2019/Grants/Iffy.news
Title:
Iffy.news
Name:
Barrett Golding
Wikimedia username:
hearvox
E-mail address:
bg@hearingvoices.com
Resume:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrett-golding/ https://github.com/hearvox https://profiles.wordpress.org/hearvox/ https://hearingvoices.com/best-of-bg/
Geographical impact:
USA
Type of project:
Research + Output
What is your idea?
Use Wikipedia pages for publications as an indicator for news site reliability.
Why is it important?
An easy way to determine the credibility of a media source.
Is your project already in progress?
Yes: https://iffy.news
How is it relevant to credibility and Wikipedia? (max 500 words)
Core to credibility and a new way to use Wikipedia API.
What is the ultimate impact of this project?
Can be used by researchers, advertisers, and media consumers to evaluate source reliabiiity.
Could it scale?
It doesn't need to.
Why are you the people to do it?
Because it needs to be done and no one is doing it.
What is the impact of your idea on diversity and inclusiveness of the Wikimedia movement?
None that I can think of.
What are the challenges associated with this project and how you will overcome them?
Manual inspection of results will slow the process down.
How much money are you requesting?
1000
How will you spend the money?
Developing the API script to search for webpages. Adding info to associated Wikipedia Pages.
How long will your project take?
1 month
Have you worked on projects for previous grants before?
Yes, many. NEA and CPB grants: https://hearingvoices.com/ U of MO J-School grant: https://news.pubmedia.us/ United States Artists fellow: https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/barrett-golding/ Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow: https://www.rjionline.org/stories/series/storytelling-tools