Yes, Andrew's talk was quite good. He and I recorded video at some of the other sessions, including a SWOT analysis and visioning exercise regarding Wikipedia culture, and a session about video on Wikipedia. Some of the videos (Andrew's) came out better than others (mine) due to hardware issues (my camera's video quality is mediocre although some of its stills are pretty good). Andrew will hopefully post links to the videos after they're uploaded.
Pine
For those who didn't make it to WikiConference USA, you can watch everything that happened in the biggest auditorium on YouTube. (Don't forget the settings to play at higher speed—most people don't talk as fast as you can listen.)While it isn't focused on Discovery, I found Andrew Lih's talk to be very interesting:Links to the other National Archives recordings are on the schedule:Other talks were also recorded, but not by the National Archives. I'm sure they'll pop up somewhere online eventually.Aaron Halfaker gave a very cool talk on AI bots that support Wikipedia, and discusses a machine learning platform that could support other tasks—and though he didn't mention it, I thought of detecting languages, detecting gibberish queries (very similar to what they do to find gibberish edits), and other things that may be useful to Discovery: http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Revscoring:_AI_support_for_WikipediansSee more on machine learning as a service here:—TreyTrey JonesSoftware Engineer, Discovery
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