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
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