Research talk:Micro-task Generator for Organizers on Wikipedia

Exporting to wikitable

One idea could be to export the results into a Wikitable, perhaps something like this:

#	Article Title	Quality	Page Views (1 year)	Progress	Potential Needs	Topics	Countries
1	Taibah Al-Ibrahim	Stub	129	20%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	Kuwait
2	Tove Alsterdal	Stub	739	23%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Europe, Geography, Northern Europe, Regions	Sweden
3	Amaia Alvarez Uria	Start	313	30%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, Europe, Geography, Literature, Regions, Southern Europe, Women	Spain
4	Soledad Álvarez	Start	1247	29%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories	Americas, Central America, Culture, Geography, Literature, Regions	Dominican Republic
5	Shurooq Amin	Stub	88	16%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more sources, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Asia, Biography, Culture, Geography, Literature, Regions, West Asia, Women	Kuwait
6	Germaine Kouméalo Anaté	Stub	77	13%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more sources, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Africa, Geography, Regions, Western Africa	Togo
7	Andrea Stewart	Stub	412	24%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Books, Culture, Literature, Media	United States
8	Neshani Andreas	Stub	118	15%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, Add more sources, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Africa, Geography, Regions, Southern Africa	Namibia
9	Baudonivia	Stub	156	23%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article structure, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, Europe, Geography, History, History and Society, Literature, Regions, Western Europe, Women	No countries detected
10	Begoña Bilbao Alboniga	Start	189	27%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Europe, Geography, Regions, Southern Europe	Spain

SEgt-WMF (talk) 16:29, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

The generator does not generate any data for pl.wikipedia.org articles

I tested several, and the table is empty, "-" across all fields, with no error message. Tarkowski (talk) 18:44, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

It works! Thanks. Tarkowski (talk) 20:08, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Wishlist

Hi, as a long time fan of Wikipedia lists, I like this tool a lot! Some ideas that came to mind:

• Random articles for a Wikipedia. If you are bored and just want to do something.
• The result table needs reflow on mobile, rows=>cards and cells=>rows. Consider using bootstrap etc that give you this for free.
• The PetScan tool can give you a list of articles in a category tree, not just the category itself. Example. JSON output (with CORS!) available.

--Magnus Manske (talk) 08:58, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Adding to @Magnus Manske wishlist:

• Provide a sample category that people can click on to try it out. Right now it's a blank screen and I need to open another tab to hunt for a possible article or category to even see some basic results.
• Is it possible to pass in parameters via the URL? This would aid one-click linking to useful results right away. Parameters might be like: "?lang=en&category=Geothermal_energy&count=100&mode=execute"
• Simplify the task list. Right now the word "Add" shows up a lot, so the display could be more simple or even color coded for faster scanning. If they are displayed as "pills" that would help separate the different tasks.
  • Example: Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content
  • Alternative: More references, More internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Images or other media, Infobox, More relevant categories, Article too short, try to expand the content

Otherwise, very cool tool and congrats! - Fuzheado (talk) 13:17, 4 May 2026 (UTC)