Accuracy review

= Accuracy review =


 * Public URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
 * Phabricator report: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89416
 * Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080766.html

Contact information

 * Email: info@arowf.org
 * Web Page: http://arowf.org

Synopsis
Create a medawiki-utilities bot to find articles in given categories, category trees, and lists. For each such article, find passages with (1) facts and statistics which are likely to have become out of date and have not been updated in a given number of years, and optionally (2) phrases which are likely unclear. Add an indication of the location and the text of those passages either to the page in question using templates, to a bookkeeping page with other page names as headings, and/or to a database local to the bot.

Use a customizable array of keywords and regular expressions, and measures of text comprehensibility (or optionally, the DELPH-IN LOGIN parser) to find such passages for review. Use an algorithm at least as good as that in to pre-compute the age of each word in an article, to avoid the move and blanking issues described in e.g.,  before processing each article of interest.

Present candidate suspect passages 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, if any. When reviewers disagree, update the template, if any, to reflect that fact, and present the question to a third reviewer to break the tie.

Next steps
Document updated schema. Improve candidate passage queue management, reviewer workflow, reviewer reputation database, and reporting. Include double-blinded identity and action codings for reviewer reputation database.

Call for participation
There are additional detailed plans for testing which Accuracy Review of Wikipedias Foundation staff will be happy to discuss with interested co-mentors, because depending on available resources, there could be ways to eliminate substantial duplication of effort. Co-mentor volunteers include Maribel Acosta and Fabian Flöck.

If you are interested in volunteering, please click [edit source] to add your name and preferred contact information here:


 * 1) Adriana Bachmann, abachmann@asu.edu