Hello, Independent of my opinions on the validity of such a new Wikimedia project, there is currently an experiment of similar goals (and potentially structure) over at Twitter:
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-birdwatch-a-community-based-approach-to-misinformation.html Best, Verm On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:17 PM Leinonen Teemu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Has there been any discussion to start a new Wikimedia project focusing on > fact checking? > > Fact checking of course is in the core of editing Wikipedia, but I was > thinking about dedicated wiki-site that is dedicated for fact checking of > current events and news. Why this would be important? > > (1) There are many fact checking site in the English speaking world but > much less elsewhere. I am afraid that there is still greater need for fact > checking in the rest of the world. {{Citation needed}} > > (2) Our community is very well educated to do fact checking the wiki-way. > Again internationally, many of our community members are real fact > champions in their home countries and language groups. The practice of > Wikipedia could be applied to fact checking of fast moving current events > and news, too. > > (3) This could help us to get new young people to the movement, as editing > Wikipedias is not anymore so easy to start (because they are so good > already). > > (4) In many parts of the world, fact checking can also be dangerous. With > our anonymous and community driven practices and services we could protect > the fact checkers in many parts of the world. > > I am not sure what is the state of the Wikinews, but my impression is that > it is not really working. It was a good idea, but maybe wiki or wiki-way is > not the way to produce news. Also the beautiful idea of citizen journalism > has not really become reality. Maybe we could try if wiki and the wki-way > works better in fact checking. > > Peace, > > - Teemu > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >
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