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

2012-07-31 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Dave, Thanks for this -- I was about to tweet about it (wikiFeed finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on an editor's preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds might be a good summary). But your website doesn't give any information that would be understandable to

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

2012-07-31 Thread Dave Musicant
Hi Jodi - Thanks for the offer to tweet, and for the suggestion! We've added such text on our landing page. -- Dave On 7/31/2012 4:24 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for this -- I was about to tweet about it (wikiFeed finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on

[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 WereSpielChequers
You might want to ask Suggest Bot users to try it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SUGGESTBOT My suspicion would be that more people will be interested on articles related to topics they cover than ones in sources they can read. But both approaches may have their users, and the

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

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Musicant
Thanks for the support, Steven! We'll be documenting the architecture in a paper we're putting together. The source isn't currently available, as we're still trying to put together user tests on the system; but I'd be happy to share later. As it stands, it's part of an

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

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Musicant
Thanks for idea, WSC -- it's a good one. -- Dave WereSpielChequers wrote: You might want to ask Suggest Bot users to try it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SUGGESTBOT My suspicion would be that more people will be interested on articles related to topics they cover than ones in