Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

To clarify, are you referring to Wikipedia's reporting of fake news, or fake news being disseminated on Wikipedia itself? James Hare Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Devouard (gmail)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Omg. What a ride Thank you for sharing that one Tomasz. I guess that since this one somewhat involves France, I somehow have a duty to use it in my talk : Le 28/04/2018 à 16:28, Tomasz Ganicz a écrit : If you are interested - an epic story from Poland:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

If you are interested - an epic story from Poland: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forks_CEE_Meeting_2017.pdf 2018-04-27 16:26 GMT+02:00 Devouard (gmail) : > Hi > > I have been proposed to give a conference about wikipedia and fake news > and to focus on very

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Le 27/04/2018 à 17:34, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit : Try looking at the story of the "Daily Mail ban" in the English Wikipedia. Daily Mail is not really fake news (it's just sensationalist, biased, and not that useful), and the ban is not hermetic, but that is much closer to the topic of fake news

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Try looking at the story of the "Daily Mail ban" in the English Wikipedia. Daily Mail is not really fake news (it's just sensationalist, biased, and not that useful), and the ban is not hermetic, but that is much closer to the topic of fake news than hoaxes. The discussions around the "ban", and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

There are topics where generally there is a lot of POV pushing (not necessarily fake news, just people adding unreferenced or poorly referenced POV material), for example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea which contains a lot of both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian pushing.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Thanks for the first answers, both online and private. (the WikiData one is good and the List of Hoax should come handy. I also got an excellent suggestion with a recent research : http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/papers/wikiworkshop2018_paper_1.pdf) Let me be more specific... I am in particular

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Hi Florence, this page might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia It is of course very different to create a complete hoax on Wikipedia on a topic which is heavily watched. It is much easier to create a hoax on an obscure subject very few people know about,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news

We have the latest propaganda issue from Russia (gazprom and a troll company), that has been accepted in around 50 wikipedia versions. I see this not only as propaganda but also fake news https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19960532 Anders Den 2018-04-27 kl. 16:26, skrev Devouard (gmail): Hi I

[Wikimedia-l] Fake news

Hi I have been proposed to give a conference about wikipedia and fake news and to focus on very specific examples rather than general concepts. I already have a few ideas but any pointers to particularly interesting cases or discussions will be welcome. Thanks for your help. Florence

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics

Here is a tweet describing a problem with social media recommendation systems: "The algorithm I worked on at Google recommended Alex Jones' videos more than 15,000,000,000 times, to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation." - @gchaslot What should the penalty for that be? A fine? Enough