Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.
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From: "Aaron Halfaker" <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation &
review launches today!
To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Staff All" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcome…
Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are
editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the
secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes
through curation/review processes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_re…
Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians
towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The
speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is
great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith
new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine
learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This
would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy
article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to
make a better first draft.
I'll submit some more when I can. :)
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for
> IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks
> related to content curation & review in our projects:
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
>
> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects,
> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our
projects
> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite
> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to
> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is
> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The
> campaign runs until 29 March.
>
> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions,
> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are
> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this
> campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are
> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your
ideas.[3]
>
> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and
> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and
> accessible.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign
> here: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign>
> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If
> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me
> on-wiki).
>
> ---
> Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2016-02): 309
Active users (any activity) in (2016-02): 946
Task authors in (2016-02): 521
Users who have closed tasks in (2016-02): 275
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2016-02): 213
Tasks created in (2016-02): 3058
Tasks closed in (2016-02): 2820
Open and stalled tasks in total: 28667
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 17
Needs Triage: 151
High: 215
Normal: 375
Low: 719
Lowest: 525
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Tue Mar 1 00:00:09 UTC 2016)