Grants:IEG/Automated Notability Detection/Timeline

This project is funded by an Individual Engagement Grant

Timeline for Automated Notability Detection

Timeline	Date
Finish handcoding site and volunteer recruitment; begin handcoding	1 April 2016
Complete handcoding	1 July 2016
Complete modeling and validation	1 September 2016

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

January

I created a classifier that can distinguish between articles in different general categories. We'll use this to pre-categorize articles by which high-level notability guideline (e.g. people, books, movies) applies to them before applying a topic-specific notability classifier.

February

Started extracting features for the topic-specific classifiers. Worked primarily on movies.

March-April

Worked on preparing the data for hand-annotation; continued extracting features. (Started on books.)

May 2015 -- March 2016

Project in hibernation due to time conflicts.

March 2016

Project restarted. Working on creating handcoding page to work with m:Wiki_labels.

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New end date

Tentatively September 2016. Rough timeline:

March 2016: prepare hand-coding site; expected integration with Wiki labels
April-July 2016: volunteers hand-code pages
May-August: model building and validation
August-September: wrap-up and hand-over to someone (paid or volunteer) who can build an API

Rationale

I (Bluma Gelley, main grantee) have had some unexpected things come up which took a lot of my time, so I was unable to devote as much time to this project as planned. I am really invested in the project and hope that you'll give me a chance to continue.

Hi Bluma, per this request and our associated call about the delays in your project, I'm approving this extension request for your project, setting a new end date of September 30, 2016. Pleased to hear that you are keeping Aaron Halfaker abreast of your project and looking forward to hearing about your outcomes. --Marti (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 15 March 2016 (UTC)