Grants talk:IEG/WikiBrainTools

Some algorithmically intensive tools that already exist

This is a neat idea! Here are a few tools that already use rich algorithms and might be helpful to look into/talk to their developers:

• ClueBot (anti-vandalism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_NG
• STiki (anti-vandalism/spam): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STiki
• CorenSearchBot (anti-plagiarism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CorenSearchBot

Useful people to talk to:

• Coren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Coren
• Stu Geiger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Staeiou
• Aaron Halfaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail

Useful places to seek feedback and post notifications:

• Bot Approvals Group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group
• Research Committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee
• Research Mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Looking forward to hearing more about your idea! Cheers, Jake Ocaasi (talk) 17:16, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, User:Ocaasi! I've already made some of the content-based changes you suggested (e.g. useful mailing lists to tap). I've also been in touch with User:EpochFail. Once the feedback period is open on Wed, I'll email the remaining people to see what kinds of improvements they'd suggest. Shilad (talk) 19:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Finalize your proposal this week!

Hi Shilad and Brenthect. Thanks for drafting this proposal!

• We're hosting one last IEG proposal help session in Google Hangouts this weekend, so please join us if you'd like to get some last-minute help or feedback as you finalize your submission.
• Once you're ready to submit it for review, please update its status (in your page's Probox markup) from DRAFT to PROPOSED, as the deadline is September 30th.
• If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact me (IEG committee member) or Siko (IEG program head), or just post a note on this talk page and we'll see it.

Cheers, Ocaasi (talk) 20:04, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Promoting WikiBrain?

@Shilad and Brenthecht: Hey there. Very pleased to read this as someone who reads up on Wikipedia-related research. I'm not surprised to hear many researchers stray away from research in the area due to the interface-related obstacles they face that prevent data extraction. As this is one of the main problems you identify, though, I wanted to ask what this team might consider doing to inform and attract potential researchers to this new treasure trove of algorithms. Presumably (but correct me if I am wrong), many in the WikiTools community are already familiar with extracting data to inform their work. I get that this proposal would make their jobs easier and would open up new research avenues, but how will you be reaching out beyond the WikiTools community? I JethroBT (talk) 22:08, 29 September 2014 (UTC)