Hello, Daniel.
I'm discussing with my boss about this topic. As you already know, my Ph.D. thesis has been performed based on the analysis of the full log archives for the top-10 Wikipedias, in which I have now more than 3 years of experience, and automated scripts/models to save time and effort. The problem of detecting reverts is something I want to work on, since a couple of colleagues and I believe it could bring a lot of valious knowledge to this field.
The main problem is that I already work for my research group full time (Libresoft). If you may consider contracting me through our group (I will then have the chance to allocate the necessary time for this) I could undertake this issue. I mean, the group would present a working proposal, and I would be the main researcher in charge of the project.
It falls in the precise middle of one of my future lines of research (vandalism in Wikipedia), so in any case, I have a lot of interest in it.
Please, let me know ASAP whether this is acceptable/feasable for you, the ammount of money you could allocate (which conditions the time I could spend on this) and the expected time frame for the execution.
Best,
Felipe.
--- El jue, 16/4/09, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de escribió:
De: Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de Asunto: [Wiki-research-l] DEADLINE for WMDE contract applications Para: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org, toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: jueves, 16 abril, 2009 5:37 Hello all
At the developer meetup, I announced that Wikimedia Deutschland is offering contracts for a couple of projects we feel are important. We again invite anyone to apply NOW for any project that interests you.
The DEADLINE for applying is SUNDAY, APRIL 19!
We did not receive any offer for the most urgent project: Evaluate the impact of using flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Evaluate_the_impact_of_using_flagged_revisions.
We feel that it would be very helpful to run a full analysis on this before the English language Wikipedia decides on how to implement flagged revisions. It's a powerful tool, and we should make sure we use it to it's full potential.
Below, the other projects are listed again:
- Rewrite CatScan, a tool for finding pages in a set of
categories recursively, based on various criteria - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan
- Store interwiki-links in the database, just like we
already store interlanguage-links - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Store_interwiki-links_in_...
- Improve the Gadgets extension to allow for gadgets to be
enabled per default, be restricted to specific user groups, etc - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Improve_the_Gadets_extens...
- Implement full support for TIFF files, including
multi-page TIFFs, similar to how DjVu is handled - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Implement_full_support_fo...
If you would like to help with any of the above, please contact me at <daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de> and provide the following information:
- Your real name and country of residence
- How you plan to go about implementing the desired
function
- Any experience working with MediaWiki
- How many working hours you would spend on it, and how
much you ask for it
- In what time frame you would be able to do the job
This information is also available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers
Thanks you all for your interest!
-- daniel
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