Naw, I see it as - it's a nice test. Does his ideas carry weight with the community? Is it cool? Is it not?
We'll see, since nothing has been set in stone and nothing will be until when we get the portal labs up and running and with tests available. We've got a long way to go. The portal labs is meant for the Discovery team to have a place to test things we're working on. Hope that helps! > On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unless we are comfortable with saying in advance "yes we are willing > to carry the can and productionise this if it's popular" - and we do > not have the employee skillset for that - I would thoroughly recommend > against incorporating it into the beta, which is for "stuff the > discovery team is working on and considering deploying". > > On 4 February 2016 at 18:20, Deborah Tankersley > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I had a recently had a lovely chat with Ed Saperia, a community member >> working on projects related to discovering news in Wikipedia, to let him >> know what the Discovery Team is about and what we are doing with the >> Wikipedia Portal page. >> >> Ed is working on a recommender algorithm that will provide a sortable >> listing of news, so that users of his algorithm can help make Wikipedia a >> source of news for users and readers. It's meant to be open and >> collaborative, ideally with the codebase existing on wiki like Lua modules. >> This algorithm, in theory, would be able to reference all metadata (article >> views, edits, timestamps, etc) and semantic data (categories, Wikidata >> properties) that are related to each edit. >> >> We chatted about how to make his project more informative by using Wikidata >> and that it'd be a good idea to have sections (or filters) for sports, >> deaths, celebrities, politics, etc. He'd also like to have info on why the >> recommended article is there, something like: "This [person/topic] is >> trending because X number of edits were made in the last 24 hours" or "This >> [person] is trending because X's [date of death] was added." >> >> I showed him a few trending sites that some of our community folks are >> working on that are somewhat similar: http://top.hatnote.com/ >> andhttp://www.trending.eu/en/1/. Those sites don't necessarily show as much >> rich metadata as Ed's site project hopes to have, but they're still pretty >> neat to see as trending article sites. >> >> Ed and his team of developers will be meeting in a few weeks to work on >> their project and might offer us a chance to chat with them about this >> project. I let him know that our team is hoping to launch a Portal Labs >> project for the community to view at any time and provide feedback on >> proposed Portal re-designs and enhancements. I think Ed's recommender >> algorithm project for trending articles would be fun to add in as a sample >> alternative page! >> >> Overall, he's got some very good ideas and I'm excited to see where his >> project ends up! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Deb >> >> -- >> Deb Tankersley >> Product Manager, Discovery >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
