The WikiCred Initiative

Pepe Flores and Noé Dominguez are developing a WordPress plugin for news publishers to make article edits public after publication as well as a wikibot which will notify Wikipedia editors whenever these articles, as cited source, change. You can read and comment on the grant application here.

The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language. This API is a useful tool for Scribe, but also outside the project can be widely used whenever credibility of references from a Wikipedia perspective needs to be referred to. Understanding the reusability of Wikipedia references can scale to a variety of other projects. You can read and comment on the grant application here.

Covid19Relay is a wiki created to document COVID-19. With WikiCred’s support, we are building an annotatable database of COVID-19 research as part of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19). This will allow Wikidata and the public to view, annotate, and query the CORD-19 dataset, showing connections and relationships between concepts. You can read and comment on the grant application here.

WikiUX takes a user-centred approach to address credibility. The project examines how end-users respond to different types of credibility signals on such as the structure of the page, tone of writing, and placement of citations within Wikipedia articles, as well as Wikipedia content that exists elsewhere on the web, such as within information cards on search and social platforms.

Mixing crowdsourcing, Wikidata’s rich catalogue of information, and a network that spans thousands of newsrooms, Source Scour will identify key areas where more information is needed and help journalists, researchers, and policymakers quickly spin up well-sourced, verified data sets with the answers the public needs. Source Scour builds on the existing crowdsourcing software created by MuckRock/DocumentCloud and used by thousands of newsrooms around the world.

Sourceror leverages Wikipedia’s credibility data to improve media literacy and combat disinformation on the web. The platform provides a browser extension that informs Internet users of the quality of the content they consume, and an API that enables developers to incorporate the Wikipedia community’s reliability evaluations into new technologies.

WikiWhatsThis will be a browser extension that adds context to online stories by allowing readers to highlight arbitrary chunks of text and request related Wikipedia articles. The extension will use text features combined with Wikipedia page quality signals to show the user the bigger picture around what they are reading.

The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual contest (campaign) where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images. The primary purpose is to improve the quality, reliability, and credibility of Wikipedia articles with photos

RefB is a bot that can automate adding references to Wikidata statements in the biomedical context based on PubMed Central database. This bot can be adapted later to support Wikidata statements in other contexts or to add references to Wikipedia articles when needed.

Iffy.news maintains a list of unreliable news/info sites, linked to site-ratings and fact-checks. This WikiCred project will add Wikipedia data to the index, contribute to related Wikipedia articles, and find indicators (via the Wikimedia API) to help programmatically identify fake news sites.

We support software and research projects that strengthen credibility on the internet through tools, data and improve the community's understanding of how we consume news and link to credible information on open-knowledge platforms. Submit your idea today!