Wooooo hoooo.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's mentioned in the MIT Review here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544036/artificial-intelligence-aims-to…
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://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
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
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team
>
> 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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