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Best regards! ミラP@Miraclepine 17:57, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject tagging edit

Hi, I understand that you do not want Bernard Jim Jansen (Q24515365) to be mis-framed as a mathematician, but I do not understand why you object to that item being in scope of WikiProject Mathematics. Can you please explain? Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:13, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Daniel Mietchen: Hello,
how do items benefit from being on the WikiProject Mathematics?--Schleckbrausefüllung (talk) 15:15, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
The purpose of WikiProjects is to facilitate collaborative curation within a given scope, so inclusion in the WikiProject renders the item visible in WikiProject-specific curation and discovery workflows and can direct attention to the item. This can take many different forms, and for WikiProject Mathematics, the details are still being worked out, but one example is a shared Recent Changes feed that can be used to check for spam, vandalism or to find new contributors or learn about new properties or tools. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:41, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Daniel Mietchen: Are there collaborators using it besides you?--Schleckbrausefüllung (talk) 15:52, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
The history and talk pages of the WikiProject give an indication. It is not a very crowded WikiProject, and one of the motivations behind the tagging is to make it easier (e.g. via tools like Integraality that gives tables like this) to identify inconsistencies, gaps, problems or anything else with which to engage as a group and across multiple items. See here for an overview of other WikiProjects using maintained by WikiProject (P6104); others use on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008). --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:15, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply