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with other articles of other obscure villages in the same province, because they are all listed in a template for "Municipalities of X Province" that's been placed at the bottom of every member page. That's about all I have to say from my end. Just out of curiosity, why have you bothered to generate a list of articles that lack a corresponding
Wikidata item? Is that somehow indicative that a certain listing is more suitable? -
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to get some feedback & ideas to make the article even better. I didn't expect an immediate response, but 6 weeks passed before anyone took a look at it, by which time I was busy with other things and couldn't attend to the issues raised in a meaningful way. Now a few more months might pass before
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Isn't this going the wrong direction? The link to the xxx-class category from the table sure seems like it should go the category the article is placed in, rather than the generic category. I'm working on adding a category parameter for the football template and will partially revert the change to
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Your suggestions about looking at whether links are used in templates is spot on! It's something we have planned, but we are limited by resources at the moment. As you mention, some articles have a huge number of links pointing to them because they are mentioned in infoboxes or navboxes, and I know
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One suggestion I do have, in case you haven't thought of it, is when considering the number of
Wikilinks that go to a page, see if the link is listed in a template. Many a time I've looked at "What links here" for some obscure village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, only to find it clogged
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and related centers is beginning to look too much like a crapshoot. In fact, I'm willing to extend an offer: do a peer review on an
Ethiopia-related article, & I'll return the favor on one of yours. Heck, contact me about one of your Africa-related articles, & I'll take the time to offer a
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We'd love to know whether our predictions are accurate or useful. For instance, you might find that a prediction is not spot on, but enough to warrant changing the rating of a given article (e.g. we might predict Top-importance for an article that should be High-importance, but if it is currently
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One of our project's goals is to make article importance predictions for articles within a specific WikiProject, and we have been making good progress towards that goal. We are now reaching out to a handful of WikiProjects to learn more about how useful and accurate our models are. These projects
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During the past week I have been working on building a model that predicts the importance ratings of articles within the scope of WikiProject Africa. The model uses data such as number of article views, number of inlinks from other articles (and what proportion of those come from within the
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rated Low-importance both cases warrant an update of that rating). If our predictions are wrong, please let us know about that too! There might be aspects of importance that our model does not catch and we want to understand what those are so we can see if there are ways to fix them.
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What I would like to see is for other
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I've made this same point on several other project. It is extremely subjective and seems to be determined by whoever feels they "own" the article. Take importance ratings with a pinch of salt and (I would say) alter them as you see fit and see what happens. An
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Very ambitious goal you have here, and if it succeeds it would be of great help to the project. I'm sure you've put plenty of analyses into that list you've generated, but I do have some observations:
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