This is very interesting and very cool! Beyond what Discovery is working on (i.e., sample alternative portal pages), this could obviously be a useful widget for the main pages of various wikipedias and other wikis, which often have a news section. An automated news/trending section could be very useful there, too.
To Oliver's concern about being willing (and able) to productize it if it's successful: I see his point, but I think we could also give some moral support to, help popularize, and generally show off cool stuff that we can't or won't (or even aren't needed to!) productize. I see it as an opportunity to create a positive feedback loop of ideas and exposure with other people and projects. —Trey Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, 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 <https://www.wikipedia.org>. > > 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/ and > http://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 > >
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