Hoi,
I received this e-mail in the Dutch OTRS and forward it for
consideration. The "daily advisor" mentioned, SanderSpek, is one of the
moderators on the Dutch Wikipedia and is well respected for his work and
his contributions. He is also a nice guy :)
I hope there is a way to make this interesting project possible, I think
that there will be a need to have the requested table with the database
that it belongs to.
I send it to the moderators of the Dutch wikipedia as well, as I am
really interested what their opinion on this one is..
Thanks,
GerardM
NB I tried to forward it from OTRS, It failed so now I am sending it
this way.
---- Doorgestuurd bericht van "Schepers Frank (Stud. SIT)"
<Frank.Schepers(a)Student.tUL.EDU> ----
Datum:
Van: "Schepers Frank (Stud. SIT)" <Frank.Schepers(a)Student.tUL.EDU>
Aan: "Wikipedia information team" <info-nl(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Antwoord aan:
Betreft: [Ticket#: 114592-FW] RE: Bericht van bezoeker Wikip [...]
Frank Schepers
Keelstraat 5a
3770 Vroenhoven Riemst (Belgium)
0032 498 365280
Hello,
Im a last year student Knowledge Engineering/Computer Science of the
faculty of General Sciences at the University of Maastricht. The subject
of the Master Thesis Im working on is: Personalization of the
WikiWikiWeb. On the Dutch Wikipedia I have an account with the nickname
frankschepers, but I dont have edited articles yet. My supervisor is
prof. dr. Jaap van den Herik. My daily advisor will be drs. Sander Spek,
who is a frequent editor on the Dutch Wikipedia site and who came up
with the subject of this Master thesis. The thesis will contain a
theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part various
methods of personalization will be examined and their applicability on
Wikis.
In the practical part, I will make an extension for the wikimedia
software. This will be an article recommender system. This system will
display for a Wikipedian, who has a watch list, some articles that
arent on his watch list, but though are interesting for him. If it is
possible to create a good working recommender system, this will improve
the quality of the articles on Wikipedia because more interested users
will read/edit the article.
So I will evaluate if personalization can be applied in an effective way
on Wikis.
For this research I need a database dump of the watchlist table. This
table cannot be downloaded from
http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/nl/ because of some privacy
issues I suppose.
So my question is, if it is possible to get a database dump of the watch
list table.
If you require any further information, feel free to contact me.
Kind regards,
Frank