WikiTribune

WikiTribune

The news is broken, but we're going to fix it.

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WikiTribune is a news wiki where volunteers write and curate articles about widely publicised news by proofreading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets.
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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
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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
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@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
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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.
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