For those who didn't make it to WikiConference USA, you can watch
everything that happened in the biggest auditorium on YouTube. (Don't
forget the settings to play at higher speed—most people don't talk as fast
as you can listen.)
While it isn't focused on Discovery, I found Andrew Lih's talk to be very
interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6U22uJzGM&t=24m30s
Links to the other National Archives recordings are on the schedule:
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Schedule
Other talks were also recorded, but not by the National Archives. I'm sure
they'll pop up somewhere online eventually.
Aaron Halfaker gave a very cool talk on AI bots that support Wikipedia, and
discusses a machine learning platform that could support other tasks—and
though he didn't mention it, I thought of detecting languages, detecting
gibberish queries (very similar to what they do to find gibberish edits),
and other things that may be useful to Discovery:
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Revscoring:_AI_support_f…
See more on machine learning as a service here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
—Trey
Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation