[Foundation-l] Ticket#: 114592-FW]

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at Student.tUL.EDU> ----

Datum:
Van: "Schepers Frank (Stud. SIT)" <Frank.Schepers at Student.tUL.EDU>
Aan: "Wikipedia information team" <info-nl at 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,
 >
 > I’m 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 I’m working on is: “Personalization of the
 > WikiWikiWeb”. On the Dutch Wikipedia I have an account with the nickname
 > frankschepers, but I don’t 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
 > Wiki’s.
 > 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
 > aren’t 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 Wiki’s.
 > 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
 >