On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is really cool! Congrats to everyone who worked
on this.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:51 PM Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
(cross-posting from wikitech-l)
Today we published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the
official launch of revision scoring as a service <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service>
and I wanted to say a few words about this project:
Blog post:
<
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Rati…
?
On the surface, it’s a set of open APIs allowing you to automatically
“score” any edit and measure their probability of being damaging or
good-faith contributions. The real goal behind this project, though, is
to
fix the damage indirectly caused by
vandal-fighting bots and tools on
good-faith contributors and to bring back a collaborative dimension to
how
we do quality control on Wikipedia. I invite you
to read the whole blog
post <
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/
if you want to know more about the motivations and expected outcome of
this
project.
I am thrilled this project is coming to fruition and I’d like to
congratulate Aaron Halfaker <
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Ahalfaker> and all the project
contributors <
on hitting this big milestone: revision scoring started as Aaron’s side
project well over a year ago and it has been co-designed (as in –
literally
– conceived, implemented, tested, improved and
finally adopted) by a
distributed team of volunteer developers, editors, and researchers. We
worked with volunteers in 14 different Wikipedia language editions and as
of today revision scores are integrated <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Tool…
in the workflow of several quality control interfaces, WikiProjects and
3rd
party tools. The project would not have seen the
light without the
technical support provided by the TechOps team (Yuvi in particular) and
seminal funding provided by the WMF IEG program and Wikimedia Germany.
So, here you go: the next time someone tells you that LLAMAS GROW ON
TREES
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=642215410> you can
confidently tell them they should stop damaging <
http://ores.wmflabs.org/scores/enwiki/damaging/642215410/> Wikipedia.
Dario
Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> •
nitens.org <
http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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