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If the framework developed by Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team for Knowledge Gaps is a way of talking about missing knowledge on Wikimedia projects, a topic list helps us identify specific content to fill those gaps. You may need to develop different kinds of lists in different situations, for example: 

Different Wikimedia Projects need different kinds of lists 

Each Wikimedia project is going to have different types of topic lists. Topic lists can serve different purposes on different wikis:

• Most topic lists have a 1 to 1 relationship between a topic (like a biography, location or other concept) and a content page. This is true for Wikiquote, Wikidata, Wikipedia, WikiVoyage, and Wiktionary. Typically multilingual campaigns for these projects will use Wikidata to connect these topics together (such as with <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2022" target="[object Object]">CEE Spring</a> or <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights" target="[object Object]">WikiForHumanRights</a>).
• Other Wikimedia projects my have a 1 to several relationship between a topic and an action: in particular for Wikimedia Commons one item, could be used to inspire the topic for dozens of pictures (i.e. Wiki Loves Butterflies or Monuments), or with WikiSource, an item on a list represents a whole book or textual object with multiple pages or sections (i.e. a poem or a document).

The actions needed during an event will change the topic list 

Each campaign event needs to be designed around teaching a participant to make an editing action on Wikimedia. These actions fall generally into four categories:

• Creating new Wikipedia articles, Wikidata items or Commons files that previously didn’t exist
• Improving contextual data around a topic, i.e. Improving Wikidata items or using images from Commons.
• Translating or reusing content in one part of the wikis into another wiki
• Improving the quality of existing Wikimedia pages or items, by fixing problems, adding content or improving communication.

Each action is easier for contributors with different skills, and filtering or managing a list so that you can focus users on the right contribution method for their level of experience, creates more successful events. In the rest of this sub-unit, we are going to show you some of the main approaches for developing lists used by the movement.