Sure; agreed! For the Discovery team to test things we're working on. I read the first message as "we should discuss including Ed's project in this". It may be very cool but the two are contraindicated.
On 5 February 2016 at 22:06, Deborah Tankersley <[email protected]> wrote: > Naw, I see it as - it's a nice test. Does his ideas carry weight with the > community? Is it cool? Is it not? > > We'll see, since nothing has been set in stone and nothing will be until when > we get the portal labs up and running and with tests available. We've got a > long way to go. > > The portal labs is meant for the Discovery team to have a place to test > things we're working on. > > Hope that helps! > >> On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Unless we are comfortable with saying in advance "yes we are willing >> to carry the can and productionise this if it's popular" - and we do >> not have the employee skillset for that - I would thoroughly recommend >> against incorporating it into the beta, which is for "stuff the >> discovery team is working on and considering deploying". >> >> On 4 February 2016 at 18:20, Deborah Tankersley >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I had a recently had a lovely chat with Ed Saperia, a community member >>> working on projects related to discovering news in Wikipedia, to let him >>> know what the Discovery Team is about and what we are doing with the >>> Wikipedia Portal page. >>> >>> Ed is working on a recommender algorithm that will provide a sortable >>> listing of news, so that users of his algorithm can help make Wikipedia a >>> source of news for users and readers. It's meant to be open and >>> collaborative, ideally with the codebase existing on wiki like Lua modules. >>> This algorithm, in theory, would be able to reference all metadata (article >>> views, edits, timestamps, etc) and semantic data (categories, Wikidata >>> properties) that are related to each edit. >>> >>> We chatted about how to make his project more informative by using Wikidata >>> and that it'd be a good idea to have sections (or filters) for sports, >>> deaths, celebrities, politics, etc. He'd also like to have info on why the >>> recommended article is there, something like: "This [person/topic] is >>> trending because X number of edits were made in the last 24 hours" or "This >>> [person] is trending because X's [date of death] was added." >>> >>> I showed him a few trending sites that some of our community folks are >>> working on that are somewhat similar: http://top.hatnote.com/ >>> andhttp://www.trending.eu/en/1/. Those sites don't necessarily show as much >>> rich metadata as Ed's site project hopes to have, but they're still pretty >>> neat to see as trending article sites. >>> >>> Ed and his team of developers will be meeting in a few weeks to work on >>> their project and might offer us a chance to chat with them about this >>> project. I let him know that our team is hoping to launch a Portal Labs >>> project for the community to view at any time and provide feedback on >>> proposed Portal re-designs and enhancements. I think Ed's recommender >>> algorithm project for trending articles would be fun to add in as a sample >>> alternative page! >>> >>> Overall, he's got some very good ideas and I'm excited to see where his >>> project ends up! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Deb >>> >>> -- >>> Deb Tankersley >>> Product Manager, Discovery >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> discovery mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Count Logula >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
