Roughly, yes. March 2007: 50,996 "active" editors. October 2015: 30,482
"active" editors.
Pine
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hold on, is this fact correct?
"One motivation for the project is a significant decline in the number of
people considered active contributors to the flagship English-language
Wikipedia: it has fallen by 40 percent over the past eight years, to about
30,000."
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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/
> > > >
> > > Docs on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES <
> > >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES>
> > >
> > > First off: what’s revision scoring <
> > >
> >
>
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 <
> > >
> >
>
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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