Hi Aaron,
Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please remember that the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet achieved IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank you for your patience.
Best regards, James Salsman
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *James Salsman* jsalsman@gmail.com Date: Sunday, May 31, 2015 Subject: comments on Annual Plan To: Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org Cc: Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org
Dear Dario and Lila,
Are you both able to see the human fact checker and proofreader candidates in [censored] ?
Please keep the contents of that file confidential, as I promised I would not share it with commercial interests.
Please let me know your thoughts on the next best steps.
Best regards, James
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsalsman@gmail.com');> wrote:
Lila,
Thank you so much. I will help Dario as much as I can. You are both so great.
Best regards, Jim
On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Lila Tretikov <lila@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lila@wikimedia.org');> wrote:
Hi James,
Not sure we can "take this away" better than another volunteer, but we do plan to focus on quality measurements. I am CCing Dario who is in charge of Analytics Research to look into the specifics of what's involved here and how it may link to the general quality metrics.
Lila
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lila,
Please take this away from me. I do not want to be in a position where my influence over it can unduly enrich my new client by degrading the quality of the encyclopedia. Please let me know your decision.
Best regards, James
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM Subject: comments on Annual Plan To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Regarding https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2015-16#Eng...
Will key quality metrics for reading include accuracy of articles on the Simple English Wikipedia?
To that end, will the Wikimedia Foundation please take over this project in full as stated here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
I have a new contract through the end of the year and will be unable to devote the time I had planned. Thank you.
Best regards, James Salsman
P.S. I mean, the WMF can't hire them but the WEF can, and I hope they do soon to complement the accuracy metric without expenditure.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Aaron,
Could you please confirm that Lila and Dario are in receipt of the fact-checker candidate list and associated materials? Please remember that the WEF can't hire them but the WikiEd Foundation has not yet achieved IdeaLab technology, so your assistance may still be required. Thank you for your patience.
Best regards, James Salsman
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *James Salsman* <jsalsman@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsalsman@gmail.com');> Date: Sunday, May 31, 2015 Subject: comments on Annual Plan To: Lila Tretikov <lila@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lila@wikimedia.org');> Cc: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org');>
Dear Dario and Lila,
Are you both able to see the human fact checker and proofreader candidates in [censored] ?
Please keep the contents of that file confidential, as I promised I would not share it with commercial interests.
Please let me know your thoughts on the next best steps.
Best regards, James
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Lila,
Thank you so much. I will help Dario as much as I can. You are both so great.
Best regards, Jim
On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi James,
Not sure we can "take this away" better than another volunteer, but we do plan to focus on quality measurements. I am CCing Dario who is in charge of Analytics Research to look into the specifics of what's involved here and how it may link to the general quality metrics.
Lila
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lila,
Please take this away from me. I do not want to be in a position where my influence over it can unduly enrich my new client by degrading the quality of the encyclopedia. Please let me know your decision.
Best regards, James
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM Subject: comments on Annual Plan To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Regarding https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2015-16#Eng...
Will key quality metrics for reading include accuracy of articles on the Simple English Wikipedia?
To that end, will the Wikimedia Foundation please take over this project in full as stated here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html
I have a new contract through the end of the year and will be unable to devote the time I had planned. Thank you.
Best regards, James Salsman
Hi James,
I'm a little unsure what you are proposing and how it relates to education programs. This is the public mailing list for matters relating to Wikipedia in education. How does this proposed project relate to Wikipedia in education? I'm aware of some automated quality assessment efforts which may be relevant for assessing the quality of student work. Is that your intention for the project that you are proposing?
Pine