Hi Gerard, We're diverging from the initial thread. I'll respond to one point, we should take the rest of the discussion somewhere else. :)
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote: > > So yes, your approach is good but like the translation tool it relies on > English content. No. The approach and implementation is from any language to any language. You can play with a very simplified version of the recommendations at https://recommend.wmflabs.org/. You can choose any language as source or destination. Best, Leila > Thanks, > GerardM > > > > On 17 April 2017 at 18:40, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hoi Gerard, > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > When you analyse articles and find that some things are missing, it > will > > > help a lot when you can target these articles to the people who are > > likely > > > interested. When people interested in soccer learn that a soccer player > > > died, they are more likely to edit even write an article. > > > > > > > You are absolutely right. This is what we even tested in the article > > creation recommendation experiment and you could see that providing > > personalized recommendations (where personalization was on the basis of > > matching editors interests based on their history of contributions) does > > better than random important recommendations. A few pointers for you: > > > > * Check out section 2.3 of the paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604. > > 03235.pdf to > > see how this was done. > > * I talk briefly about how we do the editor interest modeling at > > https://youtu.be/lHbnvRwFC_A?t=20m44s > > > > In general, we have at least two ways for recommending to people what > they > > like to edit: one would be using the information in their past edit > history > > and building topical models that can help us learn what topics an editor > is > > interested in. The other is by asking the editor to provide some seeds of > > interest to us. For example, we ask you to tell us what kind of article > you > > would edit, and we give you recommendations similar to the seed you > > provide. Each have its own advantages and you sometimes have to mix the > two > > approaches (and more) to give the editor enough breadth and depth of > topics > > to choose from. > > > > > > > The approach for finding a subject that could do with more attention is > > one > > > I applaud. When you want to do this across languages think Wikidata to > > > define the area of interest for users. It will always include all the > > > articles in all the languages. As you have seen with the Listeria > lists, > > > showing red links and Wikidata items is trivial. > > > > > > > Yes, finding what is missing in a Wikipedia language by comparing > language > > editions is relatively easy, thanks to Wikidata. :) What is hard is > ranking > > these millions of missing articles in any language based on some notion > of > > importance. We developed a ranking system for the research I mentioned > > above. You can read about it in Section 2.2 of the paper at > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03235.pdf. I talk about in less details at > > https://youtu.be/lHbnvRwFC_A?t=16m58s. In a nutshell: we built a > > prediction > > model that aims to predict the number of pageviews the article would > > receive had it existed in the destination language where it's missing > > today. The higher this predicted number for a missing article in a > > language, the more important it is to create it. > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Gerard > > > > > > On 17 April 2017 at 02:04, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > > > This may be of interest to you: > > > > > > > > We are working on building recommendation systems than can help > editors > > > > identify how to expand already existing articles in Wikipedia. This > > > > includes but is not limited to identifying what sections are missing > > from > > > > an article, what citations, what images, infobox information, etc. > This > > > is > > > > research in its early days, if you'd like to follow up with it please > > > visit > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_ > > > Wikipedia_stubs_across_ > > > > languages > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Leila > > > > > > > > > > > > Leila Zia > > > > Senior Research Scientist > > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:50 PM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Are anyone doing any work on automated quality assurance of > articles? > > > Not > > > > > the ORES-stuff, that is about creating hints from measured > features. > > > I'm > > > > > thinking about verifying existence and completeness of citations, > and > > > > > structure of logical arguments. > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
