Re: [Wikidata] Student topics of relevance for Wikidata
This looks great Lydia, thanks!! The descriptions look like enough for me to catch the idea and explain it to a student. If such a student is interested, we will let you know. :) Best! Aidan On 13-04-2017 12:44, Lydia Pintscher wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Aidan Hogan wrote: Hi all, So at my university the undergraduate students must do a three-month work towards writing a final short thesis. Generally this work doesn't need to involve research but should result in a final demonstrable outcome, meaning a tool, application, something like that. The students are in Computer Science and have taken various relevant courses including Semantic Web, Big Data, Data Mining, and so forth. I was wondering if there was, for example, a list of possible topics internally within Wikidata ... topics that students could work on with some guidance here and there from a professor. (Not necessarily research-level topics, but also implementation or prototyping tasks, perhaps even regarding something more speculative, or "wouldn't it be nice if we could ..." style topics?) If there is no such list, perhaps it might be a good idea to start thinking about one? The students I talk with are very interested in doing tasks that could have real-world impact and I think in this setting, working on something relevant to the deployment of Wikidata would be a really great experience for them and hopefully also of benefit to Wikidata. (And probably there are other professors in a similar context looking for interesting topics to assign students.) Hi Aidan, Thanks for reaching out. Such a list exists: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90870 However it doesn't make a lot of sense without some guidance. Some of these topics also already have someone interested in working on them. It is best to have a quick call with me to discuss it. Cheers Lydia ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Re: [Wikidata] Student topics of relevance for Wikidata
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Aidan Hogan wrote: > Hi all, > > So at my university the undergraduate students must do a three-month work > towards writing a final short thesis. Generally this work doesn't need to > involve research but should result in a final demonstrable outcome, meaning > a tool, application, something like that. > > The students are in Computer Science and have taken various relevant courses > including Semantic Web, Big Data, Data Mining, and so forth. > > I was wondering if there was, for example, a list of possible topics > internally within Wikidata ... topics that students could work on with some > guidance here and there from a professor. (Not necessarily research-level > topics, but also implementation or prototyping tasks, perhaps even regarding > something more speculative, or "wouldn't it be nice if we could ..." style > topics?) > > If there is no such list, perhaps it might be a good idea to start thinking > about one? > > The students I talk with are very interested in doing tasks that could have > real-world impact and I think in this setting, working on something relevant > to the deployment of Wikidata would be a really great experience for them > and hopefully also of benefit to Wikidata. > > (And probably there are other professors in a similar context looking for > interesting topics to assign students.) Hi Aidan, Thanks for reaching out. Such a list exists: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90870 However it doesn't make a lot of sense without some guidance. Some of these topics also already have someone interested in working on them. It is best to have a quick call with me to discuss it. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
[Wikidata] Student topics of relevance for Wikidata
Hi all, So at my university the undergraduate students must do a three-month work towards writing a final short thesis. Generally this work doesn't need to involve research but should result in a final demonstrable outcome, meaning a tool, application, something like that. The students are in Computer Science and have taken various relevant courses including Semantic Web, Big Data, Data Mining, and so forth. I was wondering if there was, for example, a list of possible topics internally within Wikidata ... topics that students could work on with some guidance here and there from a professor. (Not necessarily research-level topics, but also implementation or prototyping tasks, perhaps even regarding something more speculative, or "wouldn't it be nice if we could ..." style topics?) If there is no such list, perhaps it might be a good idea to start thinking about one? The students I talk with are very interested in doing tasks that could have real-world impact and I think in this setting, working on something relevant to the deployment of Wikidata would be a really great experience for them and hopefully also of benefit to Wikidata. (And probably there are other professors in a similar context looking for interesting topics to assign students.) Best, Aidan ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
