Wikirank
| Wikirank | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | Wikirank crowdsources curated lists. Public lists are sorted by number of votes, but users can also share their private lists. Sister projects can use Wikirank services to sort any list, table, or category by popularity. Users can customize any list, which incentivizes contributions. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | Wikirank will be a single site that is automatically translated to all languages using Wikidata lexemes and item labels/descriptions. Visitors will be able to select language. Default language is chosen using browser settings or geolocation. |
| Proposed tagline | curate a better world / the best version of everything |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | see /Technical |
| Development wiki | TODO |
| Interested participants | |
| Robert Važan | |
Wikirank crowdsources curated lists by aggregating large number of private lists maintained by Wikirank contributors.
Wikimedia movement builds educational resources. Education enables people to make sense of the world and to make informed decisions. Wikirank's educational value is in its ability to separate important from unimportant, likely from unlikely, valuable from worthless. Like any other ranking signal, Wikirank has its biases and noise, but it nevertheless far outperforms unsorted lists. Wikirank can be combined with other ranking signals to fight clutter and information overload. Wikirank can be used as a discovery tool, prioritizing content that is most likely to be of interest to the reader while still including a large number of alternatives.
In addition to being valuable resource on its own, Wikirank exposes data and widgets that allow sister sites to sort their own lists and categories by popularity. Aggregate popularity statistics are published under CC-0 as universal poll data covering a large number of topics. Wikirank's ties to Wikidata encourage further development and clarification of Wikidata items.
In order to incentivize contribution, Wikirank supports personalization of its lists. Upvoting moves the item to the top in user's private version of the list. Downvoting hides the item. Since everyone's interests are slightly different, users are motivated to customize the list via upvotes and downvotes in order to save time during subsequent visits to the list page. Upvotes also serve as persistent memory for items of interest.
Proposed by[edit]
- Robert Važan - Wikidata lexeme contributor, professional software developer
Alternative names[edit]
Wikirank, Wikicollections, Wikivote, Wikipoll, Wikisurvey, Wikifavs/Wikifavorites, Wikicurator, Wikimark, Wikilist/WikiList, Wikilike/WikiLike, Wikistar
Domain names[edit]
Just suggestions:
- X.wikidata.org / X.wikimedia.org where X is top, lists, rank, curated, ...
- www.wikiX.org where X is rank, vote, curator, ...
Demos[edit]
Example lists:
- Relational databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, ...
- 2020 movies
- Totally Under Control, Welcome to Chechnya, ...
- Alternatives to Whatsapp
- Signal, Telegram, ...
- Landmarks in Paris
- Eiffel Tower, Tuileries Garden, ...
- Paintings by Pablo Picasso
- Avignon, Acrobat, ...
TODO: live mock of the site
Details[edit]
See Wikirank/Details.
People interested[edit]
Discussion[edit]
You can post questions and comments on the talk page, which is ideal for longer discussions. Support/oppose votes as well as brief notes can be dropped in the list below.
Support As the person proposing the project. — Robert Važan (talk) 18:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Useful and needed. How to fight spam though? Vis M (talk) 16:52, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support LGTM. Can probably help if this is successful. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 12:54, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Support the project seems to be useful and interesting. Kpjas (talk) 08:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
Oppose I’m not sure why a Wikimedia version of tier lists is useful, objective, or educational. Just sounds like a troll magnet. Dronebogus (talk) 18:57, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
