[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-25 Thread Aaron Halfaker
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347344 On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:26 PM Aaron Halfaker wrote: > It looks like user-scripts running on Wikipedia can no longer use ORES. > I'm getting a CORS error. You can test this by trying to run the > following the JS dev console on a Wikim

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-25 Thread Aaron Halfaker
, damaging, and likelihood of >> reversion. They are different if related concepts -- the first deals with >> the intent and predicted further editing history of the editor, the second >> with article accuracy and quality, and the latter with the size + >> activity + norms of t

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Sep 22, 2023 at 1:22 PM Luca Toscano wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 8:59 PM Aaron Halfaker > wrote: > >> We could definitely file a task. However, it does seem like highlighting >> the features that will no longer be available is an appropriate topic for a >

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
n an equivalent > solution in Lift Wing for all hosted models, not only revscoring ones, but > we don't have anything available now (a sort of "explainer" for the model's > metadata basically). > > Luca > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 6:01 PM Aaron Halfaker > wrote: > &

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
t;,"message":"model_info query parameter is not supported by this endpoint anymore. For more information please visit https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES"}}} But when I go to that page, nothing discusses model_info. Is there a way to get this from LiftWing? On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 8:

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
gacy too, to > maintain only one system (namely Lift Wing). There is no final date yet, > we'll try to reach out to all remaining users first, so if you plan to keep > using ores-legacy please follow up with us first :) > > Thanks! > > Luca (on behalf of the ML Team) > > On

[Wikitech-l] Re: ORES To Lift Wing Migration

2023-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Does the new ores-legacy support the same feature set. E.g. features output, injection, and threshold optimizations. Or is it just prediction? This will affect some of the systems I need to migrate. On Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 06:21 Ilias Sarantopoulos < isarantopou...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello!

[Wikitech-l] Re: How we deploy code

2021-09-27 Thread Aaron Halfaker
So succinct! Great read. It reads like the Inverted pyramid[1]: - The gist - Important details - The hairy details that you couldn't understand without the gist and important details 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:04 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] No second dump run this month

2020-03-19 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Thanks Ariel! The dumps are an invaluable resource and I really appreciate you keeping us in the loop. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:45 AM Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > As mentioned earlier on the xmldatadumps-l, the dumps are running very slow > this month, ince the vslow db hosts they use are also

Re: [Wikitech-l] A potential new way to deal with spambots

2019-02-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
ess you have huge levels of > bot > > > >> traffic from a single bot operator (also it means locking out users > > with > > > >> no > > > >> Javascript); browser and behavior analysis very likely cannot be > > > >> outsourced > &

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New ORES FAQ

2017-11-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
in that thread. On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> I thought Wikitech makes sense for a wikimedia-specific initiative. >> > > A do

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New ORES FAQ

2017-11-21 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Gergo, I thought Wikitech makes sense for a wikimedia-specific initiative. Now that you point it out, I'm all for going to mediawiki.org is everyone else is already there. Should be easy to move the landing page. -Aaron On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Gergo Tisza

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New ORES FAQ

2017-11-21 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Rainbow colors! Here's a plain text one for those who can't read the fancy colors: Hi Everyone, I've been working together with Adam and Aaron from the Scoring Platform team to identiy technical documentation in need of improvement. This past quarter, the team and I worked together on a FAQ for

[Wikitech-l] Scoring Platform Team update

2017-10-18 Thread Aaron Halfaker
/status_update_october_6_2017/ -Aaron On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'll be starting to post updates here on our new blog[1], but if you'd > prefer to be notified via the mailing lists we used to post to, that's OK

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] JADE needs your feedback

2017-10-05 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Before anyone comes up with something weird, JADE is pronounced like the ornamental rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade :) On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > (cross-posting to Wikitech and Wikidata; Wikidata is getting this due to > the

[Wikitech-l] Scoring Platform Team update

2017-07-12 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks! I just posted a new update to the blog. This update covers roughly the last month. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/58/status_update_july_11th_2017/ As of July 1st, we are officially the Scoring Platform team. We're welcoming Adam Wight to the team officially.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] ORES is down

2017-06-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
And we're down again. The problem seems to have started at 1345 UTC today. We're still working to figure out why On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > FYI: ORES is back online from CODFW only, but we still haven't identified > th

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] ORES is down

2017-06-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
FYI: ORES is back online from CODFW only, but we still haven't identified the root cause. We'll keep this thread updated and provide an incident report once we've got the problem stabilized. 2017-06-23 5:57 GMT-07:00 Amir Tafreshi : > Hey, > ORES right now is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] ORES service is having trouble

2017-06-13 Thread Aaron Halfaker
FYI: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170613-ORES On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Amir Tafreshi < amir.tafreshi_...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Update, > Everything is normal now. See the ticket for more details. > > Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this incident. >

[Wikitech-l] Scoring Platform Team update

2017-06-03 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, I'll be starting to post updates here on our new blog[1], but if you'd prefer to be notified via the mailing lists we used to post to, that's OK. I'll make sure that the highlights and the link to these posts gets pushed there too. We had a big presence at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017

Re: [Wikitech-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

2017-06-01 Thread Aaron Halfaker
The AMA is live. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6epiid/im_the_principal_research_scientist_at_the/ On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey everybody, > > TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcomi

[Wikitech-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

2017-05-24 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey everybody, TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers. We plan to hold this

[Wikitech-l] Scoring Platform Team update

2017-04-14 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, In this update, I'm going to change some things up to try and make this update easier for you to consume. The biggest change you'll notice is that I've broken up the [#] references in each section. I hope that saves you some scrolling and confusion. You'll also notice that I have

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2017-03-16 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks! I should really stop calling this a weekly update because it's getting a bit silly at this point. :) But if it were a weekly update, it would cover the weeks of 42 - 46. *Highlights:* - 3 new models: Finnish Wikipedia (reverted) and Estonian Wikipedia (damaging & goodfaith)

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2017-02-07 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks! This is the 32 - 41st weekly update from the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We've been busy, but our reporting fell behind. So here I am getting us caught up! This is going to be a long one. Bear with me. One major thing we've done in the past few

[Wikitech-l] The Revision scoring weekly update

2016-11-29 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 30th and 31st weekly update from the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We accidentally skipped a week again. *New development:* - We added a new "lowest" sensitivity level to ORES review tool. This new sensistivity level will only flag edits

[Wikitech-l] Awesome AI topics in need of discussion (Dev Summit)

2016-11-18 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, I'm your friendly facilitator for who forgot that today was the last day to gather discussion on a set of topics of the Dev Summit. I might be a bit biased, but I think they are all pretty interesting, so I'm reaching out with a quick overview to see if I can spur some interest from

[Wikitech-l] The Revision scoring weekly update

2016-11-10 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 29th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. Deployments: - We deployed logging changes to ORES that will reduce the verbosity[1] - We also deployed revscoring 1.3.0 and new models built with it to WMF labs[2]. This won't

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-10-24 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 26th and 27th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We forgot to send the update for last week! Last week, we were featured in Research's quarterly review. In the last 3 months, we achieved our goals to expand the ORES extension to 6

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-10-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 24th and 25th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. We skipped a week due to travel and other work. Maintenance and robustness: - We improved the performance of RecentChanges fitlering in the ORES extension[1] - We built and

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-09-28 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 23rd weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New development - We implemented and demonstrated a linguistic/stylometric processing strategy that should give us more signal for finding vandalism and spam[1]. See the discussion

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recent changes, notifications & pageprops

2016-09-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
I like the idea of having a unique event for this sort of thing. There's a large class of annotations like that that happen on a shifted timescale. E.g. abuse filter tags are applied after an edit is saved. If we are to build a queue of edits for review, we'd like to have up-to-date abuse filter

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-09-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 22nd weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. UI work: - We configured the default threshold for the ORES review tool on Wikidata to be more strict (higher recall, lower precision)[1] - We fixed a display issue on

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 21st weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New development - We received a request to get moving on Spanish Wikibooks support, so we dug in: - We deployed a new Wiki labels campaign[1] - We fixed an issue in Wiki labels

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-09-06 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 20th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New development: - We implemented the basic functionality for handling bag of words and other types of abstract feature vectors in `revscoring`. [1] This required some changes to some

[Wikitech-l] ORES review tool deployment status

2016-09-03 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, I recently received an email asking for more information about how to get the ORES review tool[1] deployed in more wikis (we currently support 8: wikidata, fawiki, enwiki, nlwiki, ptwiki, plwiki, trwiki, ruwiki). I figured that this summary should be shared more broadly, so I'm

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-08-29 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 19th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. Deployments: - We deployed a set of new models to ORES that reduce our memory usage and slightly increase fitness. [1] These models were discussed in an email to the "ai" mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New models coming to ORES & notes

2016-08-29 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Best > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 3:10 AM Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> We've been working on generating some updated models for ORES. These >> models will behave slightly differently from the models that we cur

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] Deployment of ORES review tool in Englis Wikipedia as a beta feature

2016-08-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > Thanks for the detailed explanation, Aaron. As always your work is a model > in transparency for the rest of us :) > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:40 PM Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Luis! T

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] Deployment of ORES review tool in Englis Wikipedia as a beta feature

2016-08-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hi Luis! Thanks for taking a look. First, I should say that false-positives should be expected. We're working on better signaling in the UI so that you can differentiate the edits that ORES is confident about and those that it isn't confident about -- but are still worth your review. So, in

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-08-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 18th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *Communications:* - Aaron presented on how user-feedback has been helping us address some sneaky biases in ORES' models. [1, 2, 3] *New development:* - We included 'autoreview' and

[Wikitech-l] New models coming to ORES & notes

2016-08-19 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, We've been working on generating some updated models for ORES. These models will behave slightly differently from the models that we currently have deployed. This is a natural artifact of retraining the models on the *exact same data* again because of some random properties of the

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-08-08 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, This is the 16th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. New developments: - We created dashboards for the ORES service in the Beta cluster[1] and created panes for tracking failed jobs[2]. - We extended the documentation for the

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-08-02 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey, This is the 15th weekly update from revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - We'll no longer unnecessarily load the models into memory on the web workers[1]. - We can now score multiple models against the same revision ID for

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-07-13 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Looks like the frwiki version is at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Label, not https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Labels :) FWIW, the frwiki version is working for me just fine. Let me know if it still doesn't work at the appropriate URL. Then, I think that Amir might be

[Wikitech-l] ORES going into production

2016-06-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, We (The Revision Scoring Team[1]) are happy to announce the deployment of the ORES service[2] in production at a new address: https://ores.wikimedia.org. This will replace the old Wikimedia Labs address soon: https://ores.wmflabs.org. Along with this new location, we are running on

[Wikitech-l] The revision scoring weekly update

2016-06-20 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, This is the 9th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. The biggest news is that we've officially deployed the ORES review tool[1] to Persian Wikipedia and Wikidata[2,9]. We'll be posting a more complete announcement to Wikitech-l soon.

[Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-05-31 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hi folks, This is the 6th weekly update for the revision scoring team that we have sent to this mailing list. *New developments:* - We set up a system for expiring labeling tasks after they have not been completed [3] - We set up the ORES service in the Beta cluster [8]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wired article about machine learning

2016-05-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Just a quick thought that I shared in IRC earlier. AI isn't magical. It's pretty cool, but you're not going to have a > conversation with ORES > . > It's not false that we are closer to strong "conversational" AI than ever

[Wikitech-l] Revision Scoring weekly update

2016-05-10 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, This is the weekly update for the Revision Scoring project for the week of April 2nd through April 8th. *New developments:* - Solved some issues that block a major performance improvement for score requests using multiple models[2] - Improved the performance of feature

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updates to ORES service & BREAKING CHANGE on April 7th

2016-04-30 Thread Aaron Halfaker
ions using Apache Flink. > http://imwa.gehaxelt.in:9090/pdfs/expose.pdf > However, it would be nice to have a somehow compatible API in the end. > > Best > Moritz > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > FYI, the new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Weekly update

2016-04-25 Thread Aaron Halfaker
FYI: not the first update on the revscoring project. See updates going back years here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service This is, however, the first email update and the first weekly update in a while :) On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Amir Ladsgroup

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

2016-04-07 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Ori said: > I would like us to consider the contribution that modifications to the user > experience make to the > interpersonal climate on the wikis. > > I think that this is important. Our social experience in computer mediated spaces is intertwined with the technologies that manage our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Updates to ORES service & BREAKING CHANGE on April 7th

2016-04-07 Thread Aaron Halfaker
FYI, the new models (BREAKING CHANGE) are now deployed. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, we have a couple of announcements for you today. First is that > ORES has a large set of new functionality that you might like to take

Re: [Wikitech-l] ORES extension soon be deployed, help us test it

2016-02-21 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey Antoine, Can you point us to any docs on setting up extensions in the Beta cluster? -Aaron On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 19/02/2016 23:35, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : > > Hey all, > > TLDR: ORES extension [1] which is an extension that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Appreciation thread, 2015

2015-12-05 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Oooh! Great idea. Thanks to: * DarTar: for being an awesome manager. My meeting load was cut in half over the last few months and that has let me work much more productively on the tech/science of Wikimedia. I should also mention the organizing work he is doing to turn citations and scholarly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Random rant

2015-10-28 Thread Aaron Halfaker
> I think the point of the approval process is that I don't install OAuth app key in the application like Vicuña (https://github.com/yarl/vicuna). This is the only argument I have heard in favor of keeping the review queue, and yet, I don't see how such an issue would be caught in review of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Random rant

2015-10-28 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Sorry, I know about that RFC Bryan. I was referring to the conversation with the Stewards about "taking on the process" that Chris referred to. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Aaron

Re: [Wikitech-l] Random rant

2015-10-28 Thread Aaron Halfaker
e here) there should be no process for them to adopt. -Aaron On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Is there a clearly good reason that we need to co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Research articles on MediaWiki spam/artificial intelligence

2015-10-12 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Nick, Please feel free to reach out to me (ahalfa...@wikimedia.org) if you have any questions. I'm happy to share our training sets and code with you. :) You can also find us on IRC in #wikimedia-ai on freenode . -Aaron On Mon, Oct 12, 2015

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Frances Hocutt

2015-05-25 Thread Aaron Halfaker
\o/ Wooo! Welcome :) On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Anne Gomez ago...@wikimedia.org wrote: Yay! I'm so glad this is official. Welcome, and I'm excited to work more with you. On Monday, May 25, 2015, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm excited to announce that Frances Hocutt has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editing impact on mobile

2015-04-29 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, As requested, I started a research project page to do some analysis around this. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_anonymous_apocalypse It's just a stub now. I'll have to clear a few other projects off my plate in order to pick this one up. You should expect to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Wikimedia referrer policy

2015-01-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Cool. Good idea. /me flags for reading this weekend. On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: I’ve been discussing with the folks at CrossRef (the largest registry of Digital Object Identifiers, think of it as the ICANN of science) how to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision metadata as a service?

2014-11-08 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey Erik, I'm glad to see that we're imagining similar things. :) This project has been on my to-do list for years. I don't think that building a well-designed service and starting in labs are conflicting options. Regardless this project is marching forward in the next couple of months. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: slight change to the XML dump format

2014-10-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
I spend a lot of time processing the XML dumps that this will affect. I just wanted to chime in to say that this change makes sense to me and it won't affect my work. -Aaron On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: tl;dr: In the xml dumps, I want to change

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Bikeshedding a good name for the api.php API

2014-08-15 Thread Aaron Halfaker
As a heavy user, I generally just refer to the things api.php does as the API. or MediaWiki's web API when I'm feeling verbose. I'd be confused about the action API since I generally use it to read which isn't really action -- even though it corresponds to action=query As for the proposed REST

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patrolling on english wikipedia

2013-12-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=queryprop=revisionsrevids=585593930rvprop=tagsformat=jsonfm Returns: { query: { pages: { 12461: { pageid: 12461, ns: 0, title: Gradient, revisions: [

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Devlopment Training

2013-12-10 Thread Aaron Halfaker
I'm bummed that I won't be able to join in since this overlaps substantially with the Analytics Research Data showcase that starts @ 11:30 AM PST. Would you be interested in recording the presentation for those of us who cannot attend? -Aaron On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Chris Steipp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Participation in an Aaron Swartz Hackathon event

2013-10-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Coincidentally, the us WMF Researchers have been working with some academics and community members to organize a global research hackathon on Nov. 9th. See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013 And: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:L2 -Aaron On

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving anti-vandalism tools (twinkle, huggle etc) - suspicious edits queue

2013-09-27 Thread Aaron Halfaker
I've got to say that this problem seems pretty straightforward. Essentially, we need something lighter than 'revert' for edits that need a second set of eyes. What we really want is a queue of suspect revisions that allows Wikipedians to flag new revisions, query current flagged revisions and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improving anti-vandalism tools (twinkle, huggle etc) - suspicious edits queue

2013-09-27 Thread Aaron Halfaker
If you use Huggle and see something ok (= not to be reverted), Huggle must mark it patrolled; if you're unsure, you should be able to tell so to Huggle and it will be left unpatrolled. This is not the same. Surely, most edits would appear in such an unpatrolled list. Most edits are not seen by