Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Kerry Raymond
Yes, under-categorised and/or under-tagged articles could probably be detected by inbound/outbound link analysis and presented as candidates to the relevant WikiProjects for categorising and tagging. So long as you didn’t deliver up too many false positives, people would probably still deal with

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Kerry Raymond
Re: initial setting of Importance in project tags. I don't offer any evidence for my claim that initial project tagging often gets importance correct, it's just my observation that this is so. Since importance is about the topic importance rather than article, I suspect it can be reliably assig

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
Following up Kerry's comments: far more useful to our encyclopedia building project would not be a global importance assessor, but a assessor of which wikiprojects a page is likely to be of interest to. There are hundreds of thousands of en.wiki pages which are not tagged properly to their wikiproj

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Morten Wang
Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Kerry! There were many great points in your email, I'd like to focus on some of them. Your likening of viewership to readers and inlinks to writers echoes how we think about this as well. I agree that these two groups differ on many characteristics, something bo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Kerry Raymond
I observe (and am unsurprised) that WikiProject Australia also rates the Pavlova article as High importance, which demonstrates into the Stuart's comments about graphs and subgraphs. If there are relationships between WikiProjects, there is probably some correlation about importance of articles

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On em.wiki article importance is relative to some wikiproject. This is encoded in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WPBannerMeta which appears on 16% of all wikipedia pages via specialisations such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_New_Zealand Within Wikiproject New Zealan

[Wiki-research-l] Open Data Movements in the Age of Big Data Capitalism: WIAS seminar with Arwid Lund and Jonathan Gray

2017-04-27 Thread Christian Fuchs
Open Data Movements in the Age of Big Data Capitalism Tue 16 May 2017 17:00 – 19:00 Organised by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies 309 Regent Street University of Westminster London W1B 2HW Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-movements-in-the-age-of-big-data-capit

[Wiki-research-l] 1st International Wikipedia Scientific Conference (2nd Brazilian edition)

2017-04-27 Thread Rodrigo Padula
Hello my friends, After a very productive week in Berlin and 3 days visiting our fellows from Portugal and many Portuguese universities in Lisboa, Porto and Coimbra we finally confirmed the 1st International Wikipedia Scientific Conference (2nd Brazilian edition). That project was created by

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

2017-04-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have read the proposal and it leaves me wondering. Also the notion of importance is indeed neither easy nor obvious. I think the question what is most important is irrelevant depending on how you look at it. Subject can be irrelevant when you look at it from a personal perspective, looking a