Re: [Wiki-research-l] New tool to help find topics for editing

2012-07-31 Thread Dave Musicant
? -Jodi On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Dave Musicant dmusi...@carleton.edu wrote: Hi folks - Our research team at Carleton College has just launched a new tool that recommends Wikipedia articles to edit based on news that you're interested in. Most news sites have Twitter or RSS feeds

[Wiki-research-l] New tool to help find topics for editing

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Musicant
Hi folks - Our research team at Carleton College has just launched a new tool that recommends Wikipedia articles to edit based on news that you're interested in. Most news sites have Twitter or RSS feeds that update as new articles are published. wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New tool to help find topics for editing

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Musicant
/PostgreSQL website, so it's hard to release a standalone version of the code that someone else could install. But describing the architecture and providing snippets of source code for those who are interested is certainly doable. -- Dave Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New tool to help find topics for editing

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Musicant
in sources they can read. But both approaches may have their users, and the experience of SuggestBot would be worth learning from. WSC On 30 July 2012 21:00, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org mailto:swall...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave Musicant