Dan,
I understand you are currently only working on internal search,
representing stage 1 of this project. But does the long-term vision of the
subsequent stages still include things like –
1. incorporation of non-Wikimedia sources in search results,
2. an open source knowledge engine like IBM's
A few of us from Discovery (myself, Tomasz Finc, Erik Bernhardson, and some
others too) had the opportunity to meet Sylvain recently when he was in San
Francisco. We chatted about touch points between Discovery and Common
Search.
One important thing I personally learnt from chatting to Sylvain is
Wonderful!
I still think Erik's suggestion long ago that there should just be an
Amazon bot that automatically approves & logs book orders from long-time
editors, was a great one. There might still be a need for these
higher-overhead programs (possibly e.g. for people who want more privacy
about
Systemic bias issues on Wikipedia are often exacerbated by the lack of
digital resources in certain subject areas. (Another reason for this
librarian to get annoyed when people say everything is online.) The
book grant program is a great way to help address this.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:0
Great, I'm glad to hear!
(not sure why we're cross-posting to the gender gap list.)
A.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Kirill Lokshin <
kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org> wrote:
> We did a preliminary assessment of the first pilot's outcomes in December,
> with very promising results (50+ new
We did a preliminary assessment of the first pilot's outcomes in December,
with very promising results (50+ new articles created, 10+ articles
promoted to GA, and solid plans for continuing work). Our plan is to
conduct a more detailed evaluation in August/September and include those
results in ou
Excellent. :)
Does that mean there have been (positive?) conclusions from the first
pilot? Is that assessment documented somewhere?
A.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Keilana wrote:
> Hello all! (Apologies for cross-posting!)
>
>
> I’m pleased to announce the second round of Wikimedia DC
Hello all! (Apologies for cross-posting!)
I’m pleased to announce the second round of Wikimedia DC Book Grants, a
pilot program in which we help provide editors with resources they need to
improve Wikimedia projects. If you live in the United States and actively
edit Wikimedia projects, you are e
Spinning off comes with issues, as we will encounter issues like we
currently have with the QRpedia coding as thats now under the control of
WMUK all of the data being collected is sbject to UK provacy issues that
resulted in all the reporting functions being shut down... We also add to
the issue t
Hey everyone :)
We'll be doing another office hour on IRC for all things Wikidata on April
12th at 4PM UTC.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=04&year=2016
has
your timezone.
I'll give an overview of what's been happening over the past 3 months
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