Raja Lumu, the first sultan of #Selangor

His father and son both have articles in one #Wikipedia. In all other Wikipedias they are red links. His son was his successor and second sultan of Selangor.

When a new article gets written on Ibrahim Shah of Selangor, it is a best practice to link this article to other articles. Given the existing links in articles to other articles, there is already a concept cloud for Raja Ibrahim Shah. This "concept cloud" will include his father, his successor and child among others. 

With a bit of luck, these concepts have labels in Wikidata and when they have not, it makes sense to add them and get familiarised with them. All these concepts are likely to be used in the new article. 

When the concepts known to exist for an item are available while editing an article, it makes sense to use them while editing the article.

• editors become aware of relevant concepts
• editors are prompted to link to existing articles
• editors are prompted to add missing labels

Thanks,

      GerardM

Promoting #Malaysia on #Wikipedia

A story at #Slashdot has it that for six #Facebook pages an astounding $600,000.- was spend by the government of Malaysia. Only six pages... and it will be interesting to learn how they will get sufficient interest for what they have to say on only six pages.

Spending a similar amount of money wisely to promote Malaysia on Wikipedia will not only have a measurable impact the impact will be sustained over a long time.

I am sure the Malaysian government already has a wealth of pictures about Malaysia, not only the pictures that may draw tourists to Malaysia but also the historic pictures, the film footage and material from archives and museums. All this can be made available without spending much money.

When Malaysia would be determined to spend $600K, it could have a photo competition about its land marks, its nature, its monuments. At the same time it could have a competition having people write Wikipedia articles in its many languages.

It would work and we can provide the statistics that prove it.
Thanks,

      GerardM