Hello researchers,
tl;dr: Seeking feedback on a web API targeted at Wikipedia researchers and
tools developers that provides access to state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based
algorithms [1,2,3].
I've been working with Brent Hecht for about a year on a project called
WikiBrain [1] that seeks to democratize access to a wide variety of
Wikipedia-based algorithms. WikiBrain downloads, parses, stores, and
analyzes Wikipedia data in any language, providing access to
state-of-the-art NLP, AI, and GIScience algorithms with the click of a
button on commodity hardware.
While we strive to make WikiBrain installation as easy as possible, we
want researchers to be able to access WikiBrain's algorithms immediately,
with no installation required, from any programming language. We are
planning to develop a WikiBrain web API to do this, targeted at Wikipedia
researchers and Wikipedia tool developers.
We have written a Wikipedia individual engagement grant [2] to support the
development of this new API, and we'd love to hear about
Wikipedia-algorithm needs. If there's an algorithm you use or need in your
Wikipedia research, please head over to our use cases page [3] and let us
know about it!
-Shilad
[1]
http://wikibrainapi.org
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools/UseCases
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Shilad W. Sen
Associate Professor
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Dept.
Macalester College
ssen(a)macalester.edu
http://www.shilad.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shilad
651-696-6273