We just published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the official launch of revision scoring as a service https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service and I wanted to say a few words about this project:

Blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ Docs on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES

First off: what’s revision scoring https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Rationale? On the surface, it’s a set of open APIs allowing you to automatically “score” any edit and measure their probability of being damaging or good-faith contributions. The real goal behind this project, though, is to fix the damage indirectly caused by vandal-fighting bots and tools on good-faith contributors and to bring back a collaborative dimension to how we do quality control on Wikipedia. I invite you to read the whole blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ if you want to know more about the motivations and expected outcome of this project.

I am thrilled this project is coming to fruition and I’d like to congratulate Aaron Halfaker https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Ahalfaker and all the project contributors https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team on hitting this big milestone: revision scoring started as Aaron’s side project well over a year ago and it has been co-designed (as in – literally – conceived, implemented, tested, improved and finally adopted) by a distributed team of volunteer developers, editors, and researchers. We worked with volunteers in 14 different Wikipedia language editions and as of today revision scores are integrated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Tools_that_use_ORES in the workflow of several quality control interfaces, WikiProjects and 3rd party tools. The project would not have seen the light without the technical support provided by the TechOps team (Yuvi in particular) and seminal funding provided by the WMF IEG program and Wikimedia Germany.

So, here you go: the next time someone tells you that LLAMAS GROW ON TREES https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=642215410 you can confidently tell them they should stop damaging http://ores.wmflabs.org/scores/enwiki/damaging/642215410/ Wikipedia.

Dario

Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org http://wikimediafoundation.org/ • nitens.org http://nitens.org/ • @readermeter http://twitter.com/readermeter