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Ryan Hoover

Wikitribune - Evidence based journalism, from the founder of Wikipedia

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Wikitribune is a news platform that brings journalists and a community of volunteers together.

We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a real impact in both local and global events. And that stories can be easily verified and improved.

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Ryan Hoover
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Another great video by @lonelysandwich:
@jimmy_wales, founder of Wikipedia, and team are taking on fake, clickbait news with a hybrid wiki + journalism model. We need this today more than ever before. It reminds me a bit of @mg's Circa (RIP) but with more of a crowdsourced bent.
Mircea Goia
@rrhoover @lonelysandwich @jimmy_wales @mg Good luck! Fake news needs to disappear. And fast.
Jonathan Zinger
When the servers crash 20 minutes after being hunted... the power of Product Hunt!
Julien Ricard
@__zinger__ "the" server ;) poor lonely server
Tristan Isham
As a journalism student this is extremely exciting. No one in the news field really has any idea of how to fix things, but this feels like an attempt worth making. Other sites have been simply shifting little bits of the plans they've been using for years, or have been implementing interface hostile popups —which hasn't really hasn't proven itself as a solution. Even if WikiTribune doesn't go anywhere, or the community portion ends up being toxic, this is someone trying with a fresh approach in a field that desperately needs someone to.
Farooq (SF Ali) Zafar
This is gonna be such a thing. Can't wait to see where this goes from here. Best of luck @jimmy_wales!
Hernán Romero
Whoops! I think we pretty much hugged it to death!
Sabri Helal
Love the initiative. But there's some dangerous potential for manipulation as well. Articles on Wikipedia have often been changed by a select group of angry people after events ( eg: After football matches, referee pages being edited with not-too-kind facts ) Let's say an article criticizes a country or group, what's to prevent that country or group to get people to edit the article?
Daylen Sawchuk
@sabrisjourney Hi Sabri! Wikipedia adds page protection to articles which often face vandalism. This will add edits from unregistered users to a review quota which is reviewed by Wikipedians before going live to the public. In addition, bots help revert vandalism. Please note that Wikitribune is not associated with the Wikimedia Foundation. My understanding is that all edits to Wikitribune will be reviewed by in-house journalists. If you have any other questions regarding vandalism on Wikipedia, you can contact me via my talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us...).
Craig Keeling
@sabrisjourney The ability to correct would ultimately fix this, I think. It's one thing if someone reads something wrong, but another if they use that false info to try to "prove" their point to someone. They wouldn't be able to once corrected. That's probably as good as we can expect at this point.
Sabri Helal
@askdaylen It seems this was posted on hacker news and generated a lot of heated debate. [1] Note that they want to operate under British law, where libel law favors the subject. They have an indemnification clause, so their volunteers could be compelled to reimburse WikiTribune if WikiTribune loses a libel suit Is this true?
Peter Freeby
I really wish tech folks would stop trying to fix things they know nothing about. All real journalism is "Fact based" that's a total misnomer. Unless a source refuses to be identified, sources are listed in real journalism. This kind indiscriminate flag burning of institutions is what creates a market for fake news and dumbs down readers so they can't distinguish between real and fake. The list of advisors at the bottom of the site including Lily Cole and zero people who are actually practicing professional journalists highlights the kind of well intentioned ignorance of people like Pepsi's marketing team and Uber's #undelete geniuses.
Craig Keeling
@peterfreeby I see this working alongside journalism, not trying to creep in on it. If journalism alone could fix the problem, it already would have. Tech companies are forced to deal with this issue because they run the platforms.
Ross Mayfield
Awesome project by @jimmy_wales for evidence-based journalism, #wikitribune
Ankur Kumar
No Paypal integration? @jimmy_wales
Daylen Sawchuk
Jonathan James
Jamie Martin
Getting a 503 error when trying to subscribe
Abhilash Jain
This is what everybody needs at the moment.
Chris Laurent
This is epic @jimmy_wales
Joshua Dance
503 error trying to load the page.
Massimo Arrigoni
Really excited about this, @jimmy_wales We need it yesterday. Let's do it!!
Fraser Smith
Getting a 503 error too. Time to scale up the backend I think.
George Vou
At last, some evolution. Awesome project. Anyone still want Snopes to do this instead of Jimmy? Thought not.
Clement Chazarra
Very nice and necessary project, let's see how it goes ! If I can suggest something, it's great to have a new place to fact check news but to make it a really meaningful wide spread standard, a 'wikitribune verified' stamp needs to be created and assigned to articles over the web and linked back to wikitribune corresponding page. With popular and notorious wikipedia behind this project, there is a real opportunity to shift the news industry seperating fake from real.
Dmitry Ryzhkov
@jimmy_wales How are you going to determine "quality" of professional journalists?
Jeremy Daly
This looks amazing! The fact that there are no ads will help to generate a huge mobile user base, which will be a great incentive for authors looking for readership. I'm really looking forward to this. Good luck @jimmy_wales.
Aram Shahinyan
The new idea by Jimmy Wales is totally like Gandalf's appearance in the final part of The Return of The King (LOTR): JUST IN TIME.