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)