Fwd: WikiTrust Undergraduate Opportunity

[Scott Davis]

Hi Admins,

Can we please add Kyle to our channels. Thanks.

S.

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From: Kyle Worcester-Moore <kwor...@ucsc.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: WikiTrust Undergraduate Opportunity
To: Luca de Alfaro <lu...@ucsc.edu>
Cc: Scott Davis <okdo...@ucsc.edu>

Hi Scott & Dr. Alfaro,

I came to the meeting this morning and it looks like a lot of planning and progress is already being made! I will look into options for rendering the wikipedia html with an extension, bookmarklet or seperate website this week.

However, I'm not yet on the Slack/Google Drive. I'd appreciate If one of the admins could add me to the Slack when they have time. This email (kwor...@ucsc.edu) works best for Slack & Google Drive.

Thanks, and I look forward to working more with the whole team!

 - Kyle

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:51 PM Kyle Worcester-Moore <kwor...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

Hello Scott & Dr. Alfaro,

I'm realizing that it's hard for me to make it to the Friday meeting time listed on the new website. (I have a class on Fridays until 10:50am). That said, I can be there for the second half of the meetings (11am - 12am), starting next Friday. 

If that doesn't work, let me know.

Thanks,

 - Kyle Worcester-Moore

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 11:26 AM Luca de Alfaro <lu...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

Fresh for you, here's the project home page. 

https://sites.google.com/view/wikitrust2

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:18 AM Scott Davis <okdo...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

Hi Kyle,

 Welcome aboard. I will add you to the mailing list and the Slack channel. 

Best,

Scott.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:14 AM Luca de Alfaro <lu...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

Dear Kyle, 

let me forward this to Scott Davis, who is the project coordinator, so he can add you to the mailing list and you can start looking at the project and coming at the meetings if you so like. 

Many thanks for your interest!

Luca

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:18 AM Kyle Worcester-Moore <kwor...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

Hello Dr. Alfaro,

I'm Kyle. I'm a second year student in the CS - Game Design major. I found your undergrad project page on the Baskin Engineering Newsletter, and the WikiTrust 2.0 project in particular really fascinated me. Using each user's revision history as a metric of trust is such an ingenious idea when dealing with the vast scale of wikipedia. I'd love to know more about how its algorithm works and how I might be able to help improve it.

Most of my past projects have been written in languages other than Python such as Javascript for web dev with Node on the back-end, c# for coding games in Unity and Java, among others. I've also integrated various no-sql databases and most recently, the graph database Neo4j. However, this past summer I worked a lot with Python for a project I'm doing with some friends we're calling WikiService. While our concept shifted away from a wiki structure, we still faced similar problems to WikiTrust (mostly in finding and sorting quality information - which is one of the reasons I'm interested in working on WikiTrust 2.0).

You can find out more about me on my Web Portfolio, or look at my Github Page. (I can also explain more about WikiService and share our python scripts, which aren't on my Github, if you'd like)

If there are any spots open on the WikiTrust team, I'd love to help. 

Have a great day!

  -  Kyle Worcester-Moore

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Luca de Alfaro

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Luca de Alfaro

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz

[Matthew Boisvert]

Hi Scott, I was only able to add Kyle to our Slack due to permission issues. It seems that we also need someone to add Kyle (and potentially others if more members join) to the Google Groups, the Google Drive, and the GitHub repo. I'm currently making a doc on the Google Drive listing all of the admins for each platform that I'm aware of (and I would certainly be willing to help manage some of the platforms) so that we can have a more streamlined system for adding people/figuring out admin stuff.