I invite review of this preliminary proposal for a Google Summer of
Code project:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
If you would like to co-mentor this project, please sign up. I've been
a GSoC mentor every year since 2010, and successfully mentored two
students in 2012 resulting in work which has become academically
relevant, including in languages which I can not read, i.e.,
http://talknicer.com/turkish-tablet.pdf .) I am most interested in
co-mentors at the WMF or Wiki Education Foundation involved with
engineering, design, or education.
Synopsis:
Create a Pywikibot to find articles in given categories, category
trees, and lists. For each such article, add in-line templates to
indicate the location of passages with (1) facts and statistics which
are likely to have become out of date and have not been updated in a
given number of years, and (2) phrases which are likely unclear. Use a
customizable set of keywords and the DELPH-IN LOGIN parser
[
http://erg.delph-in.net/logon] to find such passages for review.
Prepare a table of each word in article dumps indicating its age.
Convert flagged passages to GIFT questions
[
http://microformats.org/wiki/gift] for review and present them to one
or more subscribed reviewers. Update the source template with the
reviewer(s)' answers to the GIFT question, but keep the original text
as part of the template. When reviewers disagree, update the template
to reflect that fact, and present the question to a third reviewer to
break the tie.
Possible stretch goals for Global Learning Xprize Meta-Team systems
[
http://www.wiki.xprize.org/Meta-team#Goals] integration TBD.
Best regards,
James Salsman