Anti-Disinformation Repository

Hello and welcome to the anti-disinformation initiatives and tools repository!

Wikimedia communities have been working for years to promote trustworthy information and to act against disinformation. This work is multifaceted and takes many shapes: some communities develop lists of reliable or unreliable sources; others organized media literacy trainings; some create bots or machine learning software to automatically detect harassment, use of bad sources, or article quality; and, other volunteers work collectively to develop WikiProjects that ensure accurate information was shared on complex topics such as COVID-19 or climate change.

There is a vast number of activities, projects, and expertise related to countering disinformation within the Wikimedia communities. However, these projects deserve to be more widely known and publicized across the communities themselves and beyond them.

The Global Advocacy team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched a public mapping to collect anti-disinformation initiatives and tools developed at the local level across Wikimedia projects and create a repository of projects—confident that volunteers and affiliates can use it to better understand the movement's resources against disinformation, easily access and implement these to strengthen their own work addressing this challenge, and get ideas on how to continue curbing false and misleading information worldwide.

We know that this is only a partial list of the fantastic work and efforts that the Wikimedia communities as well as external organizations contribute to the encyclopedic work done on Wikipedia and the other projects. For that reason, please let us know what we missed and also what you think by commenting and discussing on the Talk page! You can also reach out to the Foundation’s Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead, Costanza Sciubba Caniglia (csciubbacaniglia@wikimedia.org), and/or the Global Advocacy team (globaladvocacy@wikimedia.org). Together we can continue to make sure that Wikimedia acts as an antidote to disinformation!

If you have additional resources you would like to include, please send them to us before modifying this page directly. We are tracking existing resources and working on additional tools, and want to make sure that we include all the projects.

Lastly, if you want to find out more information about this repository, please read our Diff blog post.

Anti-Disinformation Repository (Sortable Table)

Project	Description	Region	Type	Group	Year	Wikimedia project
¿Cómo funciona Wikipedia? 10 datos fundamentales para entenderla y sus principales desafíos / How does Wikipedia work? 10 fundamental facts to understand it and its main challenges	Document with main points about how Wikipedia works, challenges of the platform and how information is built collaboratively.	Global	Document	Wikimedia Argentina	2022	Wikipedia
¡Que no te pille la tecnología! Personas Mayores Informadas / Don't let technology catch you! Senior Citizens Informed	This video was created as part of a campaign to empower the senior population to avoid disinformation when using the internet. Participants were volunteer attendees of the workshop "Senior people and digital environments: tools for integration", organized by Wikimedia Chile, Google Chile, and the Quilicura municipality in Santiago, who shared their own experiences on how they use online information.	Latin America & Caribbean	Video	Wikimedia Chile	2022	N/A
1 Lib 1 Ref (#1Lib1Ref)	Twice per year, #1Lib1Ref—an abbreviation for “one librarian, one reference”—calls on librarians around the world, and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge, to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia. By increasing the use of reliable sources, the project improves the accuracy of the information.	Global	Edit-a-thon	Wikimedia Foundation	2016 (according to Talk page)	Wikipedia
ARTT (Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust)	Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, the ARTT project aims to support trust-building online conversations. The main tool of the project, the ARTT Guide, is a web-based software assistant that provides a framework of possible responses for everyday conversations around tricky topics. By bringing together insights about how to engage in positive exchanges around credible information, and by providing guidance, encouragement, and inspiration, the ARTT Guide will help our users answer the question: “What do I say (and how do I say it)?”	North America	Tool	National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, Hacks/Hackers, and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington. For more information, please read footnote [1].	2021	N/A
Ciclo de Charlas "Diálogos Urgentes" / "Urgent Dialogues" Talk Series	Webinar about disinformation, Wikimedia projects, and collaborative coverage from a human rights perspective.	Global	Podcast	Wikimedia Argentina	2020	Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Citation Hunt	Citation Hunt is a tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. It is available in several languages and allows browsing snippets either randomly or by their article's categories in a quick and fun way.	N/A	Tool	N/A	2017	Wikipedia
Cite Unseen	Cite Unseen is a user script that adds categorical icons to Wikipedia citations, such as whether the citation counts as news, opinion, blog, state-run media, a published book, among others. These categorical icons provide readers and editors with a quick initial evaluation of citations at a glance. This helps guide users on the nature and reliability of sources, and to help identify sources that may potentially be problematic or should be used with caution.	North America	Tool	N/A	2019	Wikipedia
CiteWatch	This is a bot that compiles lists of unreliable sources which are cited by Wikipedians via a specific citation template, based on several lists of unreliable or questionable publications (such as those compiled by Jeffrey Beall, the University Grants Commission, Quackwatch, or Wikipedia editors.	N/A	Tool	N/A	2018	Wikipedia
Completude, consistência e correção em bases de dados digitais sobre mortos e desaparecidos políticos na ditadura civil-militar brasileira / Completeness, consistency, and correction in digital databases about victims and political desaparecidos during the Brazilian civic-military dictatorship	This project is a research focused on improving content on those who were killed or disappeared during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). In the context in which the federal government was shutting down websites with official content on human rights violations during the military regime in Brazil, Wiki Movimento Brasil and partners focused on bringing all this information into Wikidata and Wikipedia.	Latin America & Caribbean	Research	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2021	Wikidata / Wikipedia
Covid-19 et désinformacion / COVID-19 and disinformation	This is a research project on COVID-19 disinformation on Wikipedia.	Northern & Western Europe	Research	Wikimedia France	2020	Wikipedia
Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment	This report evaluates a case of long-term systemic disinformation and project capture on the Croatian-language Wikipedia. The report was produced by an external expert, who conducted a thorough analysis of the content and community dynamics on the Croatian language Wikipedia. It revealed a widespread pattern of manipulative behavior and abuse of power by an ideologically aligned group of admins and volunteer editors. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Wikimedia Foundation.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Research	Wikimedia Foundation	2021	Wikipedia
CTRL-F	Wikimedia Chile, Together with CIVIX, CIPER Chile Journalistic Research Center, and Fast Check organizes the CTRL-F program. A training program for students to teach them verification and media literacy techniques.	Latin America & Caribbean	Training	Wikimedia Chile	2023	N/A
Decálogos para la lucha contra la desinformación en Wikipedia / Decalogues for the fight against disinformation on Wikipedia	This is a training on misinformation and access to knowledge, in collaboration with Medialab-Prado. The event touched upon knowledge and strategies to fight disinformation on Wikipedia. It was directed to journalists, people who are dedicated to scientific research, activists, and Wikimedians.	Northern & Western Europe	Training	Wikimedia España	2020	Wikipedia
Disinfo 101	An anti-disinformation training resource created by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Trust and Safety Disinformation team. It provides a basic introduction to terminology associated with disinformation; teaches you how disinformation typically functions within the Wiki ecosystem; and, provides a basic toolkit for dealing with disinformation on Wikimedia projects.	Global	Training	Wikimedia Foundation	2023	All projects
Flagged_Revisions	FlaggedRevs (Flagged Revisions) is an extension of MediaWiki software that allows one to flag versions of articles and thus give additional information about quality. This comes with the possibility of changing what an unregistered user sees by default. The technical description can be found at mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs. This makes it easier to increase the article quality and trustworthiness.	N/A	Tool	N/A	2014/2017 (A 2017 moratorium established that no new Wikis can be added but those that were already active can maintain it)	MediaWiki
HRVVMC Wikipedia Edit-a-thons	The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission (HRVVMC) is a government agency tasked with documenting the human rights violations that occurred during the dictator’s regime and to establish a museum and a roll of victims. WikiSocPH worked with HRVVMC to help design training modules to train volunteers on how to edit Wikipedia articles related to the Marcos family and their regime. The Commission has conducted Wikipedia edit-a-thons to commemorate the initial declaration of martial law in 1972 and the Revolution in 1986 that ended the dictatorship.	East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific	Edit-a-thon	WikiSocPH	2020-2022	Wikipedia
I Encuentro sobre lucha contra la desinformación en Wikipedia / 1st Meeting on the struggle against disinformation on Wikipedia	This is a roundatble discussion with experts on the topic of disinformation on Wikipedia, organized by Wikimedia España in 2020.	Northern & Western Europe	Event	Wikimedia España	2020	Wikipedia
International Science Council and Wikimedia Foundation webinar series: Exploring the opportunities and challenges of Wikipedia for science	The Wikimedia Foundation organized a series of webinars in collaboration with the International Science Council, in order to explain the Wikimedia model and how it contributes to creating trustworthy information. The first webinar, Webinar 1: Managing Knowledge Integrity on Information Platforms was on March 16, 2023 and discussed how Wikipedia is a model to model for safeguard the provenance of scientific information online. Speakers were Diego Sáez Trumper (Wikimedia Foundation), Connie Moon Sheat (Hacks/Hackers), and Amalia Toledo (Wikimedia Foundation). The second webinar, Webinar 2: Building Special Projects on Wikipedia: The Covid Case Study, was on March 30, 2023 and showcased the work of the community, and in particular on the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker was Netha Hussain, a volunteer who created the WikiProject COVID-19.	Northern & Western Europe	Event	Wikimedia Foundation	2023
Introdução ao Jornalismo Científico / Introduction to Scientific Journalism	This project relied on a partnership with a research lab, NeuroMat, and is a resource for young professionals to specialize in science journalism. Modules 3 and 6 are focused on how misinformation is spread in Brazil.	Latin America & Caribbean	Training	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2017	Wikiversity
Knowledge integrity, Wikimedia Research	The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team published a set of white papers that outline plans and priorities for the next 5 years. These white papers, which were developed collaboratively by all members of the team, reflect our thinking about the kind of research necessary to further the 2030 Wikimedia Strategic Direction of Knowledge Equity and Knowledge as a Service.	Global	Research	Wikimedia Foundation	2019-	N/A
Laboratorio Wikimedia de verificación de datos / Wikimedia workshop on data verification	This is a training called Wikimedia fact-checking lab: learning and collaboration around Wikimedia projects whose goal is to investigate information and data verification to defend Wikipedia from misinformation.	Northern & Western Europe	Training	Wikimedia España	2021	Wikipedia
Machine Learning models, Wikimedia Research	The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team has built machine learning models to assist patrollers in detecting revisions that might be reverted, independently of whether they were made in good faith or with the intention of creating damage. Previous models were language-specific solutions (e.g., ORES), which are difficult to escalate and maintain, and are just available in certain languages. In contrast, this new generation of machine learning models are based on language-agnostic features, making it possible to use them for any existing Wikipedia, and for new language projects that can appear in the future.	Global	Tool	Wikimedia Foundation	2022	Wikipedia
masz - Media Wiki	masz (the z is silent) is a tool that helps Checkusers (a small group of WP users who work on spotting fake accounts) see similarity of style and language in talk pages to find users with multiple accounts.	N/A	Tool	Wikimedia Foundation	2021	Wikipedia / Wikidata / Wikinews
Moderator Tools	The Moderator Tools team is a Wikimedia Foundation product team working on content moderation tool needs.	N/A	Tool	Wikimedia Foundation	2021-	Wikipedia
New Page Patrol Source Guide	This page centralizes information about reliable sources for new page reviewers to use when they review new articles. It is intended as a supplement to the reliable sources noticeboard and List of Perennial Sources, to help page reviewers unfamiliar with a given subject assess notability and neutrality of an article.	N/A	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2019	Wikipedia
Observatoire de sources / Sources observatory	This is a list of reliable and unreliable sources to use on French Wikipedia.	Northern & Western Europe	Wikipedia Page	Wikimedia France	2020	Wikipedia
Open the Knowledge Journalism Award	Disinformation on Wikimedia projects often appears in areas in which there are content voids. For this reason, working on filling knowledge gaps is one way Wikimedia can work to increase trustworthy information on the projects. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, which recognizes the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The award is focused on articles by African journalists increasing knowledge about the African continent.	Middle East & North Africa / Sub-Saharan Africa	Award	Wikimedia Foundation	2023	N/A
ORES	ORES is a web service and API that provides machine learning as a service for Wikimedia projects maintained by the Machine Learning team. The system is designed to help automate critical wiki-work—for example, vandalism detection and removal.	Global	Tool	Wikimedia Foundation	2016	All projects
Project: Patrolling/Monitoring vandalism (Wikipedia Ukrainian)	This project is no longer active. It was a WikiProject to check all edits that were made by anonymous users. It helped prevent vandalism from remaining in articles for a long time. The project kept a patrol log of anonymous edits according to this filter. The project was supported by Wikimedia Ukraine, but not maintained by Wikimedia Ukraine. It was maintained by individual dedicated editors.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Wikipedia Project	Wikimedia Ukraine	2020 (archived)	Wikipedia
Project:Sources	This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. The volunteers working on this project ensure that articles are supported by reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources. This project works to achieve the goals of the verifiability and no original research policies. For more information about the reliability of sources at Wikipedia, please visit our FAQ.	Northern & Western Europe	Wikipedia Project	Wikimedia France	2011	Wikipedia
PSS 9	PSS 9 is an intelligent software agent-administrator (a bot with administrative rights) on the Bulgarian Wikipedia, which employs artificial intelligence to identify and actively counter vandalism, including the spread of mis- and disinformation.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Tool	N/A	2017	Wikipedia
Reading Wikipedia in the classroom	Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is Wikimedia Foundation’s teacher training program. By leveraging Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool, it helps educators and students develop vital media and information literacy skills for the 21st century.	Global	Training	Wikimedia Foundation	2021	Wikipedia
Reliable sources noticeboard	This is a noticeboard in which the community can discuss reliable sources. Guidelines for the use of reliable sources on En.WP can be found at Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources.	Global	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2007	Wikipedia
Special:AbuseFilter891	This is a filter that detects predatory publishers and flags them for editors.	North America	Tool	N/A	2017	Wikipedia
Template CiteQ	This template returns a formatted citation from statements stored on a Wikidata item (referred to by its Q identifier or QID) describing a citable source such as a scholarly article. This project allows easy identification of citations to papers which have been redacted or replaced.	N/A	Tool	N/A	2017	Wikipedia
Unreliable guidelines - Reliable sources and marginalized communities in French, English, and Spanish Wikipedias	This is a report of the research project Reading Together: Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities on reliable sources and marginalized communities on Wikipedia.	North America / Latin America & Caribbean	Research	Art+Feminism, WikiCred	2021	Wikipedia
Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD)	The Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD) is a user script that identifies various unreliable and potentially unreliable sources.	North America	Tool	N/A	2020	Wikipedia
User:JL-Bot/DOI	DOIs are unique identifiers for academic articles. This bot checks those DOIs that are issued by Crossref and can show who is the person associated with the DOI.	North America	Tool	N/A	2007	Wikipedia
Vanity and Predatory Publishing	This page describes vanity and predatory publishers, with links to lists of both and an explanation of why they might be dangerous for Wikipedia articles. Vanity publishers refer to publishing houses where anyone can pay to have a book published. In contrast, predatory publishers refer to an exploitative academic publishing business model that charges publication fees without checking articles' quality or providing editorial services.	N/A	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2017	Wikipedia
Verificaton en Wikipedia / Verific-a-thon on Wikipedia	This is a training event that promotes a fact-checking culture among the Wikipedian community, the I Wikipedia Verific-a-thon. It is a meeting focused on the verification of knowledge related to health issues and, specifically, to the information on COVID-19 found in the free encyclopedia.	Northern & Western Europe	Event	Wikimedia España	2021	Wikipedia
WikiCon Brazil	The theme of the 2022 WikiCon Brazil was disinformation. This theme was developed through trainings, events, and presentations.	Latin America & Caribbean	Event	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2022	All projects
Wikidata Lab XIV, Modelagem com estruturação intencional / Wikidata Lab XIV, Modeling with intentional structuring	This was a training on how to share resources and capabilities for the integration of Wikidata with other Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia.	Latin America & Caribbean	Training	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2019	Wikidata / Wikipedia
WikiFactCheckers training	This WikiCred project trains media professionals how to use Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiCommons.	Sub-Saharan Africa	Training	WikiCred, Code for Africa	2023	Wikipedia / Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia and Democracy – The impact of Wikimedia UK's information literacy work on citizen engagement	This is a comprehensive analysis, by Wikimedia UK, of its programs and their impact. In Particular, they analyze the impact of their information literacy work, and how the Wikimedia movement contributes to creating a healthier information environment and stronger democracy.	Northern & Western Europe	Research	Wikimedia UK	2021	All projects
Wikimedia en Chine / Wikimedia in China	This is a translation and comment for the French community of a memo released by the Wikimedia Foundation relative to an incident in the Chinese community.	Northern & Western Europe	Research	Wikimedia France	2020	Wikipedia
Wikimedia in Education	This is a booklet created by Wikimedia UK in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh about a series of case studies illustrating how to use Wikipedia as a tool for education and support learners to understand, navigate and critically evaluate information as well as develop an appreciation for the role and importance of open education.	Northern & Western Europe	Research / Training	Wikimedia UK	2020	Wikidata / Wikipedia
Wikipédia contra a ignorância racional / Wikipedia against rational ignorance	This is a research paper on Wikipedia against "rational ignorance". João Alexandre Peschanski led this project as an educator before becoming Executive Director of Wiki Movement Brazil User Group (Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil). It is framed around a specific behavioral dimension of misinformation in electoral politics. A summary is available on this Wikimedia blog post with a link to a more substantial research paper. It has evolved as a Wikidata-integrated system for improving content on elections in Brazil.	Latin America & Caribbean	Research	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2016	Wikipedia
Wikipedia Huggle	Huggle is a browser intended for dealing with vandalism and other unconstructive edits on Wikimedia projects. Huggle can load and review edits made to Wikipedia in real time, it also helps users identify unconstructive edits and allows them to be reverted quickly.	N/A	Tool	N/A	2008	All projects
Wikipedia Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory, Wikimedia Research	Monitoring system that allows exploring data and metrics on knowledge integrity risks to compare Wikipedia language editions. Knowledge integrity risks are captured through the volume of high-risk revisions, identified with the language-agnostic revert risk machine learning (ML) model, and their revert ratios over time and across pages.	Global	Research	Wikimedia Foundation	2021-	N/A
Wikipedia SWASTHA	Wikipedia SWASTHA is an innovative, collaborative platform uniting multilingual editors from various Wikipedia communities to exchange best practices and jointly edit healthcare pages. Collaborating with diverse government agencies, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, SWASTHA focuses on enhancing healthcare awareness in local communities by providing accessible, multilingual health information on Wikipedia. Recognized by prominent media outlets for its impactful work, SWASTHA highlights the ethical dissemination of medical information in local languages to empower individuals with limited access to healthcare resources. We invite organizations to join our mission and harness the power of Wikipedia to create a lasting, positive change in global healthcare.	East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific	Wikipedia Project	N/A	2020	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Deprecated sources	This is a list of sources that are "deprecated," whose use on Wikipedia is discouraged because they "fail the reliable sources guidelines in nearly all circumstances."	N/A	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2018	Wikipedia
Wikipédia:Fontes confiáveis/Central de confiabilidade / Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Trust Center	This is a page created to centralize discussions related to the sources used in articles which lists sources editors should avoid using in the project, many of which have been associated with disinformation campaigns. It is similar to lists of unreliable sources that exist for other language Wikipedias.	Latin America & Caribbean	Wikipedia Page	Wiki Movimento Brasil	2022	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Nierzetelne źródła / Wikipedia:Not reliable sources	This is an editorial recommendation including a list of unreliable sources that should not be used by Polish Wikipedia editors, with an explanation of how these are selected and why.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2022	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources	This is a non-exhaustive list of sources whose reliability and use on Wikipedia are frequently discussed. This list summarizes prior consensus and consolidates links to the most in-depth and recent discussions from the reliable sources noticeboard and elsewhere on Wikipedia.	N/A	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2018	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Trovärdiga källor / Wikipedia:Credible sources	This is an essay explaining how to find and use credible sources in general and in particular in the Swedish language. Many Swedish-speaking Wikipedians have been involved in creating and maintaining this resource.	Northern & Western Europe	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2008	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Reliable sources	Launched in April 2022 as a NewsQ project, Wikipedia “Reliable Sources” seeks to support Wikipedians who write articles on vaccines and want to cite reliable sources of vaccine information. NewsQ is collaborating with experienced Wikipedia editors to gather data on source quality and refine a list of reputable sources of vaccine information throughout 2023. NewsQ is a Hacks/Hackers initiative that has sought to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news online.	N/A	Wikipedia Page	News Quality Initiative (NewsQ), Hacks/Hackers, and Knowledge Futures Group. For more information, read footnote [2].	2022	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change	WikiProject Climate change is a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to climate change. The WikiProject covers topics related to the causes of climatic change, the effects of climate change, and how society responds in terms of adaptation, mitigation and social and political change.	Global	Wikipedia Page	N/A	2010	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/SureWeCan COVID19 Task Force	This task force project focuses on Wikipedia editing and writing to share simple, factual information on the coronavirus pandemic in New York City with the goal of explaining the seriousness of the pandemic.	North America	Wikipedia Project / Edit-a-thon	Sure We Can	2021	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19	This is the WikiProject related to Wikipedia coverage of COVID-19. It consolidates and coordinates community efforts to create trustworthy information on the pandemic. It was developed in part also through a partnership with WHO.	Global	Wikipedia Project	N/A	2020	Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Reliability	This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. This includes curating reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources.	N/A	Wikipedia Project	N/A	2011	Wikipedia
Wikipedian in Residence at Bantayog ng mga Bayani	The Bantayog ng mga Bayani is a foundation that maintains a memorial, museum, and library dedicated to remembering and honoring the heroes, martyrs, and victims of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. WikiSocPH partnered with the Bantayog who hired a Wikimedian in Residence (WiR) to help digitize the Bantayog’s library, to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of articles related to the Ferdinand Marcos regime, and to organize Wikimedia events and workshops to the Bantayog’s visitors, researchers, and supporters.	East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific	Fellowship	WikiSocPH	2018	Wikipedia
Віківишколи/Тренінг для журналістів 19 травня 2019 / Wikivishkoli/Training for journalists 19 May 2019	This is a master class on "How to enter journalism into Wikipedia" that was held in Kyiv in 2019, and organized by Wikimedia Ukraine together with the Institute for the Development of the Regional Press. The event was part of the Investigative Journalism Month held on Ukrainian Wikipedia in June-July.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Training	Wikimedia Ukraine	2019	Wikipedia
Вікіпедія:Авторитетні джерела / Wikipedia: Authoritative sources	This is a blog post explaining filter/list of untrustworthy sources that would flag them as untrustworthy for editors to use.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Blog post	Wikimedia Ukraine	2020	Wikipedia
ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» попереджає: користуючись Вікіпедією, не платіть шахраям! / NGO "Wikimedia Ukraine" warns: When using Wikipedia, do not pay fraudsters!	This is a blog post explaining how Wikipedia works and warning users against fraud and paid editing.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Blog post	Wikimedia Ukraine	2020	Wikipedia
Уикипедия:Патрульори/СФИН / Wikipedia:Patrollers/SFIN	This is a filter maintained by the community of editors preventing the use of unreliable sources in the main space, and also in the incubator, by users who are not members of the "autopatrolled" group. When such a user tries to enter a link to a source in the list, the link is detected by the abuse filter that pulls data from the list and the edit is rejected.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Tool	N/A	2016 (for the abuse filter); 2019 (adopted and enforced as a policy)	Wikipedia
Як перевіряти інформацію: поради з фактчекінгу від Vox Check / How to check information: Fact-checking tips from Vox Check	This is the abstract of a training on disinformation held by Wikimedia Ukraine in collaboration with Vox Check in 2021.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Training	Wikimedia Ukraine	2021	Wikipedia
Як читати новини критично? and Експерти та експертність у медіа / How to read news critically? and Experts and expertise in the media	This is the abstract of two training on disinformation and media literacy which were held by Wikimedia Ukraine in collaboration with Media Detector in 2020.	Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia	Blog post	Wikimedia Ukraine	2020	Wikipedia

Footnotes

[1] Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project is led by Hacks/Hackers and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. During Phase II of the project, which commenced in October 2022, partner and collaborating organizations include Wikimedia DC, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, National Public Health Information Coalition, and others. Advisement in Phase II also comes from a member of the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Net.

[2] Affiliates include the News Quality Initiative (NewsQ), Hacks/Hackers, and Knowledge Futures Group, with support from Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

Anti-Disinformation Repository (Text Description And Details)

Project: ¿Cómo funciona Wikipedia? 10 datos fundamentales para entenderla y sus principales desafíos / How does Wikipedia work? 10 fundamental facts to understand it and its main challenges

Description: Document with main points about how Wikipedia works, challenges of the platform and how information is built collaboratively.

Country: Argentina

Region: Global

Type: Document

Language: Spanish  

Group: Wikimedia Argentina

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia  

Project: ¡Que no te pille la tecnología! Personas Mayores Informadas / Don't let technology catch you! Senior Citizens Informed

Description: This video was created as part of a campaign to empower the senior population to avoid disinformation when using the internet. Participants were volunteer attendees of the workshop "Senior people and digital environments: tools for integration", organized by Wikimedia Chile, Google Chile, and the Quilicura municipality in Santiago, who shared their own experiences on how they use online information.

Country: Chile

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Video

Language: Spanish  

Group: Wikimedia Chile

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: N/A  

Project: 1 Lib 1 Ref (#1Lib1Ref)

Description: Twice per year, #1Lib1Ref—an abbreviation for “one librarian, one reference”—calls on librarians around the world, and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge, to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia. By increasing the use of reliable sources, the project improves the accuracy of the information.

Country: Multiple

Region: Global

Type: Edit-a-thon

Language: Indonesian, Malay, Bikol, German, English, Esperanto, Dutch, Sundanese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Basque, French, Galician, Italian, Latvian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Suomi, Swedish, Czech, Greek, Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi, Farsi, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Malayalam, Thai, Burmese, Chinese, and Japanese

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2016 (according to Talk page)

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: ARTT (Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust)

Description: Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, the ARTT project aims to support trust-building online conversations. The main tool of the project, the ARTT Guide, is a web-based software assistant that provides a framework of possible responses for everyday conversations around tricky topics. By bringing together insights about how to engage in positive exchanges around credible information, and by providing guidance, encouragement, and inspiration, the ARTT Guide will help our users answer the question: “What do I say (and how do I say it)?”

Country: USA

Region: North America

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project is led by Hacks/Hackers and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. During Phase II of the project, which commenced in October 2022, partner and collaborating organizations include Wikimedia DC, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, National Public Health Information Coalition, and others. Advisement in Phase II also comes from a member of the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Net

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: N/A    

Project: Ciclo de Charlas "Diálogos Urgentes" / "Urgent Dialogues" Talk Series

Description: Webinar about disinformation, Wikimedia projects, and collaborative coverage from a human rights perspective.

Country: Argentina

Region: Global

Type:: Podcast

Language: Spanish

Group: Wikimedia Argentina

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata    

Project: Citation Hunt

Description: Citation Hunt is a tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. It is available in several languages and allows browsing snippets either randomly or by their article's categories in a quick and fun way.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type:: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia    

Project: Cite Unseen

Description: Cite Unseen is a user script that adds categorical icons to Wikipedia citations, such as whether the citation counts as news, opinion, blog, state-run media, a published book, among others. These categorical icons provide readers and editors with a quick initial evaluation of citations at a glance. This helps guide users on the nature and reliability of sources, and to help identify sources that may potentially be problematic or should be used with caution.

Country: USA

Region: North America

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2019

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: CiteWatch

Description: This is a bot that compiles lists of unreliable sources which are cited by Wikipedians via a specific citation template, based on several lists of unreliable or questionable publications (such as those compiled by Jeffrey Beall, the University Grants Commission, Quackwatch, or Wikipedia editors.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type:Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2018

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Completude, consistência e correção em bases de dados digitais sobre mortos e desaparecidos políticos na ditadura civil-militar brasileira / Completeness, consistency, and correction in digital databases about victims and political desaparecidos during the Brazilian civic-military dictatorship

Description: This project is a research focused on improving content on those who were killed or disappeared during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). In the context in which the federal government was shutting down websites with official content on human rights violations during the military regime in Brazil, Wiki Movimento Brasil and partners focused on bringing all this information into Wikidata and Wikipedia.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Research

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikidata / Wikipedia

Project: Covid-19 et désinformacion / COVID-19 and disinformation

Description: This is a research project on COVID-19 disinformation on Wikipedia.

Country: France

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Research

Language: French

Group: Wikimedia France

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia    

Project: Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment

Description: This report evaluates a case of long-term systemic disinformation and project capture on the Croatian-language Wikipedia. The report was produced by an external expert, who conducted a thorough analysis of the content and community dynamics on the Croatian language Wikipedia. It revealed a widespread pattern of manipulative behavior and abuse of power by an ideologically aligned group of admins and volunteer editors. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Country: N/A

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Research

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: CTRL-F

Description: Wikimedia Chile, Together with CIVIX, CIPER Chile Journalistic Research Center, and Fast Check organizes the CTRL-F program. A training program for students to teach them verification and media literacy techniques.

Country: Chile

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Training

Language: Spanish

Group: Wikimedia Chile

Year: 2023

Wikimedia project: N/A    

Project: Decálogos para la lucha contra la desinformación en Wikipedia / Decalogues for the fight against disinformation on Wikipedia

Description: This is a training on misinformation and access to knowledge, in collaboration with Medialab-Prado. The event touched upon knowledge and strategies to fight disinformation on Wikipedia. It was directed to journalists, people who are dedicated to scientific research, activists, and Wikimedians.

Country: Spain

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Training

Language: Spanish

Group: Wikimedia España

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Disinfo 101

Description: An anti-disinformation training resource created by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Trust and Safety Disinformation team. It provides a basic introduction to terminology associated with disinformation; teaches you how disinformation typically functions within the Wiki ecosystem; and, provides a basic toolkit for dealing with disinformation on Wikimedia projects.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Training

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2023

Wikimedia project: All projects

Project: Flagged Revisions  

Description: FlaggedRevs (Flagged Revisions) is an extension of MediaWiki software that allows one to flag versions of articles and thus give additional information about quality. This comes with the possibility of changing what an unregistered user sees by default. The technical description can be found at mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs. This makes it easier to increase the article quality and trustworthiness.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Tool

Language: All

Group: N/A

Year: 2014/2017 (A 2017 moratorium established that no new Wikis can be added but those that were already active can maintain it)

Wikimedia project: MediaWiki

Project: HRVVMC Wikipedia Edit-a-thons

Description: The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission (HRVVMC), is a government agency tasked with documenting the human rights violations that occurred during the dictator’s regime and to establish a museum and a roll of victims. WikiSocPH worked with HRVVMC to help design training modules to train volunteers on how to edit Wikipedia articles related to the Marcos family and their regime. The Commission has conducted Wikipedia edit-a-thons to commemorate the initial declaration of martial law in 1972 and the Revolution in 1986 that ended the dictatorship.

Country: Philippines

Region: East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific

Type: Edit-a-thon

Language: English

Group: WikiSocPH

Year: 2020-2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: I Encuentro sobre lucha contra la desinformación en Wikipedia / 1st Meeting on the struggle against disinformation on Wikipedia

Description: This is a roundtable discussion with experts on the topic of disinformation on Wikipedia, organized by Wikimedia España in 2020.

Country: Spain

Region: Northern & Western Europe  

Type: Event

Language: Spanish

Group: Wikimedia España

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: International Science Council and Wikimedia Foundation webinar series: Exploring the opportunities and challenges of Wikipedia for science

Description: The Wikimedia Foundation organized a series of  webinars in collaboration with the International Science Council, in order to explain the Wikimedia model and how it contributes to creating trustworthy information. The first webinar, Webinar 1: Managing Knowledge Integrity on Information Platforms was on March 16, 2023 and discussed how Wikipedia is a model to model for safeguard the provenance of scientific information online. Speakers were Diego Sáez Trumper (Wikimedia Foundation), Connie Moon Sheat (Hacks/Hackers), and Amalia Toledo (Wikimedia Foundation). The second webinar, Webinar 2: Building Special Projects on Wikipedia: The Covid Case Study, was on March 30, 2023 and showcased the work of the community, and in particular on the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker was Netha Hussain, a volunteer who created the WikiProject Covid-19.

Country: United Kingdom

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Event

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2023

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Introdução ao Jornalismo Científico / Introduction to Scientific Journalism

Description: This project relied on a partnership with a research lab, NeuroMat, and is a resource for young professionals to specialize in science journalism. Modules 3 and 6 are focused on how misinformation is spread in Brazil.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Training

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikiversity

Project: Knowledge integrity, Wikimedia Research

Description: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team published a set of white papers that outline plans and priorities for the next 5 years. These white papers, which were developed collaboratively by all members of the team, reflect our thinking about the kind of research necessary to further the 2030 Wikimedia Strategic Direction of Knowledge Equity and Knowledge as a Service.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Research

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2019-

Wikimedia project: N/A

Project: Laboratorio Wikimedia de verificación de datos / Wikimedia workshop on data verification

Description: This is a training called Wikimedia fact-checking lab: learning and collaboration around Wikimedia projects whose goal is to investigate information and data verification to defend Wikipedia from misinformation.

Country: Spain

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Training

Language: Spanish

Group: Wikimedia España

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Machine Learning models, Wikimedia Research

Description: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research team has built machine learning models to assist patrollers in detecting revisions that might be reverted, independently of whether they were made in good faith or with the intention of creating damage. Previous models were language-specific solutions (e.g., ORES), which are difficult to escalate and maintain, and are just available in certain languages. In contrast, this new generation of machine learning models are based on language-agnostic features, making it possible to use them for any existing Wikipedia, and for new language projects that can appear in the future.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Tool

Language: N/A

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: masz - Media Wiki

Description: masz (the z is silent) is a tool that helps Checkusers (a small group of WP users who work on spotting fake accounts), see similarity of style and language in talk pages to find users with multiple accounts.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Tool

Language: English, French, Indonesian, Swedish, Italian, Czech, Spanish, Simple English, Portuguese

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia / Wikidata / Wikinews    

Project: Moderator Tools

Description: The Moderator Tools team is a Wikimedia Foundation product team working on content moderation tool needs.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Tool

Language: All

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2021-

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: New Page Patrol Source Guide

Description: This page centralizes information about reliable sources for new page reviewers to use when they review new articles. It is intended as a supplement to the reliable sources noticeboard and List of Perennial Sources, to help page reviewers unfamiliar with a given subject assess notability and neutrality of an article.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2019

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia    

Project: Observatoire de sources / Sources observatory

Description: This is a list of reliable and unreliable sources to use on French Wikipedia.

Country: France

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: French

Group: Wikimedia France

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Open the Knowledge Journalism Award

Description: Disinformation on Wikimedia projects often appears in areas in which there are content voids. For this reason, working on filling knowledge gaps is one way Wikimedia can work to increase trustworthy information on the projects. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, which recognizes the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The award is focused on articles by African journalists increasing knowledge about the African continent.

Country: N/A

Region: Middle East & North Africa / Sub-Saharan Africa

Type: Award

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2023

Wikimedia project: N/A

Project: ORES

Description: ORES is a web service and API that provides machine learning as a service for Wikimedia projects maintained by the Machine Learning team. The system is designed to help automate critical wiki-work—for example, vandalism detection and removal.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Tool

Language: Multiple

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2016

Wikimedia projects: All projects

Project: Project: Patrolling/Monitoring vandalism (Wikipedia Ukrainian)

Description: This project is no longer active. It was a WikiProject to check all edits that were made by anonymous users. It helped prevent vandalism from remaining in articles for a long time. The project kept a patrol log of anonymous edits according to this filter. The project was supported by Wikimedia Ukraine, but not maintained by Wikimedia Ukraine. It was maintained by individual dedicated editors.

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Wikipedia Project

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine    

Year: 2020 (archived)

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Project:Sources

Description: This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. The volunteers working on this project ensure that articles are supported by reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources. This project works to achieve the goals of the verifiability and no original research policies. For more information about the reliability of sources at Wikipedia, please visit our FAQ.

Country: France

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Wikipedia Project

Language: French

Group: Wikimedia France

Year: 2011    

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: PSS 9

Description: PSS 9 is an intelligent software agent-administrator (a bot with administrative rights) on the Bulgarian Wikipedia, which employs artificial intelligence to identify and actively counter vandalism, including the spread of mis- and disinformation.

Country: Bulgaria

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Tool

Language: Bulgarian

Group: N/A

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Reading Wikipedia in the classroom

Description: Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is Wikimedia Foundation’s teacher training program. By leveraging Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool, it helps educators and students develop vital media and information literacy skills for the 21st century.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Training

Language: English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Tagalog, Adapted English (Nigeria), Yoruba, Indonesian, Aymara, Guaranì, Quechua, Catalan, Dagbani

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Reliable sources noticeboard

Description: This is a noticeboard in which the community can discuss reliable sources. Guidelines for the use of reliable sources on En.WP can be found at Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2007

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Special:AbuseFilter891

Description: This is a filter that detects predatory publishers and flags them for editors.

Country: USA

Region: North America

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Template CiteQ

Description: This template returns a formatted citation from statements stored on a Wikidata item (referred to by its Q identifier or QID) describing a citable source such as a scholarly article. This project allows easy identification of citations to papers which have been redacted or replaced.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Unreliable guidelines - Reliable sources and marginalized communities in French, English, and Spanish Wikipedias

Description: This is a report of the research project Reading Together: Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities on reliable sources and marginalized communities on Wikipedia.

Country: Canada / USA / Peru

Region: North America / Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Research

Language: English    

Group: Art+Feminism, WikiCred

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD)

Description: The Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector (UPSD), is a user script that identifies various unreliable and potentially unreliable sources.

Country: N/A

Region: North America

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A    

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: User:JL-Bot/DOI

Description: DOIs are unique identifiers for academic articles. This bot checks those DOIs that are issued by Crossref and can show who is the person associated with the DOI.

Country: USA

Region: North America

Type: Tool

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2007

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Vanity and Predatory Publishing

Description: This page describes vanity and predatory publishers, with links to lists of both and an explanation of why they might be dangerous for Wikipedia articles. Vanity publishers refer to publishing houses where anyone can pay to have a book published. In contrast, predatory publishers refer to an exploitative academic publishing business model that charges publication fees without checking articles' quality or providing editorial services.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2017

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Verificatón en Wikipedia / Verific-a-thon on Wikipedia

Description: This is a training event that promotes a fact-checking culture among the Wikipedian community, the I Wikipedia Verific-a-thon. It is a meeting focused on the verification of knowledge related to health issues and, specifically, to the information on COVID-19 found in the free encyclopedia.

Country: Spain

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Event

Language Spanish

Group: Wikimedia España

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: WikiCon Brazil

Description: The theme of the 2022 WikiCon Brazil was disinformation. This theme was developed through trainings, events, and presentations.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Event

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: All projects

Project: Wikidata Lab XIV, Modelagem com estruturação intencional / Wikidata Lab XIV, Modeling with intentional structuring

Description: This was a training on how to share resources and capabilities for the integration of Wikidata with other Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Training

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2019

Wikimedia project: Wikidata / Wikipedia

Project: WikiFactCheckers training

Description: This WikiCred project trains media professionals how to use Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiCommons.

Country: Nigeria

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

Type: Training

Language: English

Group: WikiCred, Code for Africa

Year: 2023

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia / Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons

Project: Wikimedia and Democracy – The impact of Wikimedia UK's information literacy work on citizen engagement

Description: This is a comprehensive analysis, by Wikimedia UK, of its programs and their impact. In Particular, they analyze the impact of their information literacy work, and how the Wikimedia movement contributes to creating a healthier information environment and stronger democracy.

Country: United Kingdom

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Research

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia UK

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: All projects

Project: Wikimedia en Chine / Wikimedia in China

Description: This is a translation and comment for the French community of a memo released by the Wikimedia Foundation relative to an incident in the Chinese community.

Country: France

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Research

Language: French

Group: Wikimedia France

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikimedia in Education

Description: This is a booklet created by Wikimedia UK in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh about a series of case studies illustrating how to use Wikipedia as a tool for education and support learners to understand, navigate and critically evaluate information as well as develop an appreciation for the role and importance of open education.

Country: United Kingdom

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Research / Training

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia UK

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikidata / Wikipedia      

Project: Wikipédia contra a ignorância racional / Wikipedia against rational ignorance

Description: This is a research paper on Wikipedia against "rational ignorance". João Alexandre Peschanski led this project as an educator before becoming Executive Director of Wiki Movement Brazil User Group (Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil), and it is framed around a specific behavioral dimension of misinformation in electoral politics. A summary is available on this Wikimedia blog post (with a link to a more substantial research paper), and it has evolved as a Wikidata-integrated system for improving content on elections in Brazil.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Research

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2016

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia Huggle

Description: Huggle is a browser intended for dealing with vandalism and other unconstructive edits on Wikimedia projects. Huggle can load and review edits made to Wikipedia in real time, it also helps users identify unconstructive edits and allows them to be reverted quickly.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Tool

Language: Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, Chinese, Dutch, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, German, Estonian, Croatian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Turkish, Czech, Georgian, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bangla, Odia, Khmer, Vietnamese, Indonesian

Group: N/A

Year: 2008

Wikimedia project: All projects

Project: Wikipedia Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory, Wikimedia Research

Description: Monitoring system that allows exploring data and metrics on knowledge integrity risks to compare Wikipedia language editions. Knowledge integrity risks are captured through the volume of high-risk revisions, identified with the language-agnostic revert risk machine learning (ML) model, and their revert ratios over time and across pages.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Research

Language: English

Group: Wikimedia Foundation

Year: 2021-

Wikimedia project: N/A

Project: Wikipedia SWASTHA

Description: Wikipedia SWASTHA is an innovative, collaborative platform uniting multilingual editors from various Wikipedia communities to exchange best practices and jointly edit healthcare pages. Collaborating with diverse government agencies, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, SWASTHA focuses on enhancing healthcare awareness in local communities by providing accessible, multilingual health information on Wikipedia. Recognized by prominent media outlets for its impactful work, SWASTHA highlights the ethical dissemination of medical information in local languages to empower individuals with limited access to healthcare resources. We invite organizations to join our mission and harness the power of Wikipedia to create a lasting, positive change in global healthcare.

Country: N/A

Region: East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific

Type: Wikipedia Project

Language: English, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Oddia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Nepali.

Group: N/A

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:Deprecated sources

Description: This is a list of sources that are "deprecated," whose use on Wikipedia is discouraged because they "fail the reliable sources guidelines in nearly all circumstances."

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English, Russian, Polish

Group: N/A

Year: 2018

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipédia:Fontes confiáveis/Central de confiabilidade / Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Trust Center

Description: This is a page created to centralize discussions related to the sources used in articles which lists sources editors should avoid using in the project, many of which have been associated with disinformation campaigns. It is similar to lists of unreliable sources that exist for other language Wikipedias.

Country: Brazil

Region: Latin America & Caribbean

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: Brazilian Portuguese

Group: Wiki Movimento Brasil

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:Nierzetelne źródła / Wikipedia:Not reliable sources    

Description: This is an editorial recommendation including a list of unreliable sources that should not be used by Polish Wikipedia editors, with an explanation of how these are selected and why.

Country: Poland

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: Polish

Group: N/A

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources    

Description: This is a non-exhaustive list of sources whose reliability and use on Wikipedia are frequently discussed. This list summarizes prior consensus and consolidates links to the most in-depth and recent discussions from the reliable sources noticeboard and elsewhere on Wikipedia.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Page

Languge: English

Group: N/A

Year: 2018

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:Trovärdiga källor / Wikipedia:Credible sources    

Description: This is an essay explaining how to find and use credible sources in general and in particular in the Swedish language. Many Swedish-speaking Wikipedians have been involved in creating and maintaining this resource.

Country: N/A

Region: Northern & Western Europe

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: Swedish

Group: N/A

Year: 2008

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Reliable sources    

Description: Launched in April 2022 as a NewsQ project, Wikipedia “Reliable Sources” seeks to support Wikipedians who write articles on vaccines and want to cite reliable sources of vaccine information. NewsQ is collaborating with experienced Wikipedia editors to gather data on source quality and refine a list of reputable sources of vaccine information throughout 2023. NewsQ is a Hacks/Hackers initiative that has sought to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news online.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English

Group: Affiliates include the News Quality Initiative (NewsQ), Hacks/Hackers, and Knowledge Futures Group, with support from Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

Year: 2022

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change    

Description: WikiProject Climate change is a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to climate change. The WikiProject covers topics related to the causes of climatic change, the effects of climate change, and how society responds in terms of adaptation, mitigation and social and political change.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Wikipedia Page

Language: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Czech

Group: N/A

Year: 2010

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/SureWeCan COVID19 Task Force    

Description: This task force project focuses on Wikipedia editing and writing to share simple, factual information on the coronavirus pandemic in New York City with the goal of explaining the seriousness of the pandemic.

Country: USA

Region: North America

Type: Wikipedia Project / Edit-a-thon

Language: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Haitian Creole, Korean, French, Tagalog, polish, Yiddish, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew, Swahili, Malagasy, Yoruba, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hungarian, Bengali, Greek

Group: Sure We Can

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19

Description: This is the WikiProject related to Wikipedia coverage of COVID-19. It consolidates and coordinates community efforts to create trustworthy information on the pandemic. It was developed in part also through a partnership with WHO.

Country: N/A

Region: Global

Type: Wikipedia Project

Language: English, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Arabic, Shindi, Greek, Malay, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Finnish, Turkish, Marathi, Bangla, Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Thai

Group: N/A    

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Reliability

Description: This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. This includes curating reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources.

Country: N/A

Region: N/A

Type: Wikipedia Project

Language: English

Group: N/A    

Year: 2011

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Wikipedian in Residence at Bantayog ng mga Bayani    

Description: The Bantayog ng mga Bayani is a foundation that maintains a memorial, museum, and library dedicated to remembering and honoring the heroes, martyrs, and victims of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. WikiSocPH partnered with the Bantayog who hired a Wikimedian in Residence (WiR), to help digitize the Bantayog’s library, to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of articles related to the Ferdinand Marcos regime, and to organize Wikimedia events and workshops to the Bantayog’s visitors, researchers, and supporters.

Country: Philippines

Region: East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific

Type: Fellowship

Language: English

Group: WikiSocPH

Year: 2018

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Віківишколи/Тренінг для журналістів 19 травня 2019 / Wikivishkoli/Training for journalists 19 May 2019    

Description: This is a master class on "How to enter journalism into Wikipedia" that was held in Kyiv in 2019, and organized by Wikimedia Ukraine together with the Institute for the Development of the Regional Press. The event was part of the Investigative Journalism Month held on Ukrainian Wikipedia in June-July.

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Training

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine

Year: 2019

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Вікіпедія:Авторитетні джерела / Wikipedia: Authoritative sources

Description: This is a blog post explaining filter/list of untrustworthy sources that would flag them as untrustworthy for editors to use.

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Blog post

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» попереджає: користуючись Вікіпедією, не платіть шахраям! / NGO "Wikimedia Ukraine" warns: When using Wikipedia, do not pay fraudsters!

Description: This is a blog post explaining how Wikipedia works and warning users against fraud and paid editing.

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Blog post

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Уикипедия:Патрульори/СФИН / Wikipedia:Patrollers/SFIN

Description: This is a filter maintained by the community of editors preventing the use of unreliable sources in the main space, and also in the incubator, by users who are not members of the "autopatrolled" group. When such a user tries to enter a link to a source in the list, the link is detected by the abuse filter that pulls data from the list and the edit is rejected.

Country: Bulgaria

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Tool

Language: Bulgarian

Group: N/A

Year: 2016 (for the abuse filter); 2019 (adopted and enforced as a policy)

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Як перевіряти інформацію: поради з фактчекінгу від Vox Check / How to check information: Fact-checking tips from Vox Check

Description: This is the abstract of a training on disinformation held by Wikimedia Ukraine in collaboration with Vox Check in 2021.

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Training

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine

Year: 2021

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

Project: Як читати новини критично? and Експерти та експертність у медіа / How to read news critically? and Experts and expertise in the media    

Description: This is the abstract of two trainings on disinformation and media literacy that were held by Wikimedia Ukraine in collaboration with Media Detector in 2020.  

Country: Ukraine

Region: Central & Eastern Europe / Central Asia

Type: Blog post

Language: Ukrainian

Group: Wikimedia Ukraine

Year: 2020

Wikimedia project: Wikipedia

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