Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share a project currently under consideration for IdeaLab funding and which may be of direct interest to the Wiki analytics community. If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, let me know. If you have feedback for the project, please submit it to the discussion pages or email me.

Thanks!

Jason

Wiki Controversy Monitoring Engine
Call for Developers

Purpose: The controversy monitoring engine maintains a real-time rating of the controversiality of Wikipedia articles by listening to the live stream of edits from Wikipedia. We need someone who is interested in building the web interface and interactive visualizations around these controversies to enable administrators to monitor, investigate, and, if need be, intervene to deescalate controversies. The goal is to create a site like stats.wikimedia.org.

Requirements: Knowledge of web development, web-based visualization, and\or data analysis using Wikipedia's API or WikiData.

For More Information: see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Controversy_Monitoring_Engine

Jason Radford
Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago
Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University
Connect: LinkedIn, Twitter, University of Chicago

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