Hello all, I had a recently had a lovely chat with Ed Saperia, a community member working on projects related to discovering news in Wikipedia, to let him know what the Discovery Team is about and what we are doing with the Wikipedia Portal page. Ed is working on a recommender algorithm that will provide a sortable listing of news, so that users of his algorithm can help make Wikipedia a source of news for users and readers. It's meant to be open and collaborative, ideally with the codebase existing on wiki like Lua modules. This algorithm, in theory, would be able to reference all metadata (article views, edits, timestamps, etc) and semantic data (categories, Wikidata properties) that are related to each edit. We chatted about how to make his project more informative by using Wikidata and that it'd be a good idea to have sections (or filters) for sports, deaths, celebrities, politics, etc. He'd also like to have info on why the recommended article is there, something like: "This [person/topic] is trending because X number of edits were made in the last 24 hours" or "This [person] is trending because X's [date of death] was added." I showed him a few trending sites that some of our community folks are working on that are somewhat similar: http://top.hatnote.com/ andhttp://www.trending.eu/en/1/. Those sites don't necessarily show as much rich metadata as Ed's site project hopes to have, but they're still pretty neat to see as trending article sites. Ed and his team of developers will be meeting in a few weeks to work on their project and might offer us a chance to chat with them about this project. I let him know that our team is hoping to launch a Portal Labs project for the community to view at any time and provide feedback on proposed Portal re-designs and enhancements. I think Ed's recommender algorithm project for trending articles would be fun to add in as a sample alternative page! Overall, he's got some very good ideas and I'm excited to see where his project ends up! Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery