2019/Reliability brainstorming

• More liasing between google and volunteers, as opposed to staff
• Wikipedia reliability resp. BLP +
• Pre-notification from google, etc. if they are doing anything (e.g. google doodle) that will spike pageviews
• Track wikipedia biographies w/ poor sourcing. poor ratio of sources to word count means poor credibility
• How do we differentiate between reliability and systemic gatekeeping? (Create a standard?) +++
• Use perennial sources list to create a rubric for evaluating sources +
• Has anyone looked at/found studies on how reliability/credibility was handled historically for "new" media (printing press, radio, TV, etc) ++
• Better counter-vandalism tools for wikidata! +
• How can news sources be identified as reliable? 2 components: (a) info presented by the source, and (b) info presented by critical independent sources +
• Reliability needs to be built into WikiData, not retrofitted later. What needs to be built in to support reliability metrics and out-of-date metrics on each WikiData item? ++
• People not knowing they are using unreliable sources!
• How can we show (in a prominent space) editors' affiliations to make their edits more transparent?
• How do we build and train teams to do quality improvement, including citations

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• How to encourage publishers to include links & sources in their articles +++
• Structured data for articles (like structured data for commons). Attach wikidata items to news stories ++
• What can Wikidata people learn from the chaotic situation that has developed in wikimedia commons?
• How can Wikipedians work with the subjects of their articles to find more reliable and accurate sources and maintain compliance with COI and NPOV? +
• Harmonizing reliability standards over several projects (WikiData, Wikipedia, etc)
• How to help editors evaluate reliability of more local news sources (e.g. city newspapers) +++
• Wikidata is very vulernable to trolls/bots, with little monitoring of quality. What can be done to make it easier for editors to detect and discourage bad data and bad behavior? +
• Wikidata items and text summaries for major daily news events.
• What can we do about the tension between profit motive for platforms and the fact that false or unreliable info can be very profitable? ++
• News on Wiki (NoW) - build on 2018 NoW campaign. Improve wikipedia and wikidata coverage of news sources +++
• Discussion about DOIs for out-of-copyright meterial - can more resourced orgs help the wiki/library world? +
• Should be able to assign DOIs through WM commons! Let's do it. Emjackson42 +
• Expand wikidata entries for newspapers. (a) has correction policy (b) has research team ++++++++
• WP service to other platforms. Offer easy lists of sources that meet various reliability standards and predictors:
  1. they hired real journalists
  2. they have omudsman/public editor/corections
  3. they have stated ethics/mission
  4. they have criteria for advertisers
  5. they got awards for journalism
  6. etc etc

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• How to help recognize sources from global south?
• How to get content/news producers to adopt practices around providing more metadata/transparency? +++
• Can we make Wikipedia more journalist friendly (permalink usage?) +
• Create specific settings to help journalists? +
• How to cite online news articles that may change several times? +
• How cn we add multiple sources per fact on Wikipedia? +++
• How do we bridge language gaps in sourcing?
• Wikibase for Wikicite +
• How might Wikidata help model/track the reliability of particular journalists? ++++
• "copy/paste" factor can we generate a tool that calculates how much of a news article is original reporting vs how much is secondary? ++
• Adopt ACRL (Association of college & research libraries) information literacy framework, and use it to develop a heuristic for the evaluation of credibility that content producers could use +
• How to deal with the corpus of print resources from 1920s - on words subject to copyright protection and thus content accessibility issues for wikipedia editors +
• How to share news event cluster IDs? +
• How to help recognize source from minority language? +