Wikisource:Changing the main page

Currently the main page shows the top ten Wikisource subdomains per article count. Some members of the community have manifested worries if that is the most adequate way to sort projects.

This page lists the pros and cons on some options. Edit it only if you have new options to propose or if you have additional pros and cons reasonings. For the vote page, see /Vote.

"Article" count

• Pros:
  • Automatic update within the wiki.
• Cons:
  • Some subdomains have custom namespaces showing information about Author, Portals etc, some subdomains don't have and hosts those pages on the main namespace. The subdomains with no custom namespaces potentially can have more "article" pages than the ones with custom namespaces.
  • Is so easy to inflate the "article" count:
    • splitting large works on more than one "article" page; all Wikisources does it. A book with 30 chapters will result in at least 31 "articles". 30 books with 30 chapters will result on at least 930 "articles";
    • following the page breaks of modern editions of public domain works (the Spanish Wikisource does it on some works). A book with 300 pages will result in at least 301 "articles". 30 books containing 300 pages will result in 9030 "articles";
    • with mass bot addtions of content (the Portuguese Wikisource is importing a public domain dictionary with more than 100-200k entries, one entry per "article");

Number of words

• Pros:
  • In theory, it may really reflect the content of a Wikisource : but are the figures good, and could the number of words of "Proofread" pages be added ? Enmerkar 18:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• Cons:
  • The length and number of words used per equivalent sentence is not invariant between languages.

ProofreadPage Statistics - All pages

• Pros:
• Cons:
  • Is so easy to inflate the ProofreadPage namespace using a bot to extract text from .djvu files (like the ones provided by the Internet Archive).

ProofreadPage Statistics - Proofread pages

• Pros:
  • Reflect the real work of contributors.
• Cons:
  • RTL bug; lack of OCR in many languages; plenty of other kinds of quality work not counted.

ProofreadPage Statistics - Validated pages

• Pros:
  • Reflect the real work of contributors.
• Cons:
  • As above: RTL bug; lack of OCR in many languages; plenty of other kinds of quality work not counted.

Page views

• Pros:
• Cons:
  • I wonder if the stats are really accurate. It surprises me that French language has more page views than English. Yann 18:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Does not necessarily represent community and content for smaller languages.