User:Peteforsyth/draft

This is copied from the Google Doc used at the WikiConference NA session.

Expand Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage of newspapers and periodicals

News on Wiki is a campaign that did this last year, and could be "rebooted/ refreshed"

Group A Proposal: Newspapers on Wiki (phase 2)

What is the challenge?

People have difficulty distinguishing between real and fake news sources, even when they do a web search.

Solution: The purpose of our proposal:

To influence the Knowledge Panels on Google, Bing etc. (which are outside our direct control) by expanding Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage of newspapers and periodicals.

We would like to build on Newspapers on Wikipedia, a campaign that successfully did a "phase one" of this campaign previously

Who is our target audience for this proposal?:

Proposal is targeted to funders

First phase of project is targeted to connectors: folks who connect our project with content generators (existing Wikipedians, students, local volunteer groups, newspaper consortium of a state, etc.) These might be professors, staff of orgs with aligned goals, experienced Wikipedians with experience running edit-a-thons, or experience doing outreach to universities or other institutions...etc.

Project timeframe:

~3 month month window to plan and ~9 months to run (Jan 2020- December 2020)

Project location:

online and in person, with the focus being California to start and for testing. This phase would allow for potential model for future development to similar cases in other locales or event countries and languages down the road.

Resources needed:

Wikidata/pedia [also see above] experts, travel funding for in person meetings, UVA: back end support, support for algorithm development and data collection hours

Action needed:

Funding for the resources, recruitment and training volunteers (food during gatherings etc)

For reference, here is a previous funding proposal we put together based on Newspapers on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Newspapers/Knight_proposal_round_2

Solutions:

We would like to build on the Newspapers on Wikipedia campaign in a second phase.

This map is generated by the Wikidata work accomplished in Phase 1. Red dots = Wikidata item but NO WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE. Green = Wikipedia article has an infobox. Yellow = Wikipedia has no infobox.

Contacts:

Primary: Pete Forsyth | User:Peteforsyth | http://wikistrategies.net/contact

Sherry Antoine

Wikidata projects

Some TABernacle links for entering information with Wikidata at the Science Source project: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ScienceSource_project/Tabernacle Use the Wikidata query here.

Engaging various stakeholder groups

• Wikimedians already engaged in similar work
• Non Wikimedian netizens looking for a worthy project and to learn new skills
• University teachers and staff
• News and affinity organizations interested in surfacing quality news content and organizations

Primary interventions

• Weekly web conferences for project participants
• Email list and updates
• Badges
• Several kinds of projects for different audiences (data focused, write or update a WP article, add an image...)
• Refresh WikiProject Newspapers
• Advocacy to news organizations (generating good source material and possibly coverage of project)
  • 2-3 invitation-based web conferences for news organizations and professional societies

Defining success

• 50 articles about U.S. newspapers (either based in Washington State or black-owned) brought up to the following standard (either new articles, or existing articles that were not at this standard):
  • Have an infobox
  • Have a Wikidata item including name, place of publication, based-in-US, and type=newspaper

• 25 articles about existing U.S. newspapers have website added to Wikidata and/or Wikipedia
• 25 articles about existing U.S. newspapers have founding and/or ceased-publication date added to Wikidata and/or Wikipedia
• One article covering journalism in Washington
• Improvement (to be defined) to article about black-owned newspapers

Focus on Washington State

Manageable size; goal of 25 articles either new, or improved to the standard of [has infobox and complete Wikidata item]

Focus on black-owned newspapers

Goal of 25 articles either new, or improved to the standard of [has infobox and complete Wikidata item]

This scan from Penn's book is much higher quality than an image previously used to illustrate multiple articles on five language editions of Wikipedia, as well as the Wikidata item.

Kate D. Chapman, example of one of the many woodcuts in Penn's book

Chart from Penn book

Visualization based on Penn's data

The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously-published African-American newspaper in the United States. It mentions its founder, Christopher J. Perry; but as of this writing, there is no separate bio of Perry on Wikipedia, and the high quality illustration of Perry in Penn's book is not to be found on Wikipedia.