On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Aidan Hogan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > So at my university the undergraduate students must do a three-month work > towards writing a final short thesis. Generally this work doesn't need to > involve research but should result in a final demonstrable outcome, meaning > a tool, application, something like that. > > The students are in Computer Science and have taken various relevant courses > including Semantic Web, Big Data, Data Mining, and so forth. > > I was wondering if there was, for example, a list of possible topics > internally within Wikidata ... topics that students could work on with some > guidance here and there from a professor. (Not necessarily research-level > topics, but also implementation or prototyping tasks, perhaps even regarding > something more speculative, or "wouldn't it be nice if we could ..." style > topics?) > > If there is no such list, perhaps it might be a good idea to start thinking > about one? > > The students I talk with are very interested in doing tasks that could have > real-world impact and I think in this setting, working on something relevant > to the deployment of Wikidata would be a really great experience for them > and hopefully also of benefit to Wikidata. > > (And probably there are other professors in a similar context looking for > interesting topics to assign students.)
Hi Aidan, Thanks for reaching out. Such a list exists: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90870 However it doesn't make a lot of sense without some guidance. Some of these topics also already have someone interested in working on them. It is best to have a quick call with me to discuss it. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
