[open-economics] open-economics Digest, Vol 44, Issue 8

[Samira Niknami]

Hi,

I'd like to get involved in this project.

On Sunday, 8 February 2015, <open-economics-request at lists.okfn.org> wrote:

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>    1. [Project-discussion] Wiki Rating (Gustavo Silva)
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> Hi all,
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> I have been in touch with Marc, from Wiki Rating
> <http://www.wikirating.org/> project. Since we are looking for some
> projects to get the work group started again, I have proposed a few topics
> and Marc found an interesting opportunity to let us know about Wiki Rating.
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> *?"Wikirating is a worldwide independent, transparent and collaborative
> > organization for credit ratings. It offers an open, editable centralized
> > place for all credit rating related topics, and credit ratings for
> > countries, corporations and other financial products. Wikirating unites
> > rating experts, economists and normal people, similar to Wikipedia, but
> > with a stronger and stricter peer review concept."*
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> It is a very interesting topic of research and it is something I believe we
> can make an impact on Economics, by changing the rating standards
> worldwide. This project can close the gap between academics, researchers,
> passionates and investors.
> Marc has discussed with Dorian Crede, the founder of Wiki Rating, about the
> possibility of getting OE involved. Dorian has kindly replied with some
> suggestions for us to get involved. These are not the only ways of getting
> involved, but they are for an initial phase, since we are still trying to
> get the group active again.
>
> Their proposal:
> ?"?
> We also agree that there should be a relatively narrow focus at first and
> would like to suggest sovereign ratings as a starting point.  Would you
> like to take over the sovereign rating methodology (SWI)?  We believe it
> needs two types of improvements:  (1) more frequent updates through the use
> of crowdsourcing and automated data loading and (2) model recalibration
> (changing factor weighting and possibly the factors themselves to derive
> index implied ratings that are more intuitive and credible.
> ?"
>
> What do you guys think?
> I will supervise this project, even though I can't contribute alone to it.
> I'm particularly interested in proposal #2, but I will get means to fulfil
> #1. Nevertheless, I believe this is a team job that requires tones of
> research and contributions for a lot of areas.
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> Please let us know your interest to get involved in this project. I will
> list the people interested in doing so. I have one week to let Wiki Rating
> know if OE can, or cannot, contribute to the project.
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> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
> Gustavo
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