Submissions/10 Evil Things- Features Engineering @ Wikimedia

After careful consideration, the programme committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2013 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August.

Submission no.
5047
Subject no.
T1
Title of the submission

10 Evil Things- Features Engineering at Wikimedia

Type of submission

presentation

Author of the submission

Terry Chay

Country of origin

USA

Affiliation

Wikimedia Foudnation

E-mail address

tchay@wikimedia.org

Username

Tychay

Personal homepage or blog

[terrychay.com]

Abstract

A framework for understanding what, how, and why Features engineering is done at the Wikimedia Foundation

Detailed proposal

The vision of the Wikimedia Foundation is to "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." And while Wikipedia has grown to a half billion readers and the fifth largest website on the internet, the size of the other half of that equation: the purpose-driven social network that is building the "sum of all knowledge" is small in todays web and getting smaller.

The goal of Features Engineering is to reverse that editor trend. This talk is about 10 concepts in the modern web (such as web affordances, habit loops, viral growth, and gameification) and how they relate to building features on Wikipedia that try to reverse the decline.

Track

Technology and Infrastructure

Length of presentation/talk
25 minutes
Language of presentation/talk

English

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

[5 minute "lightning" version"] (actual version will be greatly expanded)

Special requests

Can be shortened if necessary or moved to another track.


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