Suggestions are based on the recent articles that the user has translated with Content Translation. However, for users that have not translated before we are providing them general recommendations even if they have edited articles before.
For the cases where there are not existing translations available, we can use the previous edits the user did as seed articles for suggestions.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T76456 Language Engineering tracker of trackers (tracking) | |||
| Declined | None | T76448 [Epic] ContentTranslation - Entry Points | |||
| Open | None | T87867 Experiment ways to get more users to translate articles (tracking) | |||
| Declined | None | T96134 Entry Point: Show an entry point to ContentTranslation at an empty page in action=view | |||
| Duplicate | None | T90224 Allow anonymous users to translate | |||
| Duplicate | None | T90186 Entry point: change target language from gray links panel | |||
| Declined | None | T90185 Entry point: Change source language from gray link panel | |||
| Resolved | Amire80 | T90172 Suggest interlanguage translation opportunity based on browser Accept-Language | |||
| Resolved | SBisson | T90162 Entry point: New translation from Wikidata | |||
| Invalid | None | T76457 [Epic] ContentTranslation - Translation Dashboard | |||
| Resolved | Nikerabbit | T87439 [Tracking] Suggest articles to translate from the dashboard | |||
| Resolved | Nikerabbit | T155583 Suggest articles to translate based on previous regular edits (when there are no previous translations) |
We need to use User Contributions API here to fetch latest contributions by user to target language, get those pages as seeds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=jsonfm&list=usercontribs&uclimit=3&ucuser=Santhosh.thottingal&ucdir=older is an API example we can use for such purpose
We may want to filter the contributions list to consider only those edits in the main namespace. I don't think that user pages or talk pages would work very well as seeds for suggestions. We may also consider querying more than three contributions since several may be about the same article.
Hmm, isn't this already the case? I had the impression that the suggestions are taken also from usually-edited articles. @leila , do you know?
@Amire80 The API will give you recommendations based on the seed you provide. The source/motivation behind the seed is flexible and is defined by the application that uses the API. In Content Translation case, the tool would take the past n translations of the editor, provide those to the API, and select from the pool of recommendations the API would provide for all the seeds provided. If you want to look at the users' history of edits instead of only translations, this should happen from the CX side as well. The tool, in this case, will request recommendations based on the title of the past m articles edited by the user.
What you remember, I think, is related to the experiment we ran in 2015. That was a more sophisticated model though: based on the editors' history of contributions, we would build a topical model for each editor, and a topical model for all the missing articles in a given language. We would then solve a matching problem between editors and articles based on the affinity of the editor to the missing article (how close the topic of the article is to the topics they have contributed to in the recent past).
This ticket is about populating the main list of suggestions with articles related to those you edited. Technically, using them as a seed for the recommendation algorithm. That is, you are an editor that edited about a painter, and another painter of the same style may be proposed in the suggestions list. We currently do this for articles you have translated with Content Translation, but not with articles the user edited in other ways.
Fetching suggestions tailored for the user ("For you" suggestions), is done by using seed articles. The returned suggestions are articles related to the seed article provided. Below I explain what seed articles we use.