Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-28 Thread Morten Wang
Apologies for being somewhat late to the party, our upcoming CSCW 2015 paper (coming soon to a research outlet near you!) took my attention, which is kind of ironic, as in that paper our primary method of assessing quality is a machine learner (we also use human assessments to confirm our

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Ditty, It is difficult for me to understand your question if you are not more specific of what you consider a poorly written article. Poorly can refer her to many different things, like readability, grammar, balance, statements supported by 'sources', good division of knowledge over several

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Ditty Mathew
Hi Ziko, You are right. But if the content of the article is very less or having less references, less edits, less no of images, less no of links etc, articles are of poor quality. Based on these factors, to some extent we can find the quality of article. with regards Ditty On Sat, Oct 25,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Okay. What do you think of the wikibu tool from Switzerland? It believes that the number of editors and readers etc are indicators for the quality, or at least a basis to discuss. Kind regards Ziko http://www.wikibu.ch/search.php?search=Frankfurter+Nationalversammlung 2014-10-25 14:44 GMT+02:00

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Joe Corneli
On Sat, Oct 25 2014, Ditty Mathew wrote: Hi Ziko, You are right. But if the content of the article is very less or having less references, less edits, less no of images, less no of links etc, articles are of poor quality. Based on these factors, to some extent we can find the quality of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Kerry Raymond
, 25 October 2014 11:28 PM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles Okay. What do you think of the wikibu tool from Switzerland? It believes that the number of editors and readers etc are indicators for the quality

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Ed Saperia
content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles Okay. What do you think of the wikibu tool from Switzerland? It believes that the number of editors and readers etc are indicators for the quality, or at least a basis to discuss. Kind regards Ziko http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Jack Park
Of Ziko van Dijk Sent: Saturday, 25 October 2014 11:28 PM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles Okay. What do you think of the wikibu tool from Switzerland? It believes that the number of editors and readers

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-25 Thread Aileen Oeberst
I am currently on vacation and will not be able to answer your mail before November 10. But I will get back then as soon as possible. Best regards, Aileen Oeberst ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Ditty Mathew
Hi , I am planning to develop a tool to find out the poorly written articles and rank it accordingly. This will give a statistics about which all article we have to modify to make it well written. Also finding good article in one language helps to recommend that in other language where the same

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hi Ditty! Since Aileen is on vacation (lol), I've got some references for you. - Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Terveen, L., Riedl, J. (2007, January). SuggestBot: using intelligent task routing to help people find work in wikipedia. In *Proceedings of the 12th international conference on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, What do you exactly mean by poorly written? Dnaber presented on Wikimania a LanguageTool to detect wordings that might be incorrect. Kind regards Ziko Am Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014 schrieb Aaron Halfaker : Hi Ditty! Since Aileen is on vacation (lol), I've got some references for you.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Ditty Mathew
What I meant by poorly written is the quality of article. with regards Ditty On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What do you exactly mean by poorly written? Dnaber presented on Wikimania a LanguageTool to detect wordings that might be incorrect.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Ditty Mathew
Hi Aaron, How can we evaluate the system? Is there any existing rating of articles available? with regards Ditty On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ditty! Since Aileen is on vacation (lol), I've got some references for you. - Cosley,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Ditty, Yes. See the following for discussion: Warncke-Wang, M., Cosley, D., Riedl, J. (2013, August). Tell me more: an actionable quality model for Wikipedia. In *Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration* (p. 8). ACM.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread James Salsman
Ditty, Article quality is inherently subjective in the hard-AI sense. A panel of judges will consider accurate articles full of spelling, grammar, and formatting errors superior in quality to hoax, biased, spam, or out-of-date articles with perfect grammar, impeccable spelling, and immaculate

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Simon Knight
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread WereSpielChequers
And just to add to the complexity of James' comments; there are some people who think that a general interest encyclopaedia should be written for a general audience. So articles with long sentences should be improved by rewriting into more but shorter sentences, On 24 October 2014 19:44, James

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Aileen Oeberst
I am currently on vacation and will not be able to answer your mail before November 10. But I will get back then as soon as possible. Best regards, Aileen Oeberst ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread Joe Corneli
On Sat, Oct 25 2014, WereSpielChequers wrote: And just to add to the complexity of James' comments; there are some people who think that a general interest encyclopaedia should be written for a general audience. So articles with long sentences should be improved by rewriting into more but