We have hit another milestone for Lift Wing. Our ORES model infrastructure hosts ~110 machine learning models and for the first time all of those models are also publicly available on Lift Wing through the API Gateway. We still need to work out the details of reasonable rate limiting and optimizing performance (maybe use the API Gateway as a simple cache?), but you can access all the models right now without any internal WMF permissions. We will have some tutorials up soon for the community and an ask for testers to help us out.
To be clear: if folks are currently using ORES, nothing will change with ORES for at least an entire year. We are working on a complete year-long migration plan for ORES users to Lift Wing that includes outreach, tutorials, and technical support, and that plan will only begin once Lift Wing is officially launched in a few months.
After talking to AI ethics experts, wiki community members, WMF staff members, and frankly anyone else who would talk to us, we are working on generating model cards for all models on Lift Wing. The goal is for the model cards to be the main point of contact for questions, discussions, and ultimate governance around machine learning models hosted by WMF. The model cards will be individual articles on Mediawiki.org to make it easy for the community to use the tools they are familiar with. We should have some things to show everyone very soon.
