Hello,
ORES has been out and served for the Wikipedia community for a while, for the purpose such as counter-vandalism. Having seen the wide usage and effectiveness of ORES in the community, we'd like to continue working on ORES development. We plan to improve and redesign ORES algorithms by incorporating feedbacks of all the stakeholders involved in the entire ORES ecosystem, such as ORES application developers, ORES application operators, etc. We want to understand their concerns and values, and come up with effective algorithmic designs that can balance trade-offs and mitigate potential conflicts of interests (such as edit quality control v.s. newcomer protection) to further improve ORES performance.
We will work with Aaron Halfaker and his team to make improvements on ORES quality control models, and identify its limitations. Here is the project proposal on Meta-Wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Applying_Value-Sensitive_Algorithm_Design_to_ORES. If you are interested or have any thoughts, please feel free to reach out to me. Thanks!