Fantastic. What a great teamn to work with. We definitely need multiple reading-levels for articles, which involves some namespace & interface magic, and new norm settings around what is possible. Only a few language projects have managed to bolt this onto the side of MediaWiki (though they include some excellent successes imo). Where does that fit into the research-practice-MW-WP roadmap?
SJ On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:13 PM Martin Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has officially started a new > Formal Collaboration [1] with Indira Sen, Katrin Weller, and Mareike > Wieland from GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences to work > collaboratively on understanding perception of readability in Wikipedia [2] > as part of the Addressing Knowledge Gaps Program [3]. We are thankful to > them for agreeing to spend their time and expertise on this project in the > coming year. > > Here are a few pieces of information about this collaboration that we would > like to share with you: > * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project in the > corresponding research page on meta [2]. > * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking systems. > This being said, the page on meta is linked to an Epic level Phabricator > task and all tasks related to this project that can be captured on > Phabricator will be captured under here [4]. > * I act as the point of contact for this research in the Wikimedia > Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it cannot be > shared publicly) if you have comments or questions about the project. > > Best, > Martin > > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations > [2] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_perception_of_readability_in_Wikipedia > [3] https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325815 > > -- > Martin Gerlach (he/him) | Senior Research Scientist | Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
