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 -- 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