lack of wide spread culture of critical thinking. The academia and academics of India is below par. So content quality is so poor in some Indian languages.

Cangaran's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach three and six

Kuskondu

Response by Kuskondu 13:13, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Kuskondu — ответ на насущные вопросы

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Kuskondu — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

1, 2, 3

Seescedric

Response by Seescedric 13:27, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Seescedric auf die Hauptfrage

5 weil wir so weiter in Artikel einen Normalen Standpunkt haben können wenn man auch bei andern Schaut

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5 because we can so on have a normal point of view in articles if you also look at other

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SMcCandlish

Response by SMcCandlish 13:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

SMcCandlish's response to the critical question

These options are mostly editing-focused., and thus not responsive to the question. The real #1 thing is making the site more friendly and usable for readers, especially mobile-device ones.

SMcCandlish's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Although the points here are about editing and don't address the "changing knowledge needs of readers" question very well, they are still important in their own right:

1. Approach three: Anything that improves content quality over quantity is what we need now (and this includes GLAM). We're no longer in the growth phase. (That said, the option provided here may not be the top way to do that; it really has more to do with sourcing and with weeding out point-of-view pushing and original research [on WP and other projects where OR is a problem, rather than a boon as it is on WikiBooks).
2. Approach one: The migration to mobile and our failure to adapt to it was identified by WMF as one of the major threats to the sustainability of the movement.
3. Approach four (bias).

GLAM's role has little to do with "expand[ing] content faster"; it's almost entirely about making content better, so I include it in my #1 point.

I agree that automated translation and other machine-performed tasks are interesting, but should be approached with caution.

My own idea for "adapting to the changing knowledge needs of readers" is to focus on quality in a way not addressed before (though it again ends up being editor-focused): Connections between article talk pages on different-language wikipedias, with translation tools, so that we can begin approaching articles and their content in a cross-language way. While 9 times out of 10, en.wp has the most-developed article on a particular top, very often facts and sources for them are added to the corresponding article at another WP. A test-bed for this would be a box in a sidebar that is a shared log between corresponding articles' talk pages across the wikipedias, specifically for and limited to the sharing of relevant reliable sources (probably in an RSS feed).

To propose something that is strictly reader-focused, I have a very, very simple fix: Stop making people search first with the simple search before they can access the advanced search tools. There should be some little icon next to the search box that takes them immediately to advanced search. At least 19 times out of 20 when I want to use en.wp's search feature, I go to the search box and type in some random "asdkjasdoifj" text and submit it so I can get the advanced tools. After that, start making it produce better results. It's insane than there's no way to sort the results, for relevance, date, or any other criteria. You just get a totally random dump of every match, sometimes hundreds of them.

 — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

109.187.7.252

Response by 109.187.7.252 14:13, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

109.187.7.252 — ответ на насущные вопросы

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109.187.7.252 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

...пишите здесь… Третий и Первый

The third and first

Muhittin çiftçi

Response by Muhittin çiftçi 14:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Muhittin çiftçi kullanıcısının kritik soruya yanıtı

...buraya yazınız ... hepside uygulanabilir ancak kullanıcıdan habersiz yapılan katkı ve geliştirmelerin kaldırılması yada silinmesi yardım etme isteğini krabilir

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They all can be applied but the user from unannounced contribution and development s to crane his desire to help the removal or deletion

Muhittin çiftçi kullanıcısının seçtiği 2-3 (veya kendi fikinizi yazın)

...buraya yazınız ...

Antur

Response by Antur 15:40, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Antur a la pregunta crítica

Enfoque 5

Approach 5

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Antur (o comparte tu propia idea)

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Poupou l'quourouce

Response by Poupou l'quourouce 18:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Poupou l'quourouce auf die Hauptfrage

Die Frage und die Ansätze passen nicht wirklich zusammen. Geht es hier um die Bedürfnisse der Leser (schnell etwas nachschlagen) oder der Autoren (schnell etwas beitragen)? Für die Leser wären verschiedene Ausgabeformen für Artikel hilfreich, z.B. eine automatisch generierte Kurzversion für Mobilgeräte o.ä. Für die Autoren dagegen sind vermutlich ganz andere Hilfsmittel hilfreich. Z. B. ein Tool das die Angabe von Einzelnachweisen vereinfacht, besonders wenn man immer wieder das selbe Buch zitiert (könnte das nicht auch über Wikidata laufen?).

The question and the approaches do not fit together. Is this about the needs of the readers (quickly look something up) or the authors (contribute something quickly)? For readers controlling various output modes for articles would be helpful, for example an automatically generated short version for mobile devices or such. For the authors, however, probably very different aids are helpful. For example, a tool that simplifies the placing of references, especially if you repeatedly cite the same book (could that not run somehow on Wikidata?).

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Poupou l'quourouce

3 - 6 - 2

Julius1990

Response by Julius1990 19:17, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Julius1990 auf die Hauptfrage

Since you have no governance rights about the content, get your fingers away from anything that would change the content provided. On this point just the communities could inform changes. But I don't see this happening and this is good, ebcause if we want to provide the knowledge of the world we can reduce it to snppets of out-of-context information. We provide a product everyone is free to use, but we don't rely on metrics like it would a company who needs to please shareholders. So stop falling into this line of thinking.

Provide the Chapters with enough money without having to beg for it (the current system is dysfunctional). Your cutting of funds that the German chapter asked for the community support is contradicting to your lofty words about volunteer support. But you should shift your foncus on volunteers' needs. Ask what we need for our work, and program it. Ask which projects we would like to establish, and fund them. Ask yourself why the German Goethe Institute had to fund training for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa as a way to preserve and distribute African knowledge and why not the WMF did it as part of her original field of work? But yeah, it's not as sexy as the self-googlization of the WMF and playing big company instead of supporting the people who generate the money you can work with.

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Julius1990

3, for more see above

Giudark

Response by Giudark 23:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Giudark's response to the critical question

Incoraggiare traduzioni sicuramente. Per la fruibilità invece bisognerebbe realizzare una doppia versione della stessa pagina:

• Una versione breve adatta per comprendere l'argomento e con poche altre informazioni importanti;
• Una versione estesa per utenti che conoscono l'argomento e cercano approfondimenti.

Bisogna proporre inizialmente la versione breve e, solo se richiesto, la versione estesa della pagina. La prima versione sarebbe adattata a mobile (ma senza precludere quella estesa) e ai tooltip sui wikilink nel browser pc.

Machine translation; please help improve

Certainly encourage translations.

For usability we should instead create two versions of the same page:

* A short version suited to understand the topic and with few other important information;

* An extended version for users who know the topic and seek insights.

Must initially propose the short version and, if required, the extended version of the page. The first version would be adapted to the mobile (but without precluding the extended one) and the tooltip on the wiki links in the browser PC.

Giudark's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1 e 5 sicuramente 7:vedi sopra

1 and 5 definitely. 7: see above

Klebug

Response by Klebug 01:30, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Klebug's response to the critical question

To help expand knowledge I think the more citations and the more detailed the articles are, the better. But, since most people are searching for a quick answer to a question, they want to-the-point information. So, to help further the efforts of these seekers-of-knowledge there should be a "requirement" that all articles provide a summary, a breakdown of information, and where possible remove or explain/define jargon. This would be most helpful on long, detailed, and complex articles/subjects. There are two ways to accomplish this. The first option would require the actual writers and/or editors of the article to provide the written summary at the end (or beginning) of each article. The second option, which is the best of the two ideas, would be harder to implement because it would require an algorithm to be written, but it would be the most effective. The second option would provide a link within each article that would automatically render a computer-generated summary. The computer-generated summary should be editable as well, just as long as the original computer-generated version could still be viewed as an option. Some articles, especially articles that deal with complex scientific subjects, are not written in a way that most people can interpret or understand them. I think revising these articles so that more people can understand them, and therefore expand their knowledge, is pertinent and a "layman's" version or summary is a feasible way to accomplish this goal.

Klebug's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches in order of importance: 3, 1, 2.

EEIM

Response by EEIM 04:27, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Uno de los puntos para crecer en wikimedia es interactuar, redes sociales como facebook o twitter se pueden tener como guia, (no regla).

• Cambiar de nombre la pagina del articulo o archivo -Discucion (Talk)- a Comentar.
• Poder hacer grupos de trabajo de un mismo tema con personas que tengan un interes comun -animales,plantas,etc , (wikiproyecto) no es el caso.
• Publicidad propia, así como aparecen carteles de donaciones, hacer carteles para fomentar las constribuciones en todos los proyectos. (Wikipedia esta hecha por gente como tú, ayudala)
• Cambiar de -Esta página fue modificada por última vez - a -ultima actualización-.

Machine translation; please help improve

One point for growth in wikimedia is interaction, social networks like facebook or twitter can be used as a guide, (not a rule).

* Rename the article page or file from "Discussion (Talk)" - to "Comment".

* Being able to make working groups on the same subject with people who have a common interest-animals, plants, etc. (Wikiproject) is not the case.

* [Have Wikipedia's] own advertising and posters of donations be displayed, make posters to promote contributions in all projects. (Wikipedia is made by people like you, help it)

* Change - "This page was last modified" - to - "Last update".

RikardT

Response by RikardT 10:34, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

RikardT's response to the critical question

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I guess it depends to some extent on whether Wikipedia is here to provide fashionable trivia "of the moment" or to provide encyclopaedic information to the Internet community. Fashions come and go with amazing rapidity, but knowledge remains. My vote is for encyclopaedic information. I am not certain how to provide this adequately for all the new multimedia platforms that flash into existence and then die equally rapidly.

For the mobile/quick look-up users (ref Approach One) maybe just provide the existing summary at top of each Wikipedia page for such devices/users, and indicate that further content is available. I presume it should be technically possible to identify the type of device accessing the information, and accordingly provide an appropriate response.

RikardT's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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This is a challenge, given my remarks above. I THINK 3, 2, 5 in that order. I would like to be better informed on 6 (machine creation of content) before I can comment usefully.

Chaos4tu

Response by Chaos4tu 11:45, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Chaos4tu's response to the critical question

Most of the wikipedia editors are not familiar with the information they are editing. Instead, the editors immediately remove information without researching the validity. This does not encourage knowledge, instead, those people who have researched painstakingly the information in their articles, stop using wikipedia, instead write books and publish them on Amazon.com. (Where they receive payment, instead of insults, for their life's research work) In the area of knowledge, wikipedia is terribly lacking responsibility. I have heard so many comedians make jokes about wikipdia that the so-called institution is no more than a comedy of errors. How does wikipedia resolve this issue? Stop making uneducated, immature, childish, over egotistic teenagers wikipedia editors .

Lumos3

Response by Lumos3 15:36, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Lumos3's response to the critical question

New editors academy - Videos - Produce some up to date short videos showing the essentials of how to get started editing Wikipedia (like this one which is top of the Google search but 6 years old [1]). Have them branded as official WM products to tell them apart from the well intentioned unofficial ones out there. Keep them up to date. Use under represented social groups as presenters .

Gungniir Loruse

Response by Gungniir Loruse 17:28, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Gungniir Loruse — ответ на насущные вопросы

Я согласен с 6 и 3

I agree with 6 and 3

Tyssul

Response by Tyssul 18:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Tyssul's response to the critical question

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Tyssul's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I am particularly keen on Approach Two Expand content faster through enabling community-led content partnership programs such as GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). Get Wikipedians to talk to Societies and organisations-explain how Wikipedia works and how individuals can be involved.

Julien Houle

Response by Julien Houle 18:37, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Julien Houle's response to the critical question

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Julien Houle's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...write here… 2,6

MrScoville

Response by MrScoville 18:47, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von MrScoville

2, 3

AnselmiJuan

Response by AnselmiJuan 19:05, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de AnselmiJuan a la pregunta crítica

En lo personal pienso que lo que se debe mejorar en relación a contenidos y su presentación, es el formato o estructura tradicional de los wikiartículos enciclopédicos, tendiendo a la excelencia, o sea, mejorando todo lo que se pueda en relación a referencias, a descubrir y rechazar vandalismos mejor que ahora, y otras mejoras. Cartellitos que señalen falencias en los contenidos como ser, se señala "Cuales" ante cierta afirmación que no especifica referencias externas, etc, importa poco a cierto tipo de lectores externos. Claro, no podemos decretar el borrado automático de esas señales, sino disminuir su número en base a una mejor depuración, pero siempre a cargo de wikipedistas humano. Agregar "inteligencia" como excelentemente se está haciendo en el proyecto Wikidata no es a descartar, pero no creo sea algo fundamental (al menos por el momento) en la mejora de contenidos.

Ahora bien, facilitar las consultas desde celulares, tablets, y otros formatos, por cierto que es algo que debe y puede hacerse, y las opciones que se ofrezcan podrán ser amplias. Si el usuario decide que con esa herramienta solo quiere leer y que no quiere ni editar ni modificar nada, distintos aligeramientos del texto podrán ser propuestos, por ejemplo no presentando ni carteles de tipo interno más orientados a los wikipedistas, no presentando referencias externas, agrandando letra de tramos cortos de textos a solicitud de usuario, eliminación de imágenes si eso es lo que el usuario desea omitir porque le dificulta la consulta, presentando por separado texto de secciones y galería de imágenes, etc. Ello es muy necesario debido a que desde celulares, conviene que el usuario pueda manejar textos cortos, e incluso conocer sobre los mismos ciertas cosas externas e internas a Wikipedia, por ejemplo, si un artículo hermano en Wikipedia tiene una traducción de un pasaje corto a otro idioma, sería bueno pasar de uno a otro contenido con facilidad, pero por favor, no invertir en traducción automática, pues las traducciones por máquina siguen siendo aún de mala calidad, y ya hay herramientas que hacen eso a demanda.

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Personally what I think should be improved in relation to content and presentation, is the format or traditional structure of encyclopedic wikiarticles, curating excellence, that is, improving everything we can in relation to references, to discover and better reject vandalism than we do now, and other improvements. Tags that indicate shortcomings in the contents such as, "which" before true statements that aren't specifically external referenced, etc., matters little to some types of external readers. Sure, we cannot impose automatic deletion of these tags, but we can reduce the number based on better debugging, though always under the supervision of human Wikipedians. Added "intelligence" as it is happening very well in the Wikidata project is not to be discounted, but I don't think it is vital (at least for now) to the improving ofcontent.

Now, making it easier to reference from mobile phones, tablets, and other formats, is certainly something that can and should be done, and the options that are offered may be broad. If the user decides that with that tool they just want to read and do not want to edit or change anything, other streamlining of the text may be proposed, such as not showing tags more oriented to Wikipedians, presenting no external references, enlarging the text of short sections of text by user request, deleting images if that is what the user wants to skip because it makes reading difficult, showing text sections and image galleries separately, etc. This is very necessary because ever since cell phones, should enable the user to handle short texts, and even know about the same certain things external and internal to Wikipedia, for example, if sister Wikipedia article has a translation of a short passage to another language, you might want to pass the content from one to another easily, but please, do not invest in machine translation, since machine translations still remain of poor quality, and there are tools that do that on request.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de AnselmiJuan (o comparte tu propia idea)

-- Hay un desequilibrio de wikipedistas en cuanto a género y a otros criterios, y reducir esta brecha siempre puede ser muy interesante para el proyecto Wikipedia.

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- There is an imbalance of Wikipedians in gender and other criteria, and reducing this gap can always be very interesting for the Wikipedia project.

Atsme

Response by Atsme 19:06, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Atsme's response to the critical question

Approach two: absolutely with emphasis on the WMF getting behind The Wikipedia Library with more support. Approach three: absolutely, and in collaboration with the Project Team I proposed in my email to WMF. Approach four: understanding the issues is certainly a good thing but it also needs to focus on how it effects editors.

Atsme's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Gender issues have been an ongoing issue for centuries and I believe education and knowledge is a very important step to reducing it. I cringe at the thought of it being used as an excuse so it's an area that has to be developed carefully, and I think equal emphasis needs to be placed on educating female editors and helping them become stronger editors rather than seeing themselves as potential targets or victims.

Strainu

Response by Strainu 21:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Strainu's response to the critical question

Approach 6

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Approach 6, 1, 5.

AlexanderVK

Response by AlexanderVK 22:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

AlexanderVK's response to the critical question

Make the content better structured, remove content which is doubtful or which leads to disputes.

AlexanderVK's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 1 and 3.

Monna Ry

Response by Monna Ry 00:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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All very good!

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Allow download and print the Wikipedia article so that students can work with it.

This is already possible! See w:Special:Book and the "Printable Version" link in the sidebar of every Wikipedia page. Personman (talk) 04:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Kenavologos

Response by Kenavologos 01:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Top 2-3 de Kenavologos (ou partagez vos idées)

3, 5, 1

CrisBCT

Response by CrisBCT 05:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

CrisBCT's response to the critical question

Knowledge is Wikimedia's core project and so deserving of the most attention.

The diversion of resources to eliminating "gender bias" is a total waste of time. People are becoming less and less competent in reading and writing worldwide, so we need to make things easier for them not harder!

Creating MORE confusion by making words gender neutral simply conveys LESS information - by eliminating the supposed gender bias. But words are used to convey information! Making them convey less information is antithetical to the whole idea of language and conveying information.

Yet conveying information - knowledge is Wikimedia's core project. Why convey less, when the whole idea is to convey more?

So definitely NOT four.

No one is suggesting "making words gender neutral." The issues that approach 4 proposes to combat are more along these lines. -Personman (talk) 04:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

CrisBCT's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

one and three.

MontanaShepherdess

Response by MontanaShepherdess 05:56, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

MontanaShepherdess's response to the critical question

...write here… 1,2,3

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PNLL

Response by PNLL 09:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de PNLL à la question critique

Il est dommage, pour un même article, de ne pas profiter du meilleur de chaque langue. Il serait intéressant de disposer de traduction automatique qui pourrait être ensuite revues et améliorées dans la forme par des contributeurs.

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It is a pity, for the same article to not get the best of each language. It would be interesting to have automatic translation which could then be reviewed and improved into shape by contributors.

Top 2-3 de PNLL (ou partagez vos idées)

5 - 3

Slowtony

Response by Slowtony 09:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Slowtony's response to the critical question

The best way to adapt to the changing needs of readers is Approach one (multimedia content and short-form text) and Approach two (partnership programs).

I believe that Approach six would be a disaster for the Wiki movement. It would completely change what Wiki is about, which is human-curated content. Instead of a whole community of locally qualified contributors, content essentially would be created by a small subset of participants who program the machine gathering and auditing. Wikis follow the Ward Cunningham rule that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to post a question but to post the wrong answer. It takes a human community to make that system work.

Slowtony's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach one: Wikimedia Foundation needs to greatly expand its curated visual and audio content. The decline in traffic may be directly related to people's increased use of photographic, video and spoken content for information. Wikipedia and many other projects are overwhelmingly text based resources. The Foundation also needs to provide vehicles that encourage short contributions in addition to thorough articles. Article and section summaries with strict word limits would be one way to do this in Wikipedia. (Think "executive summary" for long business and government reports, and Twitter for how we become both pithy and creative when we have strict text limits.)

Approach two: The GLAM Wiki is an outstanding example of knowledge expansion. It promotes the Wiki concept, platform and mission. It enlists a large number of likely authoritative contributors by engaging the organizations where they work. And finally it encourages personally contributed knowledge through the Wikisource repository. The same approach should be fruitful when applied to other groups of likely authoritative contributors.

Approach five: Machine translation tools with some human oversight are the best way to rapidly expand knowledge to new language groups. They are good enough today to make Wikimedia's existing text content accessible to many more people. There are also obvious shortcomings with machine translations. However the time required for human translation often would be better spent creating new content in the target language. With machine translation, there should be some way for a native speaker of the target language to highlight a sentence or a section of machine-translated text and flag it as "appears to make no sense". A bilingual human could then follow up these flagged entries and perhaps correct them. Human intervention is thus reduced to the time required to correct customer complaints.

Ricklaman

Response by Ricklaman 10:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Ricklaman's response to the critical question

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Ricklaman's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach two

High-storian

Response by High-storian 12:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

High-storian's response to the critical question

Hooo, boy! Does this one miss the boat! Presumably, you're asking about quality, but your approaches belie the fact that you're actually asking about technology. The solution to your quality problem is not whiz-bang geek tools. You cannot write an encyclopedia with an automated script. I cannot believe that you even actually proposed that as Approach six!! No, the solution is not with more whiz-bang tools. It's about focusing on community problems, and re-considering your fundamental approach to your goals to reflect the change from a new fad to a matured project that needs to focus on maintaining relevance for the long haul, even as that relevance is actually starting to drop.

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Approach seven: Drop the silly ideas about whiz-bang technology that will write an encyclopedia with an automated script and other such nonsense. Instead, focus on developing your most valuable asset, your people. Humans. Not robots. Not robots. Not robots. Not robots. Not ERROR 62: Infinite loop detected. Abort! Abort! Kernel panic! Blue Screen! Whoop! Whoop! Red Alert! We're going down, Captain Kirk!! Scotty! I need more power! I can't push the engines any more, if I do, she's gonna blow, Captain!

... Star Treking, across the universe! On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! Star Treking, across the universe! Always going forward 'cause we can't find reverse! ...

Humans. People. Living creatures. Fleshware. Humans. Bi-pedial, (mostly) hairless multi-colored creatures that come in two basic models. Homo Sapiens. Humans.

That's your answer. Seriously. So the only relevant questions are actually under "Community" which I answered under "Reach" because you asked "Reach" first.

Artur.Ll.P

Response by Artur.Ll.P 12:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Artur.Ll.P (o comparte tu propia idea)

Enfoque Uno: Proveer herramientas e incentivos fáciles de usar para contribuir contenido multimedia y texto de corto formato para beneficiar a usuarios móviles y de búsquedas rápidas.

Approach 1: Provide tools and easy to use incentives to contribute multimedia content and short-format text to benefit mobile users and quick searches.

X-Javier

Response by X-Javier 12:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de X-Javier à la question critique

"s'adapter aux changements de besoins de ses lecteurs" quels sont-ils ?

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"adapt to the changing needs of its readers" what are they?

Top 2-3 de X-Javier (ou partagez vos idées)

A propos du mobile et des recherches rapide, je crois que Wikidata + google fait déjà le travail. Mais est-ce une bonne chose (concernant google) ? Les partenariats GLAM apportent du contenu a condition que des bénévoles y participe. L'approche 4 me parait séduisante mais cela entrainera-t-il une analyse par projet linguistique/population ? Est-ce que cela mènera à une orientation volontaire ou a une politique de contrainte ? Pas d'outils automatique de traduction è_é et méfiance vis-à-vis de la contribution assistée par ordinateur.

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About the mobile and quick searches, I think Wikidata + google is already working. But is this a good thing (as far as google)? The GLAM partnerships provide the content provided that volunteers participate. Approach 4 seems to me attractive, but does it result in an analysis by project language/population? Does this lead to a voluntary guidance or a policy of constraint? No machine translation tools è_é and suspicious about computer-assisted contributions.

Mozgotron

Response by Mozgotron 13:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Mozgotron — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

2, 3, 5. Хочется, чтобы на странице обсуждения статей после каждой темы появлялись кнопки "Ответить" и "Применено". Чтобы при нажатии на кнопку "Ответить" появлялось окошко для ответов с возможностью вставки картинок и таблиц и с автоматической подписью, как в Live Journal. А при нажатии на кнопку "Применено" под темой появлялась подпись того, кто нажал на эту кнопку и весь текст темы зачёркивался бы сплошной линией.

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2, 3 and 5. I would like to discuss the article on the page after each topic appears with "Reply" and "Apply" buttons. That when you click on the "Reply" button there is a window to answer with ability to insert images and tables, with automatic signature like in Live Journal. And when you press the "Apply" button below the subject of the signature appearing on who clicked on this button, and the entire text of the theme would be crossed by the solid line.

OverQuantum

Response by OverQuantum 14:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

OverQuantum's response to the critical question

Increase language cover, reduce political/historical biases, more rely on scientific researches and less on public media.

OverQuantum's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

There should be a way to link blocks of text from different languages of same article, to be able to automatically translate text of missing block in one of languages from another and better translate for third language there many/all blocks are missing.

HG Alvarez

Response by HG Alvarez 14:42, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de HG Alvarez a la pregunta crítica

Debería presentar fragmentos cortos de contenidos a modo de descripción para que el usuario no necesite ver o leer todo el contnido para saber de que se trata. Esto aydaría mucho a los usuario que sólo buscan la definción de un tema.

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[We] should provide short snippets of content as a description for the user so they do not need to see or read the entire content to know what it is. This will be very helpful to a user who only looks for the definition of a topic.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de HG Alvarez (o comparte tu propia idea)

Los que más me gustan son el enfoque uno y dos

The ones I like are approaches one and two

Darmokand

Response by Darmokand 16:17, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Darmokand's response to the critical question

per Yair rand: "Support the sister projects. I don't think people are about to stop reading Wikipedia, but if they do, we already have Wikimedia projects set up for different styles of educational content. Wikiversity was built for developing (non-encyclopedic) learning resources, but it was never given the necessary technical support from the Foundation. Give Wikinews the help it desperately needs to be an functioning usable news resource. The Wiktionary communities need a dedicated team of developers to face the myriad of technical challenges ahead. Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource."

Considering that resources are limited, which projects would you consider most in need of support? LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 02:03, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Per Mattflaschen-WMF: "Specific initiatives are important. But so is the big picture of increasing the number of contributors and editors. If we increase this big picture participation level, these new users will come up with ways to contribute that we could never have predicted ahead of time." Per Aldebaran: "We need every (human) contributors we can get, so adapt the technology to the contributors instead of trying to force contributors to adapt to the technology."

Darmokand's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. New users need easy-to-use tools to create and moderate their own community wikis. Simultaneously, these changes need "new spaces" so they won't disrupting existing workflow. The best thing we can do is create new tools AND new safe spaces for the editors trying out the new tools.

7. As Seagull123 says: I really like the link to the Wiktionary:Feedback page on English Wiktionary (visible to me when I'm logged out as a link in the sidebar as something like "leave us a message, if you want") which allows readers to provide feedback on pages from their perspective.

Dp99

Response by Dp99 16:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Dp99's response to the critical question

approach five

Dp99's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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DaveDarinko

Response by DaveDarinko 16:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

DaveDarinko's response to the critical question

Let the world know, that "Wikipedia" stands for knowledge, not for opinion.

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I'm with approaches three, four and five.

Rdelre

Response by Rdelre 17:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Rdelre's response to the critical question

Ogni azione che contribuisca a migliorare / monitorare la qualità e la completezza degli articoli è preziosa. Anche la disponibilità di traduzioni in numerose lingue importanti (almeno una decina) è preziosa. L'attuale traduttore automatico va PRIMA esteso a un numero maggiore di coppie di lingue e POI migliorato (non il contrario). Tra le azioni automatiche, sarebbe utile identificare i link interrotti (segnalandoli, non rimuovendoli) e proporre in automatico ulteriori collegamenti (senza aggiungerli in automatico). Il protezionismo di singoli utenti che, dopo aver fatto un articolo, tendono ad annullare le modifiche altrui andrebbe scoraggiato. Va anche valorizzata meglio la pagina di discussione associata a ogni voce.

Ritengo invece dannoso orientare troppo il contenuto al solo uso da cellulare. Anche se i cellulari saranno sempre più usati per consultare wikipedia, essi saranno in futuro anche sempre più potenti, e la consultazione da computer rimarrà sempre fondamentale per le ricerche più accurate. Bisogna che wikipedia vada incontro agli utenti da cellulare ma senza compromettere la qualità, la serietà e la ricchezza dei suoi contenuti.

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Any action which enhance / monitor the quality and completeness of the articles is precious.

The availability of translations in several important languages (at least ten) is precious. The current automatic translator goes BEFORE extended to a larger number of language pairs and improved POI (not vice versa).

Among the automatic actions, it would be useful to identify broken links (reporting them, not removing them) and propose additional links automatically (without adding them automatically).

Protectionism of individuals who, after an article, tend to undo the changes of others should be discouraged. It should also be appreciated better the discussion page associated with each item.

Instead, I believe harmful steer too content to just use your mobile. Although mobile phones are increasingly used to refer to wikipedia, they will be in the future even more powerful, and consultation by computer will always remain fundamental for searches more accurate. Must go wikipedia meeting users by phone but without compromising on quality, reliability and the richness of its content.

Rdelre's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approccio tre (3) - Approccio cinque (5) - Approccio sei (6)

Gfombell

Response by Gfombell 18:46, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Gfombell's response to the critical question

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Gfombell's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach 2 (from far). For example linking best archives to the relevant articles
• Approach 5

50.153.182.197

Response by 50.153.182.197 19:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Commenter8

Response by Commenter8 20:42, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Commenter8's response to the critical question

Stop rejecting / editing out the valuable knowledge contained in newly published and / original research. Just label it as such if necessary.

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Approach seven: Stop rejecting / editing out the valuable knowledge contained in newly published and / original research. Just label it as such if necessary.

Sj

Response by Sj 23:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Sj's response to the critical question

Again to get to this textarea, it took five scrolls, find the hidden link, click, two scrolls, click, scroll.

(6) Scaling machine-assisted content is essential to approaches 1-3 and 5.

But more critical than most of these topics is the need to be able to accept other data formats and sources - from million-record image archives and GB-sized raw datasets to new formats (3D models, geodata, genealogy, genetics, multimedia, &c). Such collections are thousands of times the size of the collections the projects are currently capable of accepting / hosting / thumbnailing.

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Ghosts&empties

Response by Ghosts&empties 01:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Ghosts&empties's response to the critical question

Dunno how, but it's highly important

Ghosts&empties's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

In order of descending priority: 1,3, 2

Sone asha

Response by Sone asha 01:46, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Sone asha's response to the critical question

Divide wikipedia into varying age groups, use research to cover. Allow international users and also contact companies.

Sone asha's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

.5, 6, 3

ImperfectlyInformed

Response by ImperfectlyInformed 02:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

ImperfectlyInformed's response to the critical question

Given the weakness of editor tools right now, I think we would get the most bang for our buck by improving that process. Approach 3. Approach 1 is also sort of interesting.

ImperfectlyInformed's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

See above.

Jonnymoon96

Response by Jonnymoon96 03:32, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Jonnymoon96's response to the critical question

many people i know read on their phones so i would probably improve the mobile website also make it easy to edit on a mobile device thorough the Wikipedia apps and the Wikipedia mobile website

Jonnymoon96's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

i believe approach four is the most important approach, i support approach one, and i support approach three.

Personman

Response by Personman 04:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Personman's response to the critical question

Among the approaches listed, I prefer those about increasing the availability, accessibility, and usefulness of Wikimedia projects to communities that currently can't or simply don't contribute that much, or whose needs are not met by existing content.

Personman's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

2, 4, and 5, please.

Wugapodes

Response by Wugapodes 06:49, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Wugapodes's response to the critical question

GLAMs represent a trove of information that is largely inaccessable to many people. Few have electronic collections, most are prohibitvely far, and yet represent some fo the highest quality information we have. Strategic partnerships with such institutions are not only important but necessary to continue to adapt to changing knowldege needs.

Can you say more about how to structure such partnerships and where the content should go. How to keep it discoverable? Thank youLilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 02:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Wugapodes's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches two, four, and six are my top, in no particular order.

BlaueWunder

Response by BlaueWunder 08:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von BlaueWunder auf die Hauptfrage

bitte auf automatische Übersetzungen verzichten (auch oben irritiert die Formulierung "menschliche Übersetzungen" , eher "Übersetzungen durch Personen")

Herunterschrauben von maschinengenerierten Inhalten, die viel leichter politischen bzw. ideologischen Zwecken untergeordnet werden können

Medienkompetenz der User in verschiedenen Projekten, aber auch in Feedbacks, verbessern, damit die Qualität der benutzten Quellen besser eingeschätzt werden kann und die Nachweise einen wissenschaftlichen Mindeststandard behalten

Forschung zur Dokumentation von Benachteiligung sollte nicht im Zentrum stehen, sondern das konsequente Einfordern des zivilisierten Umgangs, damit die geringer vertretenen Gruppen protegiert werden und ihre Benachteiligung reduziert wird

eine Quote einführen für (mindestens) die Hauptseite: Es geht nicht an, dass an vielen Tagen 100 % der "kürzlich Verstorbene" männlichen Geschlechts sind und auch ansonsten ein eklatantes Ungleichgewicht zugunsten von "Männerthemen" existiert

Bedenken, dass weibliche Nutzer im Projekt eine besondere Klientel darstellen und nicht zwingend als "Sprachrohr" für Frauen und mehrheitlich "weibliche Interessen" zu werten sind, sondern ggf. von sehr persönlichen Interessenslagen motiviert werden

Es sollte sichergestellt werden, dass ein Aushängeschild der Wikipedia wie die Hauptseite von Nutzern betrieben wird, die über genügend Souveränität verfügen, um diesbezügliche, innovative Vorschläge aufzunehmen - damit es nicht wieder zu Peinlichkeiten wie der Hauptseite der deutschen WP zum 15. Jubiläum kommt mit bezugslosen Hauptartikeln und einem regelrecht trotzigen Aussperren von "Rosa Luxemburg", die an diesem Tag ermordet wurde und auf zahlreichen anderen Hauptseiten erschien.

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Reduce machine-generated content, which can be be subdued to political or ideological purposes much more easily.

Improve the media competences of users on the projects, including in feedbacks, to ensure that the quality of sources used can be evaluated better and references meet minimal scientific standards

Research focusing on documentation of disadvantages shouldn't take center stage but the consequent demand of civil behavior, thereby promoting underrepresented groups and reducing their disadvantages.

Introduce a quota for (at least) the main page: It can't be that on many days 100% of the people noted as recently deceased [German Wikipedia main page feature] are men and that male topics dominate in other areas too.

Be mindful that female users aren't to be understood a special segment and not represent "a voice" for women or mainly "female interests" but can be motivated by very personal interests.

It should be ensured that the main page of Wikipedia is run by mature users that can accept innovative ideas and avoid unpleasantness like the issue concerning persons to be noted during the 15th anniversary, where Rosa Luxemburg, who was murdered that day, was deemed unfit for display [on De.WP] but was displayed on many other main pages.

АКК-Корд

Response by АКК-Корд 09:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

АКК-Корд — ответ на насущные вопросы

...Создание Инструмента "КРАТКАЯ СТАТЬЯ" - что позволит улучшить процесс общения с пользователями сразу предоставляя ключевую информацию, для тех, кто выбрал такую форму общения с wiki-проектами. С возможностью перехода к большой статье.

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... Creation tool "short articles" - that will improve the process of communication with the users directly by providing key information for those who chose this form of communication with wiki-projects. With the ability to move to a larger article.

АКК-Корд — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

...Подходы 1, 5, 6

Generator

Response by Generator 10:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Generator's response to the critical question

I think this: "Provide easy-to-use tools and incentives to contribute multimedia content and short-form text to benefit mobile and quick lookup users." is importand. Unfortunately, you cant tell this survey: "easy-to-use"

Generator's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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Jef antenne

Response by Jef antenne 10:32, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Jef antenne's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

ervaring leert dat inhoud creëren zonder menselijke tussenkomst achteraf tè riskant is mensen maken fouten, "machines" ook maar meestal andere soorten fouten daarom blijf ik groot voorstander van hulpmiddelen, maar ook vind ik dat een mens het laatste woord moet hebben.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Experience shows that creating content without human intervention afterwards become too risky. people make mistakes, "machines" also, usually other types of errors. that is why I continue to strongly support tools, but also I think a human should have the final say.

Can the two work together better? Where are the good applications? LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 02:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Jef antenne's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

2-1-3

Rogald

Response by Rogald 10:57, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Rogald auf die Hauptfrage

Allein diese Umfrage ist derart unübersichtlich und verwickelt, dass ich gleich aufgegeben habe.. Der schwer lesbare Fließtext mit seinen Endloszeilen (Desktop) müsste mal endlich zugunsten von Spalten aufgegeben werden.

This very survey is so confusing and complicated that I immediately abandoned it. The hard to read continuous text with its endless lines (desktop) needs to be finally abandoned in favor of columns.

Ігор Теслюк

Response by Ігор Теслюк 15:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

2-3 найважливіші підходи, на думку Ігор Теслюк (або запропонуйте власну ідею)

Підхід п'ятий: Підвищити охоплення в ключових мовних версіях за рахунок інструментів перекладу, а також людської праці. Підхід шостий: Дослідити шляхи масштабування автоматично генерованого, автоматично підтвердженого та автоматично підтримуваного контенту.

[Approaches 5 and 6]

Vinckie

Response by Vinckie 15:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Vinckie à la question critique

Approche 2

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Approche 6

Amanouz

Response by Amanouz 15:55, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Amanouz's response to the critical question

Approach "three" 3

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This is the first time I hear about GLAM, I think it's a great programme, I hope it expands it reach beyond the languages featured in the wikipedia page. Is there a procedure to invite institutions and museums of one's country to participate?

X:: black ::X

Response by X:: black ::X 16:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von X:: black ::X

1st Priority: Approach 2,
2nd Priority: Approach 3 (this approach should also include the improvement of editing content via mobile),
3rd Priority: Approach 6.

Approach 1 is important regarding to the possibility and useability of editing content via mobile, but this aspect of approach 1 can also be included into the much more important approach 3. The rest of approach 1 is much less important as the above mentioned aproaches 2, 3 and 6.

Developing and improvoving translation tools (as mentiones in approach 5) is a very interesting project but posterior to the above mentioned aproaches 2, 3, 6 and 1. Perhaps something for the next strategy in 2017/2018.

Pulsar

Response by Pulsar 16:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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...répondez ici...

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...1 5 6...

Conteur-momentanement-indisponible

Response by Conteur-momentanement-indisponible 20:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Conteur-momentanement-indisponible à la question critique

...répondez ici...

• approche 2
• approche 1

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...répondez ici...

Chewbacadrunk

Response by Chewbacadrunk 21:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Chewbacadrunk's response to the critical question

Approach one: make the readers feel like they can contribute something without actually doing too much work.

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Approach five.

Daqu

Response by Daqu 22:29, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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The biggest problem I have observed with the current state of Wikipedia is the overwhelming phenomenon of poor writing. In many cases, the lack of good writing makes the content — for many, many users of Wikipedia — very unlikely for anyone to absorb who is not already an expert on the subject.

In many cases this occurs because the article was written by experts who imagine that their readers are also experts, or else who do not know or care about explaining the subject to non-experts. In some cases, the poor writing is because of contributions from people who are (for whatever reasons) not adept in the English language, or not adept at explaining things to other people.

I have noticed this especially in mathematics articles, which are the ones that I focus on the most. But I believe that the above comments of mine apply to a very wide swath of articles.

So: Instead of being concerned about new content, my main concern is making the existing content accessible to a much wider segment of readers than it currently is.

I believe that the problems I outline in the above paragraphs are mostly "invisible" problems: They are very rarely commented on in Talk pages, but they are serious problems that prevent many readers from making good use of Wikipedia.Daqu (talk) 22:29, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Kcida10

Response by Kcida10 01:07, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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1. 2 wikipedia needs more media. pictures!

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Wiki Markup Language should be the first programming language learned in school. Make WIkipedia CC-BY-SA-NC so it can negotiate (quid pro quo) with Google to use its Google Maps and street view photos and screenshots.

Hi @Kcida10: can you say more about the (quid pro quo) vis-s-vis Google Maps? LilaTretikov (WMF) (talk) 01:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia should not allow 3rd party commercial use without Wikipedias permission. Say if Google wants to use Wikipedia info in its search results Wikipedia should be able to use Google Maps images and street view images as a quid pro quo. If we can get Wikipedia a large enough endowment it can live off the interest of that endowment. Wikipedia could become non commercial, that would allow this idea to work and that would allow us to upload CC-BY-SA-NC content from flickr and other places.

Mgmcs2

Response by Mgmcs2 04:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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here is an example of me not understanding wikipedia directions: on the last question it said you do not have to fill in subject because the template will. well, it didn't for me. and since there was no edit button next to what i wrote i didn't know how to go back and put a subject. for me wikipedia's format for volunteers is very hard to understand and use. i only get how to add something to an article at this point and that took awhile to figure out.

Hi Mgmcs2. I absolutely understand your concerns about the complexity of this consultation format and of Wikimarkup is a whole. You're not the first person that's pointed that out to us, and I'm sorry we are making you have to struggle with it to give us your help and opinions. I'm the person who designed the "preload" template that created the structure ("Username's top 2-3", etc) that you typed your opinion into here, and I'd like to make sure I didn't accidentally introduce some broken code into it that caused something to not be filled in when it should have been (or write some instructions that made it hard for you to understand what was supposed to happen - bad instructions are also a problem for me to fix!). Here is what your contribution on this page looked like when you clicked the "save" button. Can you point to which section/line of that did not get filled the way it ought to have (or which you didn't expect to be filled out correctly, based on how you understood the instructions)? If there's a mistake somewhere, I may be able to fix it so the next person doesn't have to deal with the same problem you did. Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 15:18, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Miguel Andrade

Response by Miguel Andrade 08:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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1 2 6

GerhardSchuhmacher

Response by GerhardSchuhmacher 09:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von GerhardSchuhmacher auf die Hauptfrage

(?)

eigene Idee von GerhardSchuhmacher

Als Inhalte-Produzent kann ich nicht klagen — vielleicht kann man "Artikel-Betroffene", z.B. Gemeinden, Ortschaften, Firmen anregen, ihre Wikipedia-Adresse selbst zu veröffentlichen.
better publicity for articles

As a content producer, I can not complain - perhaps you can encourage "article subjects", for example municipalities, towns, companies to publish their Wikipedia-address themself.

Better publicity for articles

Force awakens

Response by Force awakens 10:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Approach seven: Translate pages into regional languages so that people who don't know how to read English can easily choose from their native languages.

Shuroo

Response by Shuroo 10:33, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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...write here… Approaches one, two, and three

Arjunaraoc

Response by Arjunaraoc 10:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Automatic summarisation technologies adopted to the users context would be crucial in serving the information needs of the next generation of users. Hence applied research in such areas would be useful.

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2

MENGİŞEVOLU

Response by MENGİŞEVOLU 11:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

MENGİŞEVOLU kullanıcısının kritik soruya yanıtı

...buraya yazınız ...

MENGİŞEVOLU kullanıcısının seçtiği 2-3 (veya kendi fikinizi yazın)

...buraya yazınız ...

   2-
   3-
    4-

Slashme

Response by Slashme 12:24, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Slashme's response to the critical question

We need to keep developing the ability to generate basic article facts from WikiData, and we need to assist editors to find, use and re-use citations effectively. The article translation tool is a great step forward for sharing knowledge between languages, and deserves continued support.

Slashme's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach one: Let's also make sure that we use short-form information in such a way that our users know where it comes from, and where to go for more information.
• Approach three: Very important!
• Approach six: I'm sure WikiData is key here.

JediLibrarian

Response by JediLibrarian 13:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

JediLibrarian's response to the critical question

Number 3--It's all about the quality of information. Nature published a study on the accuracy of Wikipedia in 2005, showing that Wikipedia was nearly as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica. I'd love to see a follow-up study.

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Maikek

Response by Maikek 14:03, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Maikek auf die Hauptfrage

Ich wünsche mir eine Kennzeichnung oder einen Bereich für rudimentäre Artikel (stubs) in der Art von: Ich finde das Thema wichtig, hab' mal angefangen, bitte ergänzt und verbessert solange, bis der Artikel öffentlich werden kann. Die bisherige Qualitätsbemängelung ist eher abschreckend für Autorinnen, die nicht das ganze Thema abdecken können oder wollen. Wenn ich "Schnipsel" richtig verstehe (kurze Einleitungstexte?), dann ja (siehe meine Antwort zum Bereich Traffic).

I wish for a label or a area for rudimentary Articles (stubs) in the form of: "I find this issue important, I've even started, please supplement and improve until the article can be public". The current quality criticism is rather daunting for authors who can not or do not want to cover the whole subject. If I understand "snippets" correctly (brief introduction texts?), then yes (see my answer to the Traffic).

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Maikek

1

Anthonyhcole

Response by Anthonyhcole 15:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Anthonyhcole's response to the critical question

The Wikimedia Foundation should tell the editing community, its institutional partners and the general public that it is aware its product is unreliable and is keen to support any sensible initiative that addresses this fatal flaw.

Nov6

Response by Nov6 16:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Nov6 à la question critique

Approche 2. Il me semble essentiel d'utiliser la connaissance là où elle se trouve et d'agréger ainsi le maximum de contributeurs.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Approach 2. It seems essential to me to use the knowledge where it is located and thus bring together maximum contributors.

Top 2-3 de Nov6 (ou partagez vos idées)

Approche 3. Chaque fois que possible.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Approach 3. Whenever possible."

Wiklol

Response by Wiklol 17:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approche 5 Approche 1 Approche 2

Count Iblis

Response by Count Iblis 18:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Count Iblis's response to the critical question

We tend to think of our knowledge as universally accessible when this is only true in a very limited sense. Most of our knowledge is not easily accessible to AI systems. It may well be that machine intelligence will take over from us in a few generations, or perhaps this will take a bit longer. We thus face the prospect that while we can read and understand Julius Caesar's account of the Gallic wars more than 2000 years ago, 2000 years from now all our knowledge may well have become unintelligible.

We should therefore construct a version of Wikipedia where all knowledge is reduced in terms of fundamental mathematical or physics concepts. One can make everything understandable using wikilinks that refer any concept to more basic concepts; ultimately everything would be linked in terms of physics or mathematics, similar to the messages on board the Voyager and Pioneer probes.

Count Iblis (talk) 18:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach six

Count Iblis (talk) 18:00, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Der Chemiker von Oz

Response by Der Chemiker von Oz 18:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Der Chemiker von Oz auf die Hauptfrage

I think the best way to improve the content is to increase the number of volunteers, and perhaps make Wikipedia more inviting to professors use Wikipedia and encourage their students to improve it, like the japanese professor Kitamura Sae, who was mentioned on the Wikipedia 15 page.

Ich glaube, die beste Weise, den Inhalt der Wikipedia zu verbessern ist, die Zahl der Freiwilligen zu erhöhen und vielleicht Professoren dazu zu ermuntern, Wikipedia zu benutzen und die Wikipedia ansprechender für Professoren zu gestalten und die Wikipedia und vor allem deren Verbesserung an Studenten weiterzugeben, so wie Kitamura Sae, die auf der Wikipedia-15-Setie erwähnt war.

Ich

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Der Chemiker von Oz

Ich würde gern die Ansätze 1, 2, 3 und ein wenig 6 vorschlagen.

I would recommend the approaches 1, 2, 3 and a bit o' 6.

Amk1925

Response by Amk1925 19:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Amk1925 — ответ на насущные вопросы

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Amk1925 — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход первый Обеспечить простые в использовании инструменты и стимулы для внесения медиаконтента и кратких текстов, чтобы было удобнее мобильным и быстро ищущим пользователям. Подход шестой: исследовать способы масштабирования автоматически генерируемых, автоматически проверяемых и автоматически поддерживаемых материалов.

[Approaches 1 and 6]

Sergey Bolshakov

Response by Sergey Bolshakov 21:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Sergey Bolshakov — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Шестой, первый, второй

Sixth, first, second

Spineas

Response by Spineas 21:50, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Spineas's response to the critical question

Consider making/verifying users as Subject Matter Experts to promote content in certain fields by these users as "expert."

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3, 2, 1

Pietrobon costa

Response by Pietrobon costa 21:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia could release an knowledge research turbine and/or knowledge data bank to allow a fast and true content edition in Wikipedi posts, by colaborators.

@Pietrobon costa: You might be interested in learning more about (and contributing to) Wikidata! (See also, pt:Wikidata). :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches three and six

Library Guy

Response by Library Guy 22:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Library Guy's response to the critical question

four; bias deserves in depth assessment and reduction: gender, religion, politics, nationality (what else?)

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one and four

JBreeschoten

Response by JBreeschoten 23:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

JBreeschoten's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Ik denk dat er een verschil is tussen het aanpassen van de kennisbehoefte en het verbeteren van de kwaliteit. Het eerst heeft voor een groot deel ook te maken met de presentatie en de vindbaarheid. Door die te verbeteren kan aan de wensen en hulpmiddelen van de moderne gebruiker tegemoet gekomen worden. Het verbeteren van de kwaliteit van de inhoud kan, binnen de hier voorgestelde benaderingen, op verschillende manieren gebeuren, waarbij ik zelf niet genoeg kennis en ervaring heb om te bedenken welke methode het beste is.

Tweaked machine translation; please help improve

I think that there is a difference between adapting to the changing knowledge needs and to improving the quality. The first has a large extent to do with the presentation and findability. By enhancing the tools we can meet the needs of the modern user. There may be ways to improve the quality of the content, within the approaches proposed here, done in different ways, but I do not have enough knowledge and experience to think about which method is best.

JBreeschoten's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

Benadering 1 voor de veranderende kennisbehoefte Benadering 2 en 5 voor verbeterde kwaliteit van de inhoud

Machine translation; please help improve

Approach 1 for the changing knowledge needs

Approaches 2 and 5 for improving the quality of the content

Leveretth

Response by Leveretth 02:23, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach two and Approach six

Patrug

Response by Patrug 07:09, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approaches #3 & #5 & #6.

Mr. Magoo and McBarker

Response by Mr. Magoo and McBarker 07:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Mr. Magoo and McBarker's response to the critical question

Editing is difficult even to a veteran user. I have to constantly google certain templates I've only got vague memories of, because trying to find them through the website's own search functions is impossible.

Sometimes you see new users getting walloped with a massive introductory wall of text to their talk pages. But these link to massive articles which talk about the incredibly vague and general "mindset policies" or "five general pillars". What I'd so is BAM you want to edit then here go straight ahead this here is a simple guide for babies with images on how to do it. No blib-blab, but just visual guidance with as few words as possible. In fact the FAQ is one of the best guides around because it cuts the poetry.

For veteran editors I'd make similar visual guides on functions veteran editors may have never used before.

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3, 6, 1

Bagratun

Response by Bagratun 07:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Approach 3 & 2

Ryuch

Response by Ryuch 07:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Still language is the barrier for spreading knowledge and collecting. I hope a kid can access the sum of the human knowledge regardless what language he or she can read. And I think by breaking the boundary of language we can pull more editors. We divided the projects with languages. It is practical but in some aspects it is non-sense. The knowledge is same across the languages. We should try to copy the success of particular articles in a language to another one. Even discussion could be multilingual. Could we setup a meta page for an article to improve other language versions?

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Approach five. If I have to add one more, approach 3.

Yannmaco

Response by Yannmaco 09:03, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Yannmaco 對關鍵問題的回應

策略二

Yannmaco 的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

策略三 策略五

VIGNERON

Response by VIGNERON 09:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de VIGNERON à la question critique

• In Approach 5 (which seems very interesting) what exactly are « key languages » and why only them ?

Top 2-3 de VIGNERON (ou partagez vos idées)

• Approach 3 but it's not only a technological matters
• Approach 4 and 6 but more for machine-verified and machine-assisted than machine-generated
• Approach 2 because there a lot of useful content and sources in the GLAM (especially important between Libraries-Archives and Wikisource).

ElieLeLazy

Response by ElieLeLazy 09:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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1 and 4

.mau.

Response by .mau. 11:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

.mau.'s response to the critical question

One size does not fit all. It should be true that the first section of an article is a quick summary, but this is not always the case. We should rethink how the encyclopedic content is presented to the users, and we should think at mobile users. Probably each section should have a small recap.

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1, 6

Chints247

Response by Chints247 11:51, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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1,2,6

Thiaris

Response by Thiaris 12:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thiaris — ответ на насущные вопросы

...пишите здесь…

Thiaris — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Подход первый: обеспечить простые в использовании инструменты и стимулы для внесения медиаконтента и кратких текстов, чтобы было удобнее мобильным и быстро ищущим пользователям. Подход пятый: увеличить охват на ключевых языках за счёт использования инструментов перевода, а также процесса вовлечения новых участников.

Machine translation; please help improve.

The approach first: to provide easy to use tools and incentives for the introduction of media content and brief texts, to make it more convenient and fast mobile users looking for. Approach Five: increase coverage in key languages through the use of translation tools, as well as the process of attracting new members.

K.Nevelsteen

Response by K.Nevelsteen 12:45, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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1,2

C. Trifle

Response by C. Trifle 13:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Use the old idea: mention the advantages and disadvantages

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Mentioning both the advantages and disadvantages does not necessarily mean neutral approach. A writer may support a theory, technology or maker. However, one should mention in Wikipedia information given in the product brochure, government regulations or in a research article about the disadvantages of the matter in hand. There are too many biased pages on Wikipedia. People who produced such texts must have been either enchanted by their topic or, sorry to say that, biased. It may result from carelessness to fail to notice the info in a product brochure about the excessive noise made by the product, for example a heat pump, but if you have already noticed that bit, don't try to hide it in order to sell more pumps because if you do that it does no longer qualify as enchantment or carelessness. It is simply dishonest. If Planck, Einstein or another researcher writes in the article "here I make an approximation", don't try to hide it, because it is not necessary to turn scientists into gods.

Sannita

Response by Sannita 13:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Sannita's response to the critical question

Approach 3, above all.

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3, 5, 2.

Nnemo

Response by Nnemo 15:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Nnemo's response to the critical question

Approaches Three and Six.

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Approaches Three and Six.

OSeveno

Response by OSeveno 15:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

OSeveno's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

Er lijkt een groeiende tendens te zijn om alles aan te passen voor het gebruik op mobiele telefoons. Hierbij lijkt de desktop gebruiker het onderspit te delven. Webpagina's zien er vervolgens goed uit voor mobiele telefoons, maar de desktopgebruiker krijgt een misvormd geheel gepresenteerd, met absud grote zijbalken, en dergelijke. Graag wijs ik erop dat Wikipedia niet uitsluitend bestaad voor trendsetters c.q. een jonger publiek, maar ook ouderen, inclusief bejaarden, moeten toegang blijven houden tot een volwaardig "product". Volgens mij is het een misvatting om te denken dat de smartphone de desktopomgeving gaat vervangen. De monitor biedt een groter leesoppervlak en zal dus belangrijk blijven voor mensen die slechter zien. Het is nu eenmaal een gegeven dat bijna alle oudere mensen steeds slechter zien, en de desktop-computergebruiker zal op termijn dus eerder in aantal toenemen dan afnemen.

Machine translation; please help improve.

There seems to be a growing trend in order to adapt all for use on mobile phones. Here, the desktop user seems to taste defeat. Web pages look then good for mobile phones, but the desktop user is presented with a distorted whole, absud big sidebars, and the like. I would like to point out that Wikipedia is not only relay is composed of trendsetters [which is to say] a younger audience, but also older people, including the elderly, should have access to a full 'product'. I think it's a mistake to think that the smartphone, the desktop environment is replaced. The monitor offers a larger read surface and will therefore remain important to people who see worse. It is simply a fact that almost all older people see getting worse, and the desktop computer user will eventually increase in number so rather than decrease.

OSeveno's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

Niet één van de gepresenteerde mogelijke benaderingen spreekt mij overtuigend aan. Ook ik vind dit een moeilijk vraagstuk. Misschien zit het antwoord in 'gekoppelde' zusterprojecten opzetten voor afwijkende beeldformaten. Hoe precies, dat weet ik nog niet.

Machine translation; please help improve.

Not one of the presented possible approaches appeals to me convincingly. I also find this a difficult question. Perhaps the answer is in 'linked' sister projects set up for different image formats. How, exactly, I do not know yet.

B25es

Response by B25es 16:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de B25es a la pregunta crítica

Pero ¿sabemos qué es lo que demandan los lectores? Porque los fragmentos cortos no van a ayudar al que busca una respuesta, por ejemplo, sobre las causas de la Primera Guerra Mundial o los usos del cromo. Simplemente, eso no cabe en veinte ni en cincuenta palabras. Ahora, si lo que quieres es saber dónde juega Messi, ese es un asunto totalmente distinto.
Sí que es importante asumir que hacen falta versiones en lenguas distintas del inglés. Aunque haya mucha gente que tenga un conocimiento básico de inglés, es muy frecuente encontrar enormes masas de personas cuyas lenguas de cultura, incluso cuando no sean su lengua materna, son el castellano, el francés, el alemán, el ruso, el chino, el árabe, el japonés, el portugués... Por extraño que parezca es perfectamente posible encontrar en muchos lugares maestros de escuela que no hablan nada de inglés, ni para pedir un café. Por ello la barrera idiomática es seria.

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But do we know what readers demand? Because short fragments will not help looking for a response, for example, on the causes of the First World War or uses of chromium. That just does not fit in twenty or fifty words. Now, if you want to know where to play Messi, that's an entirely different matter.

Yes it is important to assume that there's a shortage of versions in languages other than English. Although there are many people who have a basic knowledge of English it is very common to find huge masses of people whose languages of culture, even if they are not your first language, are Castilian [Spanish], French, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese ... Oddly enough it is perfectly possible to find in many places school teachers who do not speak any English, not even enough to order a coffee. Therefore, the language barrier is serious.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de B25es (o comparte tu propia idea)

• El enfoque 1 tiene problemas. ¿Cómo voy a contribuir con contenido multimedia? Subir vídeos es técnicamente complejo. Es tan complejo que muy poca gente sabe hacerlo. E incluso las fotografías tropiezan muchas veces con problemas de licencia. Fotografiar ranas o monumentos españoles (porque es España hay libertad de panorama) es fácil. Fotografiar un coche de policía de Luxemburgo, yo ni me lo plantearía sin un buen equipo de abogados.
  Y respecto de consultar con el móvil, habría que plantearse hacer resúmenes ad-hoc.
• El enfoque dos necesitaría un giro en la concepción de muchos grupos de usuarios y comunidades de los proyectos. Haría falta permitir a instituciones que editaran. Por ejemplo, dudo que haya un lugar mejor que el Museo del Prado para encontar gente capaz de explicar los cuadros que hay allí. Pero si crearan un usuario Museodelprado, iban a ser baneados en segundos. O llegamos a un concepto más flexible, o los GLAM los van a hacer cuatro voluntarios, en vez de cientos de personas muy bien preparadas.
• El enfoque tres no lo termino de captar. Si es por crear, simplificar viene bien, pero también dar acceso facil a herramientas (por ejemplo, nunca consigo acordarme de como tachar texto, me toca buscas un ejemplo y copiar). Respecto del seguimiento, poder tener listas de seguimiento generales de todos los proyectos sería genial.
• El enfoque cuatro es positivo. Pero nada fácil de implementar. Un poeta en español o francés de tercera fila es muy probable que tenga artículo, mientras que el mejor literato en suajili o sranantongo ya tendrán bastante si se les menciona en algún sitio.
• El enfoque cinco es positivo. Depende del enfoque seis.
• El enfoque seis podría acabar en pocos días con algunos problemas de discriminación. Por ejemplo, una ciudad de 100 000 habitantes del Sur Global tiene mucha probabilidad de tener un artículo penoso o incluso no tenerlo. Depende de la lengua local y de la suerte. Sin embargo un municipio español, incluso uno con 100 habitantes es seguro que tendrá artículo (hablo de la Wikipedia en español). Hay una solución, se toma un programa (bot) y se traducen, por ejemplo, todas las localidades de Botsuana. Pero hay un problema. La comunidad de editores de la Wikipedia en español no ve que eso sea la forma correcta de actuar. El resultado es que si quieres consultar la geografía de Botsuana, lo mejor es que empieces por aprender inglés. Personalmente no veo qué mal se haría traduciendo articulos de poblaciones, ríos, islas. Incluso de otros temas. Pero la comunidad se opone.

• Mi voto será para 5 y 6.
  B25es (talk) 16:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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• Focus 1 has problems. How I will contribute multimedia content? Upload videos is technically complex. It is so complex that few people know so. And even photographs often faced with licensing issues. Spanish monuments frogs or photograph (because there is freedom of panorama Spain) is easy. Photographing a police car Luxembourg, nor I would consider it without a good team of lawyers.
  And regarding consulted with mobile, we should consider doing ad-hoc summaries.
• The two focus require a shift in the conception of many user groups and community projects. Would it allow institutions edited. For example, I doubt there is a better than the Prado place to locate people who can explain the tables there. But if you create a user "Museodelprado" they were to be banned in seconds. Or we come to a more flexible, or the concept GLAM will make four volunteers, instead of hundreds of people very well prepared.
• The three did not approach the end of capture. If you create, simplify comes good, but also give easy access to tools (for example, I never remember him and cross out text, I have to looking for an example and copy). Of monitoring, to have lists of general monitoring of all projects would be great.
• The focus four is positive. But not easy to implement. A poet in Spanish or French third row is very likely to have article, while the best writer in Swahili or sranantongo longer have enough if they are mentioned somewhere.
• The five positive approach. Approach depends six.
• The focus six could end in a few days with some problems of discrimination. For example, a city of 100,000 inhabitants in the Global South have much chance of having a painful article or even not having it. It depends on the local language and luck. However, a Spanish town, including one with 100 inhabitants is sure to have items (I speak of the Wikipedia in Spanish). There is a solution, it takes a program (bot) and translated, for example, all locations in Botswana. But there's a problem. The community of editors of Wikipedia in Spanish do not see that that's the right way to act. The result is that if you want to see the geography of Botswana, it is best to start learning English. Personally I do not see what harm would translate articles populations, rivers, islands. Even other issues. But the community is opposed.

• My vote would be for 5 and 6.

Housiemousie

Response by Housiemousie 17:53, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Housiemousie's response to the critical question

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Housiemousie's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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1 - except I do not like the idea of an incentive program - it could breed the wrong kind of competition

2 - yes

3 - yes

Madame Curieuse

Response by Madame Curieuse 18:57, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Madame Curieuse's response to the critical question

team up with museums, archives, universities, bureaus of standard and similar institutions

Madame Curieuse's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 1 and 2

Lele giannoni

Response by Lele giannoni 18:59, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Lele giannoni's response to the critical question

Among those proposed, I think approach four is the most considerable, with regard to age gap more than to gender gap. In fact, I think Wiki represents the point of view of young people. We shoul try to involve more aged people to cover more attitudes and opinions.

Lele giannoni's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Overall, the proposed approaches seem to focus on technological improvement. However, I don't think technology should be the most important tool to increase knowledge. Conversely, I think we should try to involve in wikipedia people skilled in the different topics, who are not so expert in IT. The original vice of Wiki is the fact it has been written by computer people: as if the articles of Britannica had been written by typographers.

@Lele giannoni: Hi, I just wanted to mention that the ideas behind approaches 1, 3, 5, and partially 6, are also to do with making it easier for non-technical people to contribute to the areas that are currently very technical (e.g. uploading files, or participating in some of the more complicated workflows at various wikis, or even just finding specific types of tasks in relation to specific subject areas). Hope that helps. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:29, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I wanted to mean that basic editing is not so technically difficult. Notwihstanding, many people skilled in topics (particularily in humanities) don't partecipate in Wkiprojects. So, i don't think technology is the cause of their absence, while motivation. Lele Giannoni

Understood. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Muzyk98

Response by Muzyk98 20:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Główne 2-3 koncepcje wg użytkownila Muzyk98 (albo podziel się swoim pomysłem)

...2, 5, 7…

Moje uwagi:

My notes:

Koncepcja czwarta

"Pomiar i redukcja systemowych uprzedzeń względem płci itp. w całościowym ujęciu naszej treści w poszczególnych projektach."

Ta koncepcja wydaje się dotyczyć nie tyle wiedzy, co ideologii (feministycznej, gender itp.). Według jakich obiektywnych kryteriów ma być "mierzony" poziom uprzedzeń, skoro różne kultury, a nawet różne środowiska w ramach jednej kultury, widzą kwestie płci inaczej? To, co dla jednych jest przejawem uprzedzeń i dyskryminacji, dla innych jest np. wyrazem szacunku. Zdecydowany sprzeciw.

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Fourth concept

"Measurement and reduction of systemic gender bias, etc. In the overall perspective of our content in individual projects."

This concept seems to concern not so much knowledge, as ideology (feminist, gender, etc.). According to which objective criteria must the level of bias be "measured" against, since different cultures, and even different environments within a single culture, see gender issues differently? What for some is a manifestation of prejudice and discrimination, for others it is e.g. an expression of respect. Strong opposition.

Własne sugestie

1. Uprościć mechanizmy wprowadzania treści. Robią się coraz bardziej skomplikowane, a więc coraz mniej przyjazne i przystępne dla przeciętnego użytkownika. Niektóre są w zasadzie dostępne tylko dla osób z przygotowaniem informatycznym.

2. Wprowadzić na szerszą skalę fachową korektę językową tekstów (stylistyczną, interpunkcyjną, typograficzną). Niekiedy są one rozpaczliwie nieudolne, co moim zdaniem odbija się na postrzeganiu Wikipedii jako źródła niezbyt wiarygodnego, gdyż tworzonego przez osoby bez dostatecznego przygotowania, skoro nie umieją nawet pisać poprawnie po polsku.

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My own suggestions

1. Simplify the mechanisms for implementing content. They are getting more complicated, and therefore less friendly and accessible for the average user. Some are in principle available only to people with an IT background.

2. Encourage wider linguistic professionals in the revision of texts (stylistic, punctuation, typography). Sometimes the articles are desperately clumsy, which I think is reflected in the perception of Wikipedia as a source of not very reliable information, as created by people without adequate preparation, since they can not even write correctly in Polish.

HГq

Response by HГq 20:37, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von HГq auf die Hauptfrage

Ansatz eins und sechs. Mehr benutzerfreundliche Hilfsmittel beim Erstellen und Bearbeiten von Texten bereitstellen, um qualitativ hochwertige Inhalte schnell und unkompliziert hinzufügen zu können.

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Approach one and six. Provide more user-friendly tools for creating and editing of texts, to quickly and easily add quality content.

Bobbyshabangu

Response by Bobbyshabangu 21:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Bobbyshabangu's response to the critical question

Approach one: Provide easy-to-use tools and incentives to contribute multimedia content and short-form text to benefit mobile and quick lookup users. Approach two: Expand content faster through enabling community-led content partnership programs such as GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). Approach four: Measure and reduce systemic gender and other bias in our overall content by project.

Bobbyshabangu's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Amongst those proposed I think 3 is the most important.

Matthias Buchmeier

Response by Matthias Buchmeier 22:59, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Matthias Buchmeier's response to the critical question

I think it's important to improve the readability by mobile devices, taking additionally into account a frequently low internet connectivity/bandwidth of mobile internet.

Matthias Buchmeier's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

3,5,6

JoelGlennWright

Response by JoelGlennWright 23:38, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

JoelGlennWright's response to the critical question

I am, indeed, glad that questions of reform are at least now being asked. I think in general the necessary steps to bring about 'real' change entail an overhaul of the entire system and structure of the division of power within the wikipedia community. Unfortunately, in your well meaning attempt to provide freedom within wikipedia, what you have inadvertently done is setup a dark age medieval-style fiefdom. A power system where those people who are 'in the know' and well liked by their fellow trolls are swept into positions of absolute power. Power which can not be taken away from them should that abuse it and abuse it they have. How can there be freedom for anyone to edit if there articles can be removed at the whim of an administrator at anytime and how is it fair that administrators can block users but are allow to overrule such blocks if they are made against them. wikipedia is heading towards a civil war very soon should these transgressions not be addressed and changed.

JoelGlennWright's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

As far as rating the approaches suggested, I would say: Approach 4, Approach 2 and Approach 1 are you best bet.

Magedq

Response by Magedq 03:49, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Magedq's response to the critical question

Approach 6: Allow users to automate translation for their proofreading. Experiment with machine translation quality, and if it attracts users from different languages. We should create a process for translation (and other forms of automation) that can overtime require less direct human supervision. This can be done carefully with with small expirements before wider roll outs.

Maferlona

Response by Maferlona 05:06, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Respuesta de Maferlona a la pregunta crítica

Aunque los proyectos Wikimedia se planteen llegar a todas las personas esto presenta un reto en cuanto a la cuestión lingüística se refiere por lo que es necesario que en todos se incremente y se trabaje con la comunidad en este aspecto, pero una buena forma de iniciar es por medio de la expansión de los programas asociados. Otro problema, que está muy ligado al mejoramiento de la comunidad es el de las brechas; al reducirla dentro de la comunidad se debe incentivar a reducirla dentro del contenido y que este pueda permanecer.

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Although Wikimedia projects are beginning to reach all people this presents a challenge where the language issue is concerned, so it is necessary that everything betters and works with the community in this regard, but a good way to start is through the expansion of associated programs. Another problem, which is closely linked to the improvement of the community is the gaps; to reduce them within the community should be encouraged so as to reduce them within the content and so that it may remain.

Las 2 o 3 mejores opciones de Maferlona (o comparte tu propia idea)

• Idea 2
• Idea 4
• Idea 5

Samwilson

Response by Samwilson 07:03, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Samwilson's response to the critical question

Connecting the community (i.e. both the Wikimedia community and the wider general public community) and GLAM entities is very important I think.

As for machine generation of anything, I'm suspect but I do think on Wikisource and Wiktionary it could be (and is already is in some ways) of great benefit.

Samwilson's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 2 and 6.

Gingersnappy

Response by Gingersnappy 09:02, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Gingersnappy — ответ на насущные вопросы

Нужно больше внимания обращать на то, что происходит в мире в данный момент. Сейчас и здесь люди интересуются всем, что происходит во вселенной, в мире, в стране, в республике, а прежде всего - в их жизни.

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It is necessary to pay more attention to what is happening in the world at the moment. Here and now people are interested in everything that happens in the universe, the world, in the country, in the republic, and first of all - in their lives.

Gingersnappy — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

Второй, третий, пятый.

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The second, third, fifth.

Ranu sharmagw

Response by Ranu sharmagw 10:24, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Ranu sharmagw's response to the critical question

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Ranu sharmagw's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...write here… i am not know much more ideas but some problems i face as i make many topics but auto removed your system this is wrongs ways, because article is important all tips of if want to rich visitors so do not removed creating topic

Pomptidom

Response by Pomptidom 11:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Pomptidom's response to the critical question

If readers knowledge needs change, they will discover a gap if the articles are not written yet. Make it known that everybody can participate (and that it's actually fun to do that) and make it easy to participate.

Pomptidom's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

4, 1, 5

Jon E. Dalton

Response by Jon E. Dalton 17:02, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Jon E. Dalton's response to the critical question

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Jon E. Dalton's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

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Whereas all six approaches are in my humble opinion strong, in my experience, the use of forums that permit others to inject expertise are very effective. I might suggest a "special" daily page that details items of current interest and invite response.

Koroleva Evgenia

Response by Koroleva Evgenia 20:04, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Koroleva Evgenia — ответ на насущные вопросы

...пишите здесь…

Koroleva Evgenia — выбранные 2-3 предпочтительных подхода (или собственная идея)

1, 3 и 5 подходы.

Tryptofish

Response by Tryptofish 21:04, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Tryptofish's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

4, 2, 5, in that order

ThurnerRupert

Response by ThurnerRupert 22:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

ThurnerRupert's response to the critical question

...a very important question. while WMF did an excellent job in many respects, it did catastrophic in "knowledge" or "contents". where can i put a video on how to make bred from growing the crop, mill, baking. with subtitles in 200 languages, and translated in 50 languages? i do not have the technology to produce it, nor to store it, nor to find it. where and how can i use parts of an article to create a book for a training course? how can i download parts of wikipedia as zim or epub and take it with me? all impossible or too difficult.

ThurnerRupert's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...approach five seems fine. approach 3 is written in complicated english and means everything and nothing, you mean easier contribute? sure! if so, approach one is approach three. approach seven is to reserve 30% of the money (i.e. 25 mio USD) to innovative content creation _outside_ of wikimedia foundation, via some competition or global/local grant giving model. WMF proofed that it is unable to innovate in the nearly 15 years of existence. it created a visual editor for the same old content, that is it. i am wondering how you make sure that such a suggestion is going to the WMF board or community instead of sticking within the foundation who has a conflict of interest and no ambition whatsoever to involve others.

위키백과 홍보!!

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위키백과를 홍보하세요!1655dlehdbs (talk) 00:57, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia publicity!! Promote Wikipedia!

Rslocked

Response by Rslocked 01:28, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Rslocked's response to the critical question

One thing to keep in mind is the need for the readers to comprehend this newly found information's. There should be a level of clarity between the transition of information. Another thing would be figuring out how to properly apply the information to the content throughout the foundation.

Rslocked's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Approach 3 2. Approach 5 3. Approach 4

Abrimaal

Response by Abrimaal 01:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Odpowiedź użytkownika Abrimaal na główne pytanie

...wpisz odpowiedź tutaj… 1

Główne 2-3 koncepcje wg użytkownika Abrimaal (albo podziel sie swoim pomysłem)

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Subskrypcja na e-mail z wybranego zakresu wiedzy np. (E-mail subscription of user-selected range)

- ogólny newsletter (a general newsletter)

- nowe artykuły z wybranej tematyki (new articles from selected categories)

- aktualizacje obserwowanych artykułów (updates of watched articles)

StupidChangSonla

Response by StupidChangSonla 13:42, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

StupidChangSonla 對關鍵問題的回應

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StupidChangSonla 的前2或前3優先順序（或分享您自己的想法）

⋯⋯在這裡寫⋯⋯ 2 4 1

Fantomeoz

Response by Fantomeoz 13:53, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Fantomeoz's response to the critical question

3

Fantomeoz's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1 2

Donne Cena

Response by Donne Cena 00:12, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Donne Cena's response to the critical question

more easy-to-understand words

Donne Cena's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I support number five. I think there should be a sub-talk page for the page to tell people the meaning of a word they do not understand on the article

Cwenrich13

Response by Cwenrich13 10:18, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Cwenrich13's response to the critical question

Adding an additional tab for community created snippets. But also allow for users to select if they want those also displayed with pointers or highlighting what they are referring to. Augmentation of the side bar could be used for the display area or have the main page be retractable on one side exposing the snippets as if it was a piece of paper being slide out from underneath another piece of paper.

Another could be a more accessible mind-mapping diagram to help in the discovery of new subjects or even unknown connections.

Cwenrich13's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Listed in order: Approach Six Approach One Approach Two

Monopoly31121993

Response by Monopoly31121993 10:30, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Monopoly31121993's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

2,5

NinjaRobotPirate

Response by NinjaRobotPirate 11:03, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate's response to the critical question

I'm not sure that "changing knowledge needs" is even a thing. And even if it were, I'm not sure what it has to do with me. It's like asking me what I think about Ani DiFranco's music. I listen to heavy metal, man; I don't even have an opinion on that.

If the WMF wants good content, they'll need to help human contributors get access to more sources. Sure, this GLAM stuff sounds great, but it's not going to help me write an article. I'm deeply skeptical of machine-generated content. If done properly, it could conceivably be useful. And if we're talking about populating Wikidata, then it's substantially less of a bad idea. That doesn't make it good idea, though. I hope that test runs and public discussion are planned before any kind of automated content is added anywhere.

NinjaRobotPirate's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach 7: Contributors need access to high quality sources to write high quality content. This includes initiatives like The Wikipedia Library, which grants access to subscription-only sources.
• Approach 3: This sounds vaguely useful, but it's difficult to understand what exactly it's about.
• Approach 4: Useful. But how can I do anything about this if I don't access to sources?

Arvidex

Response by Arvidex 11:08, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Arvidex's response to the critical question

1

Arvidex's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

4, 3

Drahtloser

Response by Drahtloser 15:30, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Drahtloser auf die Hauptfrage

...hier schreiben...

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Drahtloser

Delete the idea of a "gender gap" from the community minds: Thinking is not limited to genus. But bullying appears to be a real threat. It creates a hard disappointment, when uninforned and unproductive "authors" focus on "delete" and "merge" and succeed without brains.

Hendrikvander

Response by Hendrikvander 10:48, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Hendrikvander's response to the critical question

Two

Hendrikvander's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

One, Three and six: rinse and repeat. Partner up with Universities, booksellers, scientists etc. to improve the accuracy, timeliness and range of information. Consider incorporating a Google search engine for scientific publications and documentations; then display the website contents on the wikimedia page (after getting permission of course).

Hollth

Response by Hollth 11:19, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Hollth's response to the critical question

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IMO  having a larger Community focus will result in better Knowledge more than Knowledge will lead to a larger/ better Community. I.e., Knowledge seems mostly a consequence and does not seem like it will address the fundamental issues that threaten WMF self sustenance.

Hollth's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

...write here… Six, two, one. NOT four.

Six appears to be a very high risk, high reward strategy, so I definitely would not put many eggs in that basket, however I would still think it wise to invest in this for the long term.

Two appears to have the simultaneous benefit of addressing the community aspect as well. I would encourage this to expand to universities and clubs to further emphasis the community aspect. IMO having a larger Community focus will result in better Knowledge more than Knowledge will lead to a larger/ better Community.

One also looks like it is twofold in dealing with Reach and Knowledge, so I have to say that looks to be a prime candidate on a first glance cost benefit analysis.

I've also included NOT four. In short, believe this will be a money sink. There will always be systematic bias of some kind. It is in essence a statistical truth analogous to how individual variance leads to evolution. The conglomeration of all the variance will always have some deviation. In the context of WMF the bias mostly comes from the volunteers origins (e.g. male, anglo) and interests and addressing that would require a monumental amount of time, effort and money that I believe would be best utilised in other areas of Knowledge (or even better IMO, Community and Reach). As most people know, it takes much longer to do a task that one is either not interested in or unaware of.

Aspiriniks

Response by Aspiriniks 19:12, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Aspiriniks auf die Hauptfrage

None of the six approaches makes sense. For the reader, Wikipedia is perfect as it is. If the communities of some languages want some help, give it to them, but accept that what makes sense for one language (for instance having articles written by bots) does not automatically make sense for others. What could be discussed in the communities would be an abstract in the beginning of long articles, where the content of the article is condensed on 5 to 10 % of the article length within a box, but this should not be forced on the communities (and it would be possible without any technical change, only maybe by introducing a URL like de.wikipedia.org/abstract/Martin_Luther to only load the abstract without the rest of the article).

HHill

Response by HHill 22:19, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

HHill's response to the critical question

As has been noted above, the term knowledge sits badly with some of the proposed strategic approaches. Looking at todays content of Wikidata and infoboxes, said snippets, devoid of context, might be useful for identification and disambiguation purposes. But most of them probably do not constitute knowledge one should bother memorizing, e.g. for an examination at university. At best it's the stuff one should know where to look up.
Tablets, e-book readers and even smartphones could also serve as plattforms for quite long (maybe even literally epic) texts that to this day have only been transmitted by e. g. palm leaf manuscript. Wikisource quite possibly has the potential to become a central site for e-books of old or even ancient texts in asian and african languages. On the one hand it should provide texts in formats usable by the most common devices, on the other hand it should be compatible with scholarly text encoding standards and practices. Learning from (and perhaps cooperating with) institutions such as the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, who engaged in the preservation of texts (and knowledge) long before the advent of the internet, the Wikimedia Foundation could serve as a hub and a facilitator for volunteers all over the world. Digitizing manuscripts held by their traditional keepers or scattered (and, being often only badly catalogued, mostly hidden) in small collections e.g. in libraries in Europe and America and transcribing the texts contained therein will give those texts a whole new audience (and add valuable content to our projects that is not just badly translated from e. g. en.wikipedia).

HHill's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

• Approach two
• Approach four

Kein Einstein

Response by Kein Einstein 10:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Antwort von Kein Einstein auf die Hauptfrage

3

Top 2-3 (oder teile uns deine eigene Idee mit) von Kein Einstein

6, 5

Chris Rodgers

Response by Chris Rodgers 10:53, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Chris Rodgers's response to the critical question

Paradoxically, I suspect the way to best adapt to changing knowledge needs is by being less restrictive regarding sources - policy creep being a real problem - rather than more.

Chris Rodgers's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. 5 has utility, #3 I'm suspicious of since I sometimes trust users more than editors, but #7: be less restrictive of content rather than more. I believe WP was not meant to be a mere parroting of secondaries already out there in abundance.

ArnoldReinhold

Response by ArnoldReinhold 21:34, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

ArnoldReinhold's response to the critical question

Quality is all important. I think the number on threat to Wikimedia quality is link rot. Our content must be verifiable and that requires links to sources. We have tens of millions of such links, too many for volunteers to effectively patrol for rot. We need automated tools to archive linked material in our own or tower's repositories.

The second biggest threat is the accumulation of small changes, through well intentioned but poorly sourced edits of undetected vandalism. Article reviews are one way to improve quality, but they would be much more useful if there was an easy way to display the difference between the current state of an article and its state at its last review.--ArnoldReinhold (talk) 21:34, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

ArnoldReinhold's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach 1 should begin by providing ways to at least accept common multimedia formats. My least favorite is number six. I really scares me.--ArnoldReinhold (talk) 21:34, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Baruneju

Response by Baruneju 17:24, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Baruneju 's response to the critical question

Expand the availability of reliable sources for the editors (i.e Wikipedia Library), also by easing the access to them (also from a technological point of view).

Create and improve solutions to identify loops of information (i.e. wikipedia using a newspaper as source, but the newspaper used wikipedia as source).

Baruneju 's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

2,3,7.

Ad Huikeshoven

Response by Ad Huikeshoven 18:42, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Ad Huikeshoven's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

What do you think is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to adapt to changing knowledge needs of readers (short snippets, diverse formats, language, etc.) and to help facilitate content quality?

Our readers love to read human generated and curated content. Readers what to find information. They don't want to spend time searching. Google provides a search engine to find information on Wikipedia. Reimburse the quarter million dollar to the Knight Foundation. The movement doesn't need their money. Do something in support of the volunteer base with which the Foundation is endowed.

Ad Huikeshoven's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

• Anything but 6.
• Integrate Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia futher. The semantic relationships on Wikidata allow tagging of articles titles just like categories on Wikipedia or on Commons. Those tags can be multilingual on Wikidata. Move the categories from Commons and Wikipedia to Wikidata, so users can look for images in category names in any language on Commons for example. Having the tags on Wikidata will make it possible to search for articles that fit multiple tags.

Romaine

Response by Romaine 05:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Romaine's antwoord op de kritieke vraag

• Make mobile editing much much much easier.
• Work closer together with OpenStreetMap as Wikipedia is used more and more for finding knowledge about geographic sites and improve the possibilities in geotagging of articles.

Romaine's top 2-3 (of deel je eigen idee)

Approach five: we need more tools (or better working ones) to make translations easier and to make sharing knowledge between two language versions easier.

And approach one: like special:nearby is great, but not developed further enough. It needs more development to make it easier to access local knowledge, knowledge that is around you.

Ghilt

Response by Ghilt 09:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Ghilt's response to the critical question

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Ghilt's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

3, 4

Discott

Response by Discott 22:20, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Discott's response to the critical question

A very good question and one that is of great importance.

Discott's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

In no particular order:

• Approach 1: articles could be greatly increase by making it easier to add more and better multimedia sources to articles
• Approach 3: It would be super awesome if we had more and better tools to illustrate content. A good example might be tools to help create interactive data visualisations.
• Approach 4: Systemic bias is a problem which distorts the 'structure' of knowledge on Wikipedia by providing an incomplete account of the overall human experience of global knowledge.

Thuthu77

Response by Thuthu77 18:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Thuthu77's response to the critical question

Once again, I have to go with approach one as the best strategy to use right now. Through this approach will Wikimedia be able to adapt to the current modern features of the internet. This includes abilities such as, to see videos on Wiki Websites and ways to share content on social media platforms. Approach two and four are also very good strategies that i can get by as well.

Thuthu77's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

All ideas posted here are really good strategic approaches that i really can't think of any more to add. In conclusion though i wanna say is that all of these strategies and approaches across the three sections can be achieved if we all (the Wikimedia community) chip in, however big or small it may be. Together we can all change Wikimedia for the better and help make the movement create an impact on the whole world.

Ashaio

Response by Ashaio 21:18, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Ashaio's response to the critical question

Instead of (or in addition to) approach 4 I propose to measure the complexity (reading level) of the articles, and to organize projects to reduce it. Simple English Wikipedia is a great example.

Ashaio's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Strong support for approaches 2 and 6. Also approach 5.

NickK

Response by NickK 03:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

NickK's response to the critical question

There are two questions here:

1. Changing needs: we should not change our approach. I do not get the point about "short snippets": what can we do with this? Is this a new fancy name for stubs in small Wikipedias? Or does anyone want to replace, say, a Wikivoyage guide with a short snippet? This is not the way to go, we should find ways to improve our content and present it in a better and a more user-friendly way. Of course we need higher-quality materials to meet expectations, but this is not enough. Let us develop 3D models, improve videos support, provide reacher diagrams and maps etc.: that's what our readers will appreciate.
2. Facilitate content quality: we seriously lack sources. We have a lot of knowledge locked somewhere in printed form under copyright: books we can use to improve Wikipedia, works we can scan and upload to Wikisource, images we can upload on Commons etc. Please help us unlock them and share them with public. Please also facilitate content curation by sharing best tools and practices: many wikis have successful initiatives but we know little about them.

I would like to pay particular attention to the word "language". Wikimedia projects are multilingual and we should have neither "changing language needs" nor "key languages". There are no "good" and "bad" languages, we should support Wikimedia projects in all available languages. Most people do you a favour by answering in English (and not in their mother tongue) here, please do them a favour as well and give the same attention to their language as you would give to any other language — NickK (talk) 03:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

NickK's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

1. Approach three: if successful this would be a major step forward, as tools for curating content are far from efficient at the moment.
2. Approach two
3. A mix of approaches 1 and 6 to support Wikidata. Wikidata has an excellent knowledge database but unfortunately it is very badly presented to our readers. I believe that our "quick lookup users" can get a much better experience of Wikidata as Wikidata can generate an excellent quick summary of any topic. We underestimate this opportunity and reinvent the wheel: we should make Wikidata a powerful tool for readers, not just a feeder tool for Wikipedia.

One particular point about approach four. It is so English Wikipedia-centric again: do you seriously believe Basque Wikibooks need this? I think they need content first, not looking for non-existent gender bias — NickK (talk) 03:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Papischou

Response by Papischou 08:47, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Réponse de Papischou à la question critique

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Top 2-3 de Papischou (ou partagez vos idées)

Approche 1,2 & 3

Pakeha

Response by Pakeha 11:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Pakeha's response to the critical question

I'm not an expert in this. Spontaneously I would just answer: Improve Wikidata and publicize it nearly as much as Wikipedia!

Pakeha's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approaches 2, 3 and 6. Multimedia content is fine as well, but mobile users are also able to browse longer texts.

Charles Matthews

Response by Charles Matthews 19:56, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Charles Matthews's response to the critical question

Approach Five. If Wikidata shows nothing else, it is that there are two topics out there not covered by enWP for every one that is; and the ratio is much larger for the other languages. I'd start by beefing up the ArticleWizard, which is not a great example of how to do a "holding area". Charles Matthews (talk) 19:56, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Charles Matthews's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

There is an untackled issue with referencing, which is going to be a limiting factor, going forward, for verifiable knowledge.

First step is to separate content from presentation with references. Already this is radical, but ought to be the natural continuation of the Visual Editor. Then find the good way of consolidating references. That has to be seen in the context of open access and data mining.

Truth is, facts are "cheap"; collating verifiable facts into prose our area of expertise, when reference material is wanted.

We need a direction on the "substrate" of our work, for example to tackle link rot in a way that isn't ad hoc. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:56, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Aegis Maelstrom

Response by Aegis Maelstrom 23:54, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Aegis Maelstrom's response to the critical question

As mentioned before, new UIs/UXes are needed to invite participants unable (not computer literate enough, not having time or a proper device) or unwilling (e.g. because they have their attention span lowered with social media) to participate in the old production model.

1. New projects, interfaces, production and usage models are needed. Commons, references and links should be structured and converted to Wikidata. More games and tasks with new UX (e.g. a game where players are verifying particular claims, with simple tablet, smartphone UX) should be introduced. Additional namespaces e.g. to gather relevant links, with simplified policies, should be considered.
   • Unfortunate thing is this would mean more interfaces to support: power users editing from their desktops, running bots and whatnots have different needs than e.g. mobile wikidatagame users. However, in the end of the day, as volunteers do 99+% of the work, it is the tech job to provide them proper, ergonomic tools for particular tasks.
2. Remember that in Wikimedia the process has been more important than the content. We are neither an educational organization (despite the fact that we do educate and our old mission kept saying so), nor tech organization (despite the fact we do use tech and need to invest 'more in it). We are a distributed co-operation organization; what is truly unique and successful is our content production and wikimanagement model. We could underline it more in the content area, introducing additional namespaces/projects using more wiki principles - that is with heavily relaxed rules, e.g. collaborative discussion merged with information, with no NPOV etc. (sth like old c2 or MeatBallWiki could be considered).

Aegis Maelstrom's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

Approach seven: provide new UIs, tools and activities for new usergroups / usage scenarios (e.g. I ride on a subway with Internet access and I would like to check the edits on my observed list / play some wikidata game / add categories to the Commons articles etc. on my mobile device). Perhaps we could make it even more of a game, collaborative and fun.

Approach three, six.

Alexmar983

Response by Alexmar983 00:23, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Alexmar983's response to the critical question

Approach 1 is ok.

Does number 2 mean basically more GLAM? ok, but do we have the money for that? In many countries these institutions are penniless. Is it also funny how we seem to care about the gap with poor countries, but not so much the gaps inside rich countries. A small mountain city council has no mean compared to a big town. Maybe it is easy and probably more interesting to start from there than from a big town where soon or later money for a project can be found.

Approach 3 is ok, maybe too vague, but it always useful.

Approach 4 is vague. On itWiki I helped the refining one of the article about a women, I work with women, but I have no idea what can make th situation better. I would start with some good list from wikidata. We have too many to do's list, it's dispersive.

Approach 5: I helped to introduce the CT/CX to itwiki, it is not "great". Crossed finger for the future.

Approach 6: ok, whatever you can implement is welcome. As usual, we should be free to test it on some platforms, opt-out on others.

Alexmar983's top 2-3 (or share your own idea)

I prefer 3 and 6