Wikimedia Technology/Annual Plans/FY2019/TEC5: Scoring Platform/Goals

=Program Goals and Status for FY18/19=

 TEC5: Scoring Platform (ORES)
 * Goal Owner: Aaron Halfaker
 * Program Goals for FY18/19: Improve the efficiency of wiki processes and mitigate the effects of algorithmic biases that are introduced.
 * Annual Plan: TEC5 Scoring Platform
 * Primary Goal is Knowledge Equity: Grow new contributors and content
 * Tech Goal: Supporting our Community of contributors



 = Q1 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1
More wiki communities benefit from semi-automated curation support
 * ORES supports the edit quality prediction models for more wikis/languages

Dependancies on: SRE team

Goal(s)

 * Keep ORES online and improve robustness

Status
July 30, 2018

August 9, 2018

September 13, 2018
 * ...and will be forever and ever :)

Outcome 2 / Output 3
Grow the community of wiki decision process modelers and tool builders (staff, volunteers, academics)
 * Published posts about ORES, AI, wiki processes, etc. in the ORES manual

Dependancies on: Cloud Services team

Goal(s)

 * Documentation -- Threshold optimizations in The ORES Manual

Status
July 30, 2018

August 9, 2018

September 13, 2018
 * and is in review with Sarah R

Outcome 2 / Output 4
Grow the community of wiki decision process modelers and tool builders (staff, volunteers, academics)
 * Workshops run, papers published, datasets published, tutorials published, hackathons co-organized

Goal(s)

 * Developing a focus group for JADE

Status
July 30, 2018

August 9, 2018

September 13, 2018

Outcome 3 / Output 5
Users of ORES-based-tools can build a repository of human judgement to contrast with model-predictions
 * JADE (our auditing system) accepts and stores human judgements

Dependancies on: SRE Team

Goal(s)

 * JADE --> Production

Status
July 30, 2018
 * ❌ The block on our JADE --> Production goal is a serious threat at this point, but there's nothing to do except to follow an RFC in the short term.

August 9, 2018
 * ❌ DBA's have confirmed a ceiling of growth for JADE in MediaWiki. An RFC discussion is scheduled for Aug. 22nd

September 13, 2018
 * Currently still ❌ because TechCom has requested iteration on our secondary tables for MediaWiki before they will consider closing the discussion

 =Q2 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1
More wiki communities benefit from semi-automated curation support
 * ORES supports the edit quality prediction models for more wikis/languages

Dependancies on: SRE, Security teams

Goal(s)

 * Upgrade Celery to version 4 ￼✅
 * Fix logging (redirect useful logs to logstash) ￼✅
 * Implement edit quality models for translatewiki ￼  should be done by end of quarter

Status
October 18, 2018

December 13, 2018
 * These goals are at this point and will be fully ✅ by end of quarter.

Outcome 2 / Output 3
Grow the community of wiki decision process modelers and tool builders (staff, volunteers, academics)
 * Published posts about ORES, AI, wiki processes, etc. on the Wikimedia blog in ORES manual

Dependancies on: Cloud Services Team

Goal(s)

 * Documentation -- Feature Injection in The ORES Manual
 * Blog announcement of the Undisclosed Paid Editors dataset
 * Resubmit ORES paper to the Journal of Social Computing ❌

Status
October 18, 2018

December 13, 2018
 * This is and will be finished by end of this quarter; although we will not resubmit the paper.

Outcome 3 / Output 5
Users of ORES-based-tools can build a repository of human judgement to contrast with model-predictions
 * JADE (our auditing system) accepts and stores human judgements

Dependancies on: SRE Team

Goal(s)

 * JADE --> Production (4 small wiki deployments pending local consensus)

Status
October 18, 2018

December 13, 2018
 * This is and will be finished in early Q3

 =Q3 Goals =

Outcome 3 / Output 5
Users of ORES-based-tools can build a repository of human judgement to contrast with model-predictions
 * JADE (our auditing system) accepts and stores human judgements

Goal(s)

 * Implement basic Jade integration (???) (carryover + additional commitment)

Status
January 2019
 * Discussed...

February 2019
 * Discussed...

March 2019
 * Discussed...

Outcome 1 / Output 1
More wiki communities benefit from semi-automated curation support
 * ORES supports the edit quality prediction models for more wikis/languages

Dependancies on: SRE, Security teams

Goal(s)

 * Prepare ORES for kubernetes (ETA: 2 quarters)
 * Implement high-availability strategy for redis
 * Implement safe task serialization for celery (JSON)

Status
January 2019
 * Discussed...

February 2019
 * Discussed...

March 2019
 * Discussed...

Strategy/Annual planning
Engage with 3-5 year strategy and annual planning process. Dependancies on: Audiences, Research, Search

Goals

 * Develop proposal for building "topic spaces" infrastructure
 * Develop annual plan program proposal for FY20



=Q4 Goals =

Outcome X / Output X
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Goal(s)

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Status
April 2019
 * Discussed...

May 2019
 * Discussed...

June 2019
 * Discussed...