Bonding Period Report (April 22nd - May 22nd)

Work Done

• Discussed the project plan with the mentor
• Initiated Village Pump and Administrator's Notice board discussions for finding out appropriate backlog categories that can be implemented by our flagging algorithms. Discussions can be viewed here and here respectively.
• Began taking the course CS224d - Stanford lectures on 'Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing' for help with implementing a neural net
• Went over chapters 9 and 10 from the book Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg (I had completed the first 8 chapters during the application period)

Meeting

• 1st meeting held on Google Hangouts on 10th May 2016 UTC 5pm
• Meeting Minutes can be viewed below

Lessons Learnt

• Create meeting minutes report not more than two days from actual meeting

Problems Faced

• Communication - Poor video call quality (due to low bandwidth?), had to switch over to chat

Communication Plan

• Communication with mentors via emails daily or every two days
• Biweekly meetings on Hangouts
• Weekly progress to be reported on the tracking task

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Meeting Minutes

Date and Time

• 10th May 2016 - UTC 5pm

Agenda

1. Architecture of a neural net we may want to implement
2. Wikipedia Backlogs
3. Citation Hunt
4. Top 3 flagging concerns that we want to address
5. Administrative tasks for GSoC

Details

1. Architecture of a Neural Net

• Discussed the machine learning algorithms that we may look at implementing
• Analyzed the ORES wp10 classifier.
• Discussed the possibility of using LSTMs or RNNs for our neural net
• Data collection from the categories in WP:backlogs

2. Wikipedia Backlogs

• Discussed the backlog categories that we need to first start working on
• A few candidate categories shortlisted were were:
  • Lacking references
  • Accuracy -broken/outdated citations, needs updating, has original research
  • Content - copied and pasted
  • Links - has dead links
  • Style - needs copy edit
• Of these, outdated content was decided as our top priority, followed by copy-edit type of articles if we are able to implement a fairly robust grammar checker

3. Citation Hunt

• Discussed the possibility of integrating with Citation Hunt
• Checkout their API

4. Top 3 flagging concerns

• Finalize the list by 21st May

5. Administrative tasks for GSoC

• Create 'Wikipedias-Accuracy-Review' Project on Phabricator
• Create Meeting Minutes Report
• Initiate discussions on Village Pump and Administrators' Notice Board
• Create Bonding Period Report