(Volunteer hat on) I'm a little sad we didn't find a place for this in the Wikipedia apps or web products, but I plan to maintain a labs instance going forward: https://wikipedia-trending.wmflabs.org/ And a web presentation with a push notification feature (which notified be this morning of the death of Ed Lee <https://trending.wmflabs.org/en.wikipedia/Ed%20Lee%20(politician)>): https://trending.wmflabs.org/
This is a little inferior to the production version as it is unable to use production kafka and if it has any outages it will lose data. I'm hoping to get this onto IFTTT <https://ifttt.com/wikipedia> with help from Stephen Laporte in my volunteer time, as I think this feature is a pretty powerful one which has failed to find its use case in the wiki world. As Kaldari points out it's incredibly good at detecting edit wars and I personally have learned a lot about what our editors see as important and notable in the world (our editors really seem to like wrestling). I think there are ample and exciting things people could build on top of this api. The gadget script is crude (as there is no way to install a service worker via a user script) but will continue to work if you want to try it (but Firefox only) - I just updated it to use the new endpoint. I will continue to explore trending's place in the Wikimedia universe :) On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 10:43 Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > One interesting thing that I noticed about the trending edits API is that > it was fairly useful in identifying articles that were under attack by > vandals or experiencing an edit war. A lot of times a vandal will just sit > on an article and keep reverting back to the vandalized version until an > admin shows up, which can sometimes take a while. If you tweak the > parameters passed to the API, you can almost get it to show nothing but > edit wars (high number of edits, low number of editors). > > This makes me think that this API is actually useful, it's just targeted to > the wrong use case. If we built something similar, but that just looked for > high numbers of revert/undos (rather than edits), and combined it with > something like Jon Robson's trending edits user script ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Gadget-trending-edits.js), we > could create a really powerful tool for Wikipedia administrators to > identify problems without having to wait for them to be reported at AN/I or > AIV. > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Corey Floyd <cfl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Just a reminder that this is happening this Thursday. Please update any > > tools you have before then. Thanks! > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM Corey Floyd <cfl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The experimental Trending Service[1] will be sunset on December 14th, > > 2017. > > > > > > We initially deployed this service to evaluate some real time features > in > > > the mobile apps centered on delivering more timely information to > users. > > > After some research [2], we found that it did not perform well with > users > > > in that use case. > > > > > > At this point there are no further plans to integrate the service into > > our > > > products and so we are going to sunset the service to reduce the > > > maintenance burden for some of our teams. > > > > > > We are going to do this more quickly than we would for a full stable > > > production API as the usage of the end point is extremely low and > mostly > > > from our own internal projects. If you this adversely affects any of > your > > > work or you have any other concerns, please let the myself or the > Reading > > > Infrastructure team know. > > > > > > Thanks to all the teams involved with developing, deploying, > researching > > > and maintaining this service. > > > > > > P.S. This service was based off of prototypes Jon Robson had developed > > for > > > detecting trending articles. He will be continuing his work in this > > area. I > > > encourage you to reach out to him if you were interested in this > project. > > > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/trendingEdits > > > [2] > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Comparing_most_ > > read_and_trending_edits_for_Top_Articles_feature > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Corey Floyd > > > Engineering Manager > > > Readers > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > cfl...@wikimedia.org > > > > > -- > > Corey Floyd > > Engineering Manager > > Readers > > Wikimedia Foundation > > cfl...@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
