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WikiCredCon 2025/Notes

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Problems Topics (please feel free to expand)

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Best Practices

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Type of Work Labels

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References

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Diverse Voices

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One approach is encourage use of news aggregators such as:

  • Ground News (https://ground.news/): Ground News is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias and break free from algorithms.

Journalist Expertise

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Questions:

  • Is there a way we can build trustworthiness in specific domains for journalists?

Methods

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Locally Sourced

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Actionable Feedback

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Resources

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Proposed strategies for proactive defenses

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How can the Wiki community defend against information disorder? In rough order of least drastic to most drastic:

Tools

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Existing Tools

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Source Evaluation

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Automated Fact Checking

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  • Factiverse: discount code available for wiki editors/conference attendees
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Tools that we would like to be created

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  • Information Nutrition Labels for Wikipedia Articles (from Sally Lehrman's session) : "This article was written by #xnumber people since #datecreated. It contains #ynumber words and #znumber references." Clicking on this could potentially go to a graph showing the concentration of edits over time, which could be an indicator of how recent/up to date the article is.


  • Newbie Indicator (flagging "student driver" editors): Frequently a new editor contributes with good intentions but does not adhere to Wiki best practices. Too often experienced editors will correct these errors in ways that do not encourage future editing - i.e.reverting/blanking/etc with either no explanation or hostility. If we flagged these new users we could try and soften these responses and build a more welcoming environment for new editors. Pseudo code would be:

User has less than 50 edits Attach words "I am a newbie editor. If I have erred in editing, please let me know what happened and how I should be editing. Thank you." to any edit published en:User:LoveElectronicLiterature

  • Baby Steps (flagging "newbie" editors): The edit article suggestions are too complex and are scaring newbies. I think they just flag anything, so we are throwing college level editing (citations, tone, scandals, conflicts) at kindegartners (new editors). Get a bot that just identifies sentence structure, misspellings, typos to flag "baby step" easy editing. en:User:LoveElectronicLiterature

Tools that will be available soon

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  • The tapestry project: tapestries.media -- Beta access to be available on March 2025, reach Bob Stein (futureofthebook(at)gmail(dot)com) for access rights

Organizations

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The Trust Project (https://thetrustproject.org/)

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... The Trust Project built the Trust Indicators by asking people what they value in the news – and what wins and loses their trust. Then we married their insights with bedrock journalism values to come up with eight core disclosures that every reader, listener and viewer deserves to know. ...


Index of Unreliable News Sources (https://iffy.news/)

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  • Fact-check Feed (articles by US fact-checkers, 2016–present)
  • Fact-check Search tool
  • News Netrics media site performance metrics
  • Unreliable News repo
  • CredScore (hypothesis)


Factiverse (https://www.factiverse.ai)

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Our mission is to empower knowledge professionals to verify information fast and help them protect their organizations from reputational, financial, and legal harm.

Try it out at https://editor.factiverse.ai/.

News Detective

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