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Web application for explaining the automatic article quality grading (with ORES) of English Misplaced Pages articles

Hello Everyone!

I am working on a web application for my bachelor thesis, that aims to explain the automatic grade predictions of ORES articlequality model and on what they are based on, to make it more transparent what an article might be lacking or what makes it so good.

For a last evaluation, I am searching for participants for an usability test to test a functional prototype. It would be especially interesting to test the application with (new) editors of the English Misplaced Pages, because my main goal is to help editors improving their editing skills.

If someone is interested in participation, feel free to contact me in any way.

Any Questions about it are also welcome.

Background Information

Articles on Misplaced Pages are rated and receive a grade. The English Misplaced Pages uses ORES, a machine learning web service created by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Machine Learning team. ORES offers a variety of machine learning models and one of them is the article quality model. This model assesses existing articles automatically and predicts the most likely grade for them based on their structural characteristics.

Update

If someone is still interested in testing, here is a link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVm0c5ezw18KRNf4UxbaKchOVwkMDIUGUQDuk8OvleEcunEg/viewform?usp=sf_link

--Endoplasma (talk) 13:31, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Pinging Nettrom and EpochFail. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:45, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

1. ^ https://www.mediawiki.org/ORES

Endoplasma, maybe it would be helpful if you could directly link to the tool so that people can have a look at it? Alternatively, you could take a screenshot that shows the relevant functionality.

If you are planning to do a proper study (interviewing people, writing up results, etc.), consider creating a project page on Meta. See m:R:New project. That page will help you set up something that you can share as a reference for the project and that we'll be able to use to track your activities/progress. --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 19:36, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Centenary & Tricentenary

Centenary & Tricentenary redirect to different pages......... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 00:30, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@0mtwb9gd5wx: Is that a problem? If you think so, send the incorrect one to WP:RFD. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:40, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Perhaps, as a quick-fix, both Centennial and Anniversary should have hatnotes to each other? Like mauve and umami, Bicentennial is a product description, by a business. Prior to the 1976 Bicentennial Commission for the anniversary of the USA founding, the USA government used the word centenary in its publications. I propose that Centennial, Bicentennial, Tricentennial, Quadricentennial... etc., and Centenary Bicentenary Tricentenary Quadricentenary... etc. content be merged to, and name redirected to, Anniversary. WP:RFD started. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 02:01, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Dummy ISBN

By coincidence, I noticed multiple references use this "dummy" ISBN: 978-1-234-56789-7. (Note the pattern of increasing numbers, except the prefix and the checksum.) Although it does correspond to a book, all the references (I suppose) actually deal with completely different works. It might be worth investigating where these ISBNs come from (and fix the invalid references).

Strange enough, this is what citoid (citation generator in visual editor) generates from it:

• Kumar, Ranjit (2011). Research methodology : a step-by-step guide for beginners (3rd ed.). Los Angeles: SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84920-300-5. OCLC 688576521.

--Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:42, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

New Misplaced Pages Library collections and design update (August 2021)

Hello Wikimedians!

The Misplaced Pages Library is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:

• Cabells – Scholarly and predatory journal database
• Taaghche - Persian language e-books
• Merkur, Musik & Ästhetik, and Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse - German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
• Art Archiv, Capital, Geo, Geo Epoche, and Stern - German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr

Additionally, De Gruyter and Nomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Misplaced Pages. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to The Misplaced Pages Library with your Wikimedia login!

We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the project page on Meta.

Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do so at TranslateWiki!

--The Misplaced Pages Library Team, sent by Samwalton9 13:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Misplaced Pages Library Global Delivery List.

is there a place to keep track of copyright permission requests?

Is there any sort of archive that keeps track of copyright permission requests?

c:Commons:WikiProject Permission requests only shows a handful of entries. This suggests either 1) people don't really bother to ask authors for a release of rights or 2) most of those requests are not publicly recorded. If someone else has requested permission to publish a work under a free license and was denied, then it would be useful for others to know so that they don't waste time trying to contact the same author. Ixfd64 (talk) 21:00, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Publicising peer review discussion

This article had press coverage; for this reason, I think this peer review about it requires attention. Thank you.--V. E. (talk) 11:51, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

YouTube Music stealing English Misplaced Pages content without attribution

I'm one of the schmucks in the world who pays for YouTube music and recently came across the artist biographies in the app that nobody ever reads. I've discovered that they wholesale steal Misplaced Pages content in pretty much all the artist biographies. For instance, here's the page on Daft Punk (scroll down to bottom) , wholesale taken from our article with no attribution. Likewise for 50 Cent. When I emailed YTM support they told me that the artist biographies are provided by the artists themselves (sure they are) and that I should use the "feedback" button in the app, which we all know worked amazing for WP:CALIPH. They also said that they only provided support for purchases and my concern was out of scope.

Normally I'd follow our policies on mirrors and forks but Google doesn't provide any actual contact information to send the CC-BY-SA template to anymore, unless I am willing to send a physical letter to the Google headquarters. Anyone else got any ideas? The last time I asked WMF legal about this issue back in 2015 with Google Play Music doing this they told me to send the amazing CC-BY-SA compliance letter, so that's likely a dead end. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply)Template:Z181 20:17, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

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