User:Hearvox/WikiSignals
WikiSignals is a proposed credibility-related Wikipedia Editing Tool.
Use the WikiSignals button above or the link under Tools to see the mockup in action.
Overview
Wikipedia's core mission is to be a source of credible information. To achieve this, we must maintain the credibility of not only internal articles but also external references. Wikipedia has a Perennial Sources list that ranks sources by their reliability. However, this list is only available for a handful of languages. The Wikipedia English is the the most developed, and even has ranks for only a few hundred websites (out of countless millions).
WikiSignals aims to close this gap. Participants in the WikiCred initiative are developig a Wikipedia editing tool that automates editor tasks related to credibility. The tool provides reliability-related signals for sources being considered for citations, references, and external-link lists. It returns website domain-level data[1] as well, including global traffic rank, registration date, and social media usage statistics — information that can be used to judge the quality of the reference.
The WikiSignals tool can expand to assist with other editing tasks. We plan to interview Wikipedia editors to find and address problems that WikiSignals might address, particularly with respect to the user workflow of editing. Our broader goal is to become part of an effort to build a comprehensive reference dataset of credibility indicators for news outlets, science journals, and possibly other source types.