Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

2014-04-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 16 April 2014 19:28, Simon Knight wrote: > Thanks Dan, to be clear, the proposal is not to develop another manual > rating system (such as the AFT or the project rating systems), it's to > develop some automated quality assessments. Those might include some manual > elements as inputs particul

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

2014-04-16 Thread Simon Knight
Thanks Dan, to be clear, the proposal is not to develop another manual rating system (such as the AFT or the project rating systems), it’s to develop some automated quality assessments. Those might include some manual elements as inputs particularly for any machine learning approach, but generat

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

2014-04-16 Thread Deskana
Something similar was tried at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Article Feedback Tool. This all happened before I joined the WMF, and I wasn't aware of it in my time as a volunteer, so I'm mostly reciting what others have told me here. Take what I say with a pinch of salt. There were two major p

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)

2014-04-16 Thread Michael Maggs
On 26 Mar 2014, at 21:35, Andrew Gray wrote: > > > It would be great if this sort of rating was being systematically checked - > but at a vague estimate of thirty seconds to scan, grade, and tag, > aggregated across all pages on enwiki, that's about fifteen or twenty > person-years of work to d

[Wikimediauk-l] Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the University of Manchester

2014-04-16 Thread rexx
The University of Manchester in conjunction with WMUK is organising a Women in Science Wikipedia Editathon during the day on 22 May 2014 at the University of Manchester, followed by a panel discussion in the evening. Details and registration are at: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Women_in_Science_W

[Wikimediauk-l] Voting for the affiliate-selected seats on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-04-16 Thread Michael Maggs
Hi all Voting for the affiliate-selected board seats is now open, and WMUK as a chapter has to place a vote by 31st May by ranking the candidates in order of preference. The two available seats are reserved specifically for candidates chosen by the affiliate organisations. Before making any dec

[Wikimediauk-l] Berlin reports

2014-04-16 Thread Jon Davies
Lots to read - now up on the wiki https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/WIKICON_BERLIN_2014_report -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. R