Research:Technology

Technical documentation for research projects.

APIs and systems in production

• Recommendation API
• Article recommender
• Overview of the article recommendation pipeline

Research Landing Page

See Research:Technology/LandingPage for more details on how https://research.wikimedia.org/ is being served and how you can change its content.

Codebases

Research related codebases mainly live in 3 places:

• In Gerrit under the "research" namespace, e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/repos/q/filter:research
• In Gerrit under other namespaces, e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/services/recommendation-api
• In GitHub, under WMF organization account, prefixed with "research-", e.g., https://github.com/wikimedia/research-api-endpoint-template. Some other repositories also live under staff's personal accounts, and the goal is to move them over to the organization's account.

Cloud Services

The following are Research projects hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services.

WMF Research Tools (wmf-research-tools)

This is a project for hosting various research related experiments.

• wikilabels - http://research-wikilabels.wmflabs.org

Recommendation API (recommendation-api)

In this project we host Gapfinder related instances (some instance names have the '-buster' prefix. The prefix was added when migrating instances from Debian Jessie to Buster):

• recommendation-api-build
• tool - https://recommend.wmflabs.org/
• tool-alpha - https://recommend-alpha.wmflabs.org/missing_sections
• tool-missing-sections (Python) - https://recommend-missing-sections.wmflabs.org
• missing-sections (Node.js) - http://gapfinder.wmflabs.org
• rec-wiki - http://rec-wiki.wmflabs.org
• related-articles - https://recommend-related-articles.wmflabs.org/
• gapfinder-tools - http://gapfinder-tools.wmflabs.org/

Gathering user input

Various research projects need high quality crowd-sourced data. Gathering user input outlines ways of getting that data.

Mailing lists

If you've developed a program that notifies you of an important update via email, you can use the `research-alerts at wikimedia dot org` Google group to catch those notifications. Let Bahodir know if you want to be in that group.