Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.

Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Aaron Halfaker" ahalfaker@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@wikimedia.org Cc: "Staff All" wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org, glam@lists.wikimedia.org, "Wikimedia Mailing List" wikimedia-l@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_newcomer... 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_rev... 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@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%3E [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).

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