Browsing Wikispore for the first time, I was interested that an Art
Spore was highlighted on the front page. However it is no more than a
brief propositional description.
Trying to give some thought to what might be the possibilities of this
project, I placed some scoping thoughts on the Talk page:
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Art_Spore
I am not sure how active this mailing list is, but, either here or on
that Talk page, I would be interested to find whether my scoping
thoughts are consistent with what is envisaged for that Spore, whether
people have other artefacts which might help build towards some content
there, etc.
Sounds like a great Page/Data/Media interplay, of interest to Wikispore if
there's any need for customization. SJ
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:37 PM Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
> A “Wikifacts” sister project is a great idea. “Wikifacts” seems distinct
> from both Wikinews and Wikidata. With some schemas for facts, defining
> their structure and interrelations, one could, however, utilize Wikidata as
> a backend.
>
>
>
> Brainstorming, while I’m sure that those in these mailing lists are more
> familiar with what’s possible with wiki templates, with a “Wikifacts”
> sister project, one could envision a wiki template for explicit facts.
> Perhaps such a wiki template could resemble:
>
>
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> {{fact|User content goes here.}}
>
>
>
> or
>
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> {{fact|F12345678|User content goes here.}}
>
>
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> With such a wiki template, editors could add explicit facts to Wikinews
> and Wikipedia articles.
>
>
>
> End-users could hover over explicit facts in Wikinews or Wikipedia
> articles to view information (e.g. the number of informational messages,
> warnings, or errors) about the facts in tooltips and could click on a fact
> – or on a superscript hyperlink symbol – to navigate to the fact’s
> “Wikifacts” article.
>
>
>
> The use of explicit facts in Wikinews or Wikipedia articles could,
> potentially, create new “Wikifacts” articles or synchronize with existing
> “Wikifacts” articles. Whenever a fact were updated or annotated via the
> “Wikifacts” project website, the editors of any dependent Wikinews or
> Wikipedia articles could receive emails, resembling how they can opt to
> watch articles for edits. Wikinews and Wikipedia editors could receive
> emails so as to be able to revisit an article if or when any facts upon
> which the article depends change.
>
>
>
> A “Wikifacts” project could also serve as a fact-checking resource for a
> set of end-users broader than the editors of Wikinews and Wikipedia
> articles. Through an API, end-users could perform real-time fact checking
> via “Wikifacts” while authoring or reviewing documents.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> P.S.: Thank you for the information about the Wikipragmatica proposal.
>
>
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> *From: *Douglas Clark <clarkdd(a)gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:50 PM
> *To: *Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Wikimedia-l] Idea of a new project: Wikifacts ?
>
>
>
> I proposed a project, WikiPragmatica
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipragmatica>, that can support fake
> news detection. The retained context of the paraphrase graph can identify
> fake news patterns similar to what MIT does with their detector.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 12:42 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
> galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does Wikinews cover this aspect?
>
> *From:* Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf
> of Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 4, 2021 8:20 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Cc:* Chris Gates <vermont(a)vtwp.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-l] Idea of a new project: Wikifacts ?
>
>
>
> 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:
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>
>
> https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-birdwatch-a-…
>
>
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>
>
> Best,
>
> Verm
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:17 PM Leinonen Teemu <teemu.leinonen(a)aalto.fi>
> 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
>
>
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