Hold on, is this fact correct? "One motivation for the project is a significant decline in the number of people considered active contributors to the flagship English-language Wikipedia: it has fallen by 40 percent over the past eight years, to about 30,000."
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Wooooo hoooo. > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's mentioned in the MIT Review here: >> >> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544036/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-make-wikipedia-friendlier-and-better/ >> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > This is really cool! Congrats to everyone who worked on this. >> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:51 PM Dario Taraborelli < >> > dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> > >> > > (cross-posting from wikitech-l) >> > > >> > > Today we published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the >> > > official launch of revision scoring as a service < >> > > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service> >> > > and I wanted to say a few words about this project: >> > > >> > > Blog post: >> > > >> > >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ >> > > < >> > > >> > >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ >> > > > >> > > Docs on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES < >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES> >> > > >> > > First off: what’s revision scoring < >> > > >> > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Rationale >> > >? >> > > On the surface, it’s a set of open APIs allowing you to automatically >> > > “score” any edit and measure their probability of being damaging or >> > > good-faith contributions. The real goal behind this project, though, >> is >> > to >> > > fix the damage indirectly caused by vandal-fighting bots and tools on >> > > good-faith contributors and to bring back a collaborative dimension to >> > how >> > > we do quality control on Wikipedia. I invite you to read the whole >> blog >> > > post < >> > > >> > >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ >> > > >> > > if you want to know more about the motivations and expected outcome of >> > this >> > > project. >> > > >> > > I am thrilled this project is coming to fruition and I’d like to >> > > congratulate Aaron Halfaker < >> > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Ahalfaker> and all the >> project >> > > contributors < >> > > >> > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team >> > > >> > > on hitting this big milestone: revision scoring started as Aaron’s >> side >> > > project well over a year ago and it has been co-designed (as in – >> > literally >> > > – conceived, implemented, tested, improved and finally adopted) by a >> > > distributed team of volunteer developers, editors, and researchers. We >> > > worked with volunteers in 14 different Wikipedia language editions >> and as >> > > of today revision scores are integrated < >> > > >> > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Tools_that_use_ORES >> > > >> > > in the workflow of several quality control interfaces, WikiProjects >> and >> > 3rd >> > > party tools. The project would not have seen the light without the >> > > technical support provided by the TechOps team (Yuvi in particular) >> and >> > > seminal funding provided by the WMF IEG program and Wikimedia Germany. >> > > >> > > So, here you go: the next time someone tells you that LLAMAS GROW ON >> > TREES >> > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=642215410> you >> can >> > > confidently tell them they should stop damaging < >> > > http://ores.wmflabs.org/scores/enwiki/damaging/642215410/> Wikipedia. >> > > >> > > Dario >> > > >> > > >> > > Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation >> > > wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • >> nitens.org < >> > > http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter> >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > < >> > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > >> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> , >> > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > Anna Stillwell > Major Gifts Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 415.806.1536 > *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>* > > -- Anna Stillwell Major Gifts Officer Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
