Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

[Brill Lyle]

I may not be correctly understanding the gist of this article but doesn't
something semi-similar already exist? I've recently seen these on some of
the Talk pages that are on my watch list.

- Erika
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:31 PM, George Herbert 
wrote:

>
> Just saw this in The Atlantic.  A suggestion Wikipedia implement a source
> verifiability meter for each article.
>
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

[George Herbert]

Thanks, Tilman, I missed that...

George William Herbert
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> On Apr 22, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Tilman Bayer  wrote:
> 
> See also the review of that preprint we ran in the Wikimedia Research
> Newsletter: 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F
> 
> and the community discussion it generated:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-03-02/Recent_research#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, George Herbert
>  wrote:
>> 
>> Just saw this in The Atlantic.  A suggestion Wikipedia implement a source 
>> verifiability meter for each article.
>> 
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

[Tilman Bayer]

See also the review of that preprint we ran in the Wikimedia Research
Newsletter: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F

and the community discussion it generated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-03-02/Recent_research#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, George Herbert
 wrote:
>
> Just saw this in The Atlantic.  A suggestion Wikipedia implement a source 
> verifiability meter for each article.
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/
>
> George William Herbert
> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

[James Heilman]

We are not trying to "incentivize sourcing articles with information that’s
easy for people to check online"
We are trying to use the best available sources, at least when it comes to
medicine.
James

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter 
wrote:

> On 2016-04-22 20:31, George Herbert wrote:
>
>> Just saw this in The Atlantic.  A suggestion Wikipedia implement a
>> source verifiability meter for each article.
>>
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/
>>
>> George William Herbert
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
> Interesting reading, thanks. However, do not we already have {{no
> sources}} for this purpose?
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 2016-04-22 20:31, George Herbert wrote:

Just saw this in The Atlantic.  A suggestion Wikipedia implement a
source verifiability meter for each article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/

George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone


Interesting reading, thanks. However, do not we already have {{no 
sources}} for this purpose?


Cheers
Yaroslav

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