[Foundation-l] (no subject)

Sat Apr 9 15:35:54 UTC 2005

Hoi,

This is a request that has been waiting for an answer now for a month. 
Personally I am of the opinion that we should positively answer this 
request. Sander Spek is one of the most respected Dutch wikipedians, he 
is the one mentoring Frank Schepers. If there is a need for extra surity 
for the privacy of the table, we can ask for some acknowledgment that it 
will be used only and exclusively for the use of this research.

Thanks,
GerardM
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Frank Schepers
Keelstraat 5a
3770 Vroenhoven – Riemst (Belgium)
0032 – 498 – 365280

Hello,

I'm a last year student Knowledge Engineering/Computer Science of the 
faculty of General
Sciences at the University of Maastricht. The subject of the Master 
Thesis I'm working
on is: "Personalization of the WikiWikiWeb". On the Dutch Wikipedia I 
have an account with
the nickname frankschepers, but I don't have edited articles yet. My 
supervisor is prof.
dr. Jaap van den Herik. My daily advisor will be drs. Sander Spek, who 
is a frequent editor
on the Dutch Wikipedia site and who came up with the subject of this 
Master thesis. The
thesis will contain a theoretical and a practical part. In the 
theoretical part various
methods of personalization will be examined and their applicability on 
Wiki's.
In the practical part, I will make an extension for the wikimedia 
software. This will be
an article recommender system. This system will display for a 
Wikipedian, who has a watch
list, some articles that aren't on his watch list, but though are 
interesting for him.
If it is possible to create a good working recommender system, this will 
improve the quality
of the articles on Wikipedia because more interested users will 
read/edit the article.

So I will evaluate if personalization can be applied in an effective 
way on Wiki's.
For this research I need a database dump of the watchlist table. This 
table cannot be downloaded
from http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/nl/ because of some privacy 
issues I suppose.

So my question is, if it is possible to get a database dump of the watch 
list table.

If you require any further information, feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,

Frank