WikiBunk is a crowd-sourced fact-check for rumors, hoaxes, political or corporate claims, viral videos, and pop-culture memes that are currently subject to little or no scrutiny.

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.
WikiBunk
Status of the proposal
Statusrejected
Reasonno interest. Pecopteris (talk) 06:50, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Technical requirements

Deficiency of Snopes.com

Currently the default lookup tool for conspiracy theories, hoaxes, urban legends, and old wives' tales is Snopes.com. It serves a useful purpose; it just does a poor job of it. It has uncorrected technical problems dating back to the 1990s such as outdated pop-up ads, right-click blocking, and ancient design. It also succumbs to perils common to any site with centralized, amateur content curation: limits to breadth of information, preachiness and lack of NPOV, and inability to respond to the changing nature of rumors and hoaxes.

Purpose of WikiBunk

On the internet proliferates a wealth of garbage. Conspiracies, fake viral videos, and misleading viral memes run rampant. WikiBunk would serve as a community-run verification and debunking resource providing links to sources that can prove or disprove myths and hoaxes and also backstory information where available.

Proposed by

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User:Qoncept

Alternative names

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WikiCheck

WikiRumor

WikiFact

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Domain names

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Demos

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People interested

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  1. KenjiCrosland (talk)

Kenji Crosland