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Suggesions seem to favour celebrities and media pop stuff than personal interest

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103.139.179.35 (talkcontribs)

It seems like interests like physics, technology, geography or such is not as much suggested as pop stuff. Especially stuff that might interest US individuals into celebrity stuff.

MMiller (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Thank you for this observation! What is the context where you experienced this? Was it in a prototype linked from mediawiki.org? Or were you using the Growth features in your wiki?

In any case, I think you're getting at an important issue: to what extent the recommendations we give users are unintentionally biased toward certain kinds of content. We think it's important that communities are able to use the features we build to enrich content in the domains that matter to them. The main capability that facilitates this in wikis where the Growth features are deployed is "topic modeling", in which users can choose from 39 topics of interest to get recommendations. This includes topics like "Entertainment", "Music", and "TV and film". We hope that this helps all users find something they're interested in.

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