Thanks for all the comments! I think we have some exciting times ahead of us! :)
Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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