Would be good to collaborate with @leila, who is actively building an Article-Recommendation suite as well.

@awight: good idea! We've pushed this back in our roadmap, and the focus will — to begin with — be on finding topics that have significant view traffic but aren't well-developed, especially within a certain topic area (such as a professor's area of expertise), with the expectation that the user who is trying to find an article or set of articles that need improvement will be an active participant in the selection process. So it's probably at least somewhat of a different direction than the article recommendation suite's early features, but there might be some significant cross-pollination opportunities.

Related to this, I have noticed that if you insert "available articles" list, and then want to start assigning, you can't "pick them" from the list. This would be easier for article-centered courses.

@Ragesoss happy to see this task is coming back! :) Some thoughts:

• From the definition of the task, it seems to me that article creation will not find in the scope of the task. Is this correct? If it does, we can use the API behind GapFinder and do a couple of relatively simple iterations on it to surface articles to be considered for creation.

• We now have ways for recommending what sections to be added to already existing articles in English Wikipedia which from my read of the task is more aligned with the description of it. Is this something you'd like to experiment with?

If you find it useful, I'd be happy to talk with you to learn more about your needs and what we can surface to help you in that direction given that this task is very much aligned with the knowledge gap work.

@leila:

• article creation can definitely be in scope if the GapFinder API can be put to the task!
• recommended sections are also potentially a great thing to integrate

In the medium to long term, I think we want to be able to bring together both manual and automated suggestions for a specific gaps, and make those easily accessible to anyone who picks one of those gap topics as their assigned article. That stuff would probably be a stretch goal or follow-on work for a GSoC / Outreachy project, as the first step is just to get a basic tool that lets users explore a topic area in a basic way and pick articles for course / program participants to choose from to work on. But we've got to start somewhere.

I'd love to talk with you about this, at your convenience. :-)

Hello i would like to work on this project can someone tell me how should i proceed

(Realized I never posted the reply that I composed a while back, so just for bookkeeping...)

@tabish.shaikh91 hi! I've sent you an invite to our slack channel for this project.

Hi, my name is Shivam Goyal. I would like to contribute to this project. I have already done the environment setup. Pretty excited for the project!

@g33kyshivam email me (sage at wikiedu.org) and I'll send you an invite to the slack channel.

Hello, @Ragesoss.I am Nishikant Mohanty. I am enthusiastic about contributing to this project. Currently on the learning path of ruby on rails. Would love to contribute to this project and excited about a great learning experience

Hi @Nishikant_mohanty. Send me an email and I can get you an invite to the project slack.

Hello @Ragesoss

I am Raounak Sharma, a passionate Ruby developer. I have a year of experience in Rails and angular. and it's been more than two months I am working on ReactJS. I am very much excited to contribute to this project. I have sent you a mail regarding that.

To know more about me hit the following links:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raounak-sharma-63219366/
Github: https://github.com/Ronaq13
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Ayv7_2TJ15HhyGR6nXxXg
Personal Website: https://www.raounak-sharma.com

Let's get started.

Cheers
Raounak Sharma

Hi @Ragesoss
I am Paarmita Bhargava. I am interested in contributing to this project. I have done the environment setup already and sent you the mail also.

@Ragesoss there's ongoing work around topic modeling for English Wikipedia using WikiProject topics as bases. If Education Program Dashboard has some similar categorization of articles around pre-defined topics, a similar model can be built to predict topics as well as recommend them. Let me know if you wanna talk more about it.

@Sumit I'm not sure what exactly you have in mind, but it sounds like it might be very relevant! We should talk... maybe sometime soon after the GSoC/Outreachy announcements, so we can include the intern.

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After doing some contribution. With my experience, I finally confident to submit proposal for this project. :D.

ping @Ragesoss @psinghal20 Is there anything remaining in this task from GSoC'18? If not, then please consider marking it as resolved! Ensure no pull requests are remaining to be merged and deployed in production and documentation both on-wiki and in the code is complete.

Same goes for T189991