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Dave Musicant | 30 Jul 2012 21:12

New tool to help find topics for editing

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 their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to 
pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia 
articles to edit based on that content.

We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and 
would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and 
continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, 
and/or try it yourself if you're interested?

Here's our website:

http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu

Thanks for your help!

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Steven Walling | 30 Jul 2012 22:00
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Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:

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 their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.

We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it yourself if you're interested?

Here's our website:

http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu

Thanks for your help!


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This is awesome. Is the source available, or at least some documentation of your architecture?

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WereSpielChequers | 30 Jul 2012 22:08
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Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

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 experience of SuggestBot  would be worth learning from.

WSC

On 30 July 2012 21:00, Steven Walling <swalling <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:
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 their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.

We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it yourself if you're interested?

Here's our website:

http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu

Thanks for your help!


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Dave

This is awesome. Is the source available, or at least some documentation of your architecture?

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Dave Musicant | 31 Jul 2012 03:31

Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

Thanks for idea, WSC -- it's a good one.

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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 sources they can read. But both approaches may have their users, and the experience of SuggestBot  would be worth learning from.

WSC

On 30 July 2012 21:00, Steven Walling <swalling <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:
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 their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.

We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it yourself if you're interested?

Here's our website:

http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu

Thanks for your help!


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This is awesome. Is the source available, or at least some documentation of your architecture?

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Dave Musicant | 31 Jul 2012 03:27

Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

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 Apache/Django/PostgreSQL website, so it's hard to release a standalone version of the code that someone else could install. But describing the architecture and providing snippets of source code for those who are interested is certainly doable.

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Steven Walling wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:
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 their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.

We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it yourself if you're interested?

Here's our website:

http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu

Thanks for your help!


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This is awesome. Is the source available, or at least some documentation of your architecture?

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Jodi Schneider | 31 Jul 2012 11:24
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Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

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 somebody just coming in with a link. Any chance of
adding something to the login page to make it clear what it does?

Maybe:
"wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put in their preferred
news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or
whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit
based on that content."

Even if you can't add it to the login page, maybe adding it to the
register page could work?

-Jodi

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:
> 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 their preferred
> news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or
> whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on
> that content.
>
> We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would
> love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue
> using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it
> yourself if you're interested?
>
> Here's our website:
>
> http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
> --
> Dave
>
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Dave Musicant | 31 Jul 2012 16:19

Re: New tool to help find topics for editing

Hi Jodi -

Thanks for the offer to tweet, and for the suggestion! We've added such 
text on our landing page.

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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 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 somebody just coming in with a link. Any chance of
> adding something to the login page to make it clear what it does?
>
> Maybe:
> "wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put in their preferred
> news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or
> whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit
> based on that content."
>
> Even if you can't add it to the login page, maybe adding it to the
> register page could work?
>
> -Jodi
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Dave Musicant <dmusican <at> carleton.edu> wrote:
>> 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 their preferred
>> news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to pop culture, or
>> whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on
>> that content.
>>
>> We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and would
>> love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and continue
>> using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along, and/or try it
>> yourself if you're interested?
>>
>> Here's our website:
>>
>> http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave
>>
>>
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