All fine points.  As you can see, I've filed some phab tasks where I saw a
clear opportunity to do so.

>  as mentioned before all the models that currently run on ORES are
available in both ores-legacy and Lift Wing.

I thought I read that damaging and goodfaith models are going to be
replaced.  Should I instead read that they are likely to remain available
for the foreseeable future?   When I asked about a community discussion
about the transition from damaging/goodfaith to revertrisk, I was imagining
that many people who use those predictions might have an opinion about them
going away.  E.g. people who use the relevant filters in RecentChanges.
Maybe I missed the discussions about that.

I haven't seen a mention of the article quality or article topic models in
the docs.  Are those also going to remain available?  I have some user
scripts that use these models and are relatively widely used.  I didn't
notice anyone reaching out. ... So I checked and setting a User-Agent on my
user scripts doesn't actually change the User-Agent.  I've read that you
need to set "Api-User-Agent" instead, but that causes a CORS error when
querying ORES.  I'll file a bug.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 1:22 PM Luca Toscano <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 8:59 PM Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> We could definitely file a task.  However, it does seem like highlighting
>> the features that will no longer be available is an appropriate topic for a
>> discussion about migration in a technical mailing list.
>>
>
> A specific question related to a functionality is the topic for a task, I
> don't think that we should discuss every detail that differs from the ORES
> API (Wikitech-l doesn't seem a good medium for it). We are already
> following up on Phabricator, let's use tasks if possible to keep the
> conversation as light and targeted as possible.
>
> Is there a good reference for which features have been excluded from
>> ores-legacy?  It looks like  https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES covers
>> some of the excluded features/models, but not all of them.
>>
>
> We spent the last months helping the community to migrate away from the
> ORES API (to use Lift Wing instead), the remaining traffic is only related
> to few low traffic IPs that we are not able to contact. We didn't add
> feature injection or threshold optimization to ores-legacy, for example,
> since there was no indication on our logs that users were relying on it. We
> have always stated everywhere (including all emails sent in this mailing
> list) that we are 100% open to add a functionality if it is backed up by a
> valid use case.
>
>
>> I see now that it looks like the RevertRisk model will be replacing the 
>> *damaging
>> *and *goodfaith *models that differentiate intentional damage from
>> unintentional damage.  There's a large body of research on why this is
>> valuable and important to the social functioning of the wikis.  This
>> literature also discusses why being reverted is not a very good signal for
>> damage/vandalism and can lead to problems when used as a signal for
>> patrolling.  Was there a community discussion about this deprecation that I
>> missed?  I have some preliminary results (in press) that demonstrate that
>> the RevertRisk model performs significantly worse than the damaging and
>> goodfaith models in English Wikipedia for patrolling work.  Do you have
>> documentation for how you evaluated this model and compared it to
>> damaging/goodfaith?
>>
>
> We have model cards related to both Revert Risk models, all of them linked
> in the API portal docs (more info:
> https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lift_Wing_API). All the community folks
> that migrated their bots/tools/etc.. to Revert Risk were very happy about
> the change, and we haven't had any request to switch back since then.
>
> The ML team provides all the models deployed on ORES on Lift Wing, so any
> damaging and goodfaith variant is available in the new API. We chose to not
> pursue the development of those models for several reasons:
> - We haven't had any indication/request from the community about those
> models in almost two years, except few Phabricator updates that we followed
> up on.
> - Managing several hundreds models for goodfaith and damaging is not very
> scalable in a modern micro-service architecture like Lift Wing (since we
> have a model for each supported wiki). We (both Research and ML) are
> oriented on having fewer models that manage more languages at the same
> time, and this is the direction that we are following at the moment. It may
> not be the perfect one but so far it seems a good choice. If you want to
> chime in and provide your inputs we are 100% available in hearing
> suggestions/concerns/doubts/recommendations/etc.., please follow up in any
> of our channels (IRC, mailing lists, Phabricator for example).
> - Last but not the least, most of the damaging/goodfaith models have been
> trained with data coming from years ago, and never re-trained. The efforts
> to keep several hundreds models up-to-date with recent data versus doing
> the same of few models (like revert risk) weights in favor of the latter
> for a relatively small team of engineers like us.
>
>
>> FWIW, from my reading of these announcement threads, I believed that
>> generally functionality and models would be preserved in
>> ores-legacy/LiftWing.  This is the first time I've realized the scale of
>> what will become unavailable.
>>
>
> This is the part that I don't get, since as mentioned before all the
> models that currently run on ORES are available in both ores-legacy and
> Lift Wing. What changes is that we don't expose anymore functionality that
> logs clearly show are not used, and that would need to be maintained and
> improved over time. We are open to improve and add any requirement that the
> community needs, the only thing that we ask is to provide a valid use case
> to support it.
>
> I do think that Lift Wing is a great improvement for the community, we
> have been working with all the folks that reached out to us, without hiding
> anything (including deprecation plans and path forwards).
>
> Thanks for following up!
>
> Luca
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