Update week 2021-08-23:

• Formulated the motivation for the task and relevant literature in this googledoc
• Scoped the task more clearly and sketched several approaches with varying degrees of difficulty. The most straightforward:
  • Identify articles that require inlinks, first approach: use orphaned articles, i.e. articles without incoming links
  • Identify candidate articles from which to link to the orphan article, first approach: use existing links from other language version
  • Identify text regions in the candidate article where to add the link, first approach: identify corresponding section in the language-version where the link exists (potentially using section-translation tool)
• Defined next steps for exploratory analysis to investigate whether suggested approach could work
  • Generate set of orphan articles in a given language in need of links
  • Generate dataset with link-network of all Wikipedia language version as a multilayer network
  • Generate evaluation dataset of new links that were added in a given month

Update week 2021-09-06:

• captured the project on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Recommending_links_to_increase_visibility_of_articles
• this describes the problem of recommending links to increase the visibility of articles as a structured task
• scopes the first approach to address this problem; describes the next steps for exploratory analysis

Update week 2021-10-04:

• started work on exploratory analysis of orphaned articles across languages
• generated a dataset of all links of all articles in all Wikipedias (57M articles and 3.2B links)
  • this will lay the foundation to understand how common the problem of orphan articles are (how many articles have no incoming links across languages; from those how many articles have no incoming links in all languages)
  • we can assess to which degree we can "translate" links that already exist in another article to recommend as an incoming link to an orphan-article in a specific language
• discussed with Akhil the potential of a collaboration around this project