Hi, A good place to get feedback from the English Wikipedia community would be the Village Pump Idea Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab) .
It’s not clear to me whether the tool would be suggesting inline links for the text that’s already in the article, or “See also” links. A description of what problem the tool would solve would be really helpful. It would also be helpful to see “before and after” mockups showing a specific stub article as it exists today and what the article would look like after the tool’s suggestions have been applied. Cheers, Su-Laine Wikipedia contributor > On Sep 18, 2020, at 3:30 AM, Garcia Duran Alberto <alberto.du...@epfl.ch> > wrote: > > Hi all > > We are researchers from the dlab at EPFL working with Bob West. > > We have plans to build a graph-based ML algorithm, which will further > facilitate development of a tool to assist Wikipedia editors by providing > recommendations on two novel use-cases. One consists of suggesting hyperlinks > (Wikipedia articles) to be inserted within a section of an article. Note that > this is different from "classical link prediction". > > We feel the tool could be of great value, as it can work with newly created > sections that do not have any content yet. What's more, the editor can type > *any* section name (either non-existent in that article or even in the whole > Wiki project) and the tool would have the power to suggest hyperlinks that > are likely to be of interest for that section in the article. We think that > (specially) stub articles can benefit from this tool. > > However, we have one assumption. In addition to the section name, the editor > must provide the "entity type" (Place, People, Date, Organization...) of the > Wikipedia articles she would like to insert in the section. The reason is > that within a section you can find links to articles of diverse types. > > The reason we are reaching out to you is two fold: > (1) To check whether such a tool would be of interest and likely to be used > by the editors. > (2) How limiting is the assumption that the editor needs to specify the > entity type of the Wikipedia articles for which she needs recommendations > from the tool? > > One one hand, some of us think this is not a problem as the number of entity > types is relatively small (between 10 and 20) and they can be easily and > visually presented to the editor with a dropdown list. On the other side, > others think this requirement is limiting. > > We would like to know your opinion to decide whether we should move forward > with this project. > > Thanks! > dlab > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
