Thanks for the detailed explanation, Aaron. As always your work is a model in transparency for the rest of us :)
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:40 PM Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Luis! Thanks for taking a look. > > First, I should say that false-positives should be expected. We're > working on better signaling in the UI so that you can differentiate the > edits that ORES is confident about and those that it isn't confident about > -- but are still worth your review. > > So, in order to avoid a bias feedback loop, we don't want to feed any > observations you made *using* ORES back into the model -- since ORES' > prediction itself could bias your assessment and we'd re-perpetuate that > bias. Still, we can use these misclassification reports to direct our > attention to problematic behaviors in the model. We use the Wiki Labels > system[1] to gather reviews of random samples of edits from Wikipedians in > order to train the model. > > *Misclassification reports:* > See > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service/Misclassifications/Edit_quality > > We're still working out the Right(TM) way to report false positives. > Right now, we ask that you do so on-wiki and in the future, we'll be > exploring a nicer interface so that you can report them while using the > tool. We review these misclassification reports manually to focus our work > on the models and to report progress made. This data is never directly > used in training the machine learning models due to issues around bias. > > *Wiki labels campaigns:* > In order to avoid the biases in who gets reviewed and why, we generate > random samples of edits for review using our Wiki Labels[1] system. We've > completed a labeling campaign for English Wikipedia[2], but we could run an > additional campaign to gather more data. I'll get that set up and respond > to this message when it is ready. > > 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels > 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Labels/Edit_quality > > -Aaron > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > >> Very cool! Is there any way for users of this tool to help train it? For >> example, the first four things it flagged in my watchlist were all false >> positives (next 5-6 were correctly flagged.) It'd be nice to be able to >> contribute to training the model somehow when we see these false-positives. >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:10 AM Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> We (The Revision Scoring Team >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team>) >>> are happy to announce the deployment of the ORES >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES> review tool >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool> as a beta feature >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> >>> on *English Wikipedia*. Once enabled, ORES highlights edits that are >>> likely to be damaging in Special:RecentChanges >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges>, Special:Watchlist >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist> and >>> Special:Contributions >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> to help you >>> prioritize your patrolling work. ORES detects damaging edits using a >>> basic prediction model based on past damage >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Automated_classification_of_edit_quality>. >>> ORES is an experimental technology. We encourage you to take advantage of >>> it but also to be skeptical of the predictions made. It's a tool to support >>> you – it can't replace you. Please reach out to us with your questions and >>> concerns. >>> Documentationmw:ORES review tool >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool>, mw:Extension:ORES >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES>, and m:ORES >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES>Bugs & feature requests >>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/revision-scoring-as-a-service-backlog/ >>> IRC#wikimedia-aiconnect >>> <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-ai> >>> Sincerely,Amir from the Revision Scoring team >>> _______________________________________________ >>> AI mailing list >>> a...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ai >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AI mailing list >> a...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ai >> >> > _______________________________________________ > AI mailing list > a...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ai > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l