Thank you. Great work. /a On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise. > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcomer_detection > Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are > editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the > secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes > through curation/review processes. > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_review > Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead > Wikipedians towards implementing high speed new article review/curation > processes. The speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these > processes is great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that > good-faith new article creators can build their articles. We could build a > machine learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. > This would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy > article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to > make a better first draft. > > I'll submit some more when I can. :) > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for >> IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks >> related to content curation & review in our projects: >> >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> >> >> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects, >> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our projects >> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite >> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to >> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is >> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The >> campaign runs until 29 March. >> >> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, >> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are >> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this >> campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are >> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your ideas.[3] >> >> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and >> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and >> accessible. >> >> With thanks, >> >> Jethro >> >> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign >> here: < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign> >> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start> >> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If >> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me >> on-wiki). >> >> --- >> Chris "Jethro" Schilling >> I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> >> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation >> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- 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 New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
