Grants talk:IEG/AutomaticCategorization

How would this be incorporated in Mediawiki?

Hi davidam,

How would the tool you're proposing be incorporated into MediaWiki? To be eligible for funding, projects must completed without assistance or review from WMF engineering, so MediaWiki Extensions or software features requiring code review and integration cannot be funded. On-wiki tech work (templates, user scripts, gadgets) and completely standalone applications without a hosting dependency are allowed, though. Can you please provide some more information about the type of software you have in mind to create for this project?

Thanks, Siko (WMF) (talk) 22:48, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

caveats

As mentioned on the talk page I have some caveats about this proposal

• It's unclear whether the proposer has much wiki experience and I have little confidence that a user with this much apparent experience is likely to get a bot approved. This can be overcome by teaming up with one or more suitably motivated wikipedians with experience on the wikis being used for testing.
• This is a single-person project and we've had bad experiences in the past with bots and tools built by a single user that no one else understands or can maintain. This can be overcome by teaming up with one or more suitably motivated wikipedians with experience on the wikis being used for testing.

I have other questions / suggestions but they're not of a serious nature, so I'll put them in a separate section. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:04, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

suggestions

Here are a couple of suggestions, based mainly on my experience on en.wiki:

• Pick a likely-looking toolset for interacting with wikipedia, there are several listed at w:en:Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Programming_languages_and_libraries.
• Pick a likely-looking algorithm library, there are several discussed at [1]
• I'd aim to classify by wikiproject initially, since there are ~ 2000 wikiprojects and several orders of magnitude more categories. wikiprojects are essentially super-categories.

Good luck. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:36, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Budget only for travel to non-Wikimedia events?

From what I understand so far, it seems like you are mostly looking for travel funds, perhaps to attend conferences or other academic gatherings that will help you further this idea? If so, this could possibly be more easily funded with our Travel and Participation Support Program, which funds Wikimedians to travel to travel to conferences and other events, in order to further Wikimedia projects. Active participation plans to improve MediaWiki would perhaps qualify you to attend a specific event via that program. Siko (WMF) (talk) 20:16, 9 October 2014 (UTC)