Wikipedia:Snuggle/Work log/Archive Sept13

Sunday, September 1st
So, I've been working on this idea. I've done some research in the past that took advantage of the bursty temporal nature of editing behavior by aggregating these bursts into "Edit Sessions" . These are really useful in quantitative analysis for determining cool things (e.g. the English Wikipedia has taken approximately 45 million labor hours to build ).

The mockup on the right a way of using edits sessions visually, to better understand a user's history of contribution. When incorporating my thoughts on Snuggle, I realized that tying in other events like warnings and welcomes would be useful to present. What you see on the right is my first hack at a UI design that would capture this view. What do you think? --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 19:19, 1 September 2013 (UTC)



Saturday, September 7th
I just deployed a new version of Snuggle with lots of little UI cleanup based on things that have been reported in interviews with new Snuggle users.
 * The diff preview is substantially wider so you should need to scroll less.
 * The uncategorized talk icon is no longer a mysterious blue circle, but rather a gray circle with a tool tip "general discussion".
 * The new categorizer is live (see update from Wednesday, July 10th)
 * I've started reporting the odds ratio for "desirability" in newcomers' stats (higher is better)
 * I've made some improvements in performance and stability

Please let me know if you have any issues. Back to the thesis! --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 18:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Sunday, September 8th
Hey folks. Just a quick update today. I pushed out an update that makes your categorization comments visible from the recent activity feed. This is something that people have been asking for, so I rushed to make sure you had it available today. Let me know what you think. --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 19:38, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thursday, September 19th
It's been a while since my last update. In the meantime, I've started a full-time gig with the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm just working on transitioning out of the GroupLens Research lab and into my new role at the WMF (which is an awful lot like my last role, except I have more time for things now). Over the past couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time writing a paper about Snuggle and getting it submitted to the biggest conference in my field, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. I've been working night and day on it (quite literally, if I wasn't sleeping or eating, I was writing). If you ping me via email, I'll be happy to get you a pre-print, but if you don't mind waiting a bit, I'll write up an open licensed version of the paper (that skips the academic jargon and gets to the point faster) to put on meta like I have with my other works, (e.g. meta:Research:The Rise and Decline). This paper represents the last component of my thesis which I plan to submit and be done with in couple of weeks. Once that's finished, I'm going to have substantially more time to devote to Snuggle development. --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 23:06, 19 September 2013 (UTC)