Awesome; thanks!

On 21 December 2015 at 12:12, Leila Zia <leila@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> So what's happening with the link recommendation system? Is that
>> rolled into article-creation recommendations, or was the paper the
>> final product?
>
>
> The short answer is: the paper is ideally not the final product (although
> I'm thrilled with the reviews we received for it) as we like to see this
> system used.
>
> From the research perspective, we want to have a tool where we can collect
> data to learn more about and improve the link recommendation system. We've
> had extensive conversations with Pau about this. The model we're working
> towards is a landing page where the user can get different types of
> recommendations: link recommendations* and article-creation recommendations,
> and maybe more forms of recommendations in the future. In the past three
> months, Ashwin has worked closely with Pau, Nirzar, and Ed to bring us
> closer to having such a tool. The tool is not ready to be used yet (really!
> you'll see it as soon as you click Add Links), but if you're curious to see
> where we are with it, please check
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/navlink-recommendation/
>
> From the product perspective, the Editing team has set their goal to test
> the tool (via the same tool on wmflabs) and if successful, figuring out the
> next steps for it. Please reach out to the team directly if you like to know
> more.
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> * Initially, the tool was going to have link recommendations for two cases:
> where the anchor text existed in the article text, and where it didn't. We
> learned that when the anchor text does not exist, the task becomes a much
> harder one from the user's perspective, since the decision is no longer
> whether the link should be added or not but where it should be added and in
> what context. The tool that you see now will only have link recommendations
> where the anchor text exists.
>
>>
>>
>> On 19 December 2015 at 01:53, Dario Taraborelli
>> <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Dec 18, 2015, at 10:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen
>> > <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Hoi,
>> > Where does it say what languages are covered
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service#Support_table
>> >
>> > and, what languages are planned for support?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Progress_report:_2015-11-28
>> >
>> > although what gets in production will depend on many factors, such as
>> > community support to generate labeled data, performance of the model
>> > etc.
>> >
>> > Dario
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >      GerardM
>> >
>> > On 19 December 2015 at 05:16, Dario Taraborelli
>> > <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> I’m glad to announce that the Wikimedia Research team’s goals for the
>> >> next
>> >> quarter (January - March 2016) are up on wiki.
>> >>
>> >> The Research and Data team will continue to work with our volunteers
>> >> and
>> >> collaborators on revision scoring as a service adding support for 5 new
>> >> languages and prototyping new models (including an edit type
>> >> classifier). We
>> >> will also continue to iterate on the design of article creation
>> >> recommendations, running a dedicated campaign in coordination with
>> >> existing
>> >> editathons to improve the quality of these recommendations. Finally, we
>> >> will
>> >> extend a research project we started in November aimed at understanding
>> >> the
>> >> behavior of Wikipedia readers, by combining qualitative survey data
>> >> with
>> >> behavioral analysis from our HTTP request logs.
>> >>
>> >> The Design Research team will conduct an in-depth study of user needs
>> >> (particularly readers) on the ground in February. We will continue to
>> >> work
>> >> with other Wikimedia Engineering teams throughout the quarter to ensure
>> >> the
>> >> adoption of human-centered design principles and pragmatic personas in
>> >> our
>> >> product development cycle. We’re also excited to start a collaboration
>> >> with
>> >> students at the University of Washington to understand what free online
>> >> information resources (including, but not limited to, Wikimedia
>> >> projects)
>> >> students use.
>> >>
>> >> I am also glad to report that two papers on link and article
>> >> recommendations (the result of a formal collaboration with a team at
>> >> Stanford) were accepted for presentation at WSDM '16 and WWW ’16
>> >> (preprints
>> >> will be made available shortly). An overview on revision scoring as a
>> >> service was published a few weeks ago on the Wikimedia blog, and got
>> >> some
>> >> good media coverage.
>> >>
>> >> We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome
>> >> feedback
>> >> on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can
>> >> contact
>> >> us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia-research channel and
>> >> follow
>> >> @WikiResearch on Twitter for the latest Wikipedia and Wikimedia
>> >> research
>> >> updates hot off the press.
>> >>
>> >> Wishing you all happy holidays,
>> >>
>> >> Dario and Abbey on behalf of the team
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dario Taraborelli  Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
>> >> wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
>> >>
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