English Wikinews took serious measures for reliability back in 2009. For our pains, we've received mostly grief from the Foundation, and from a vocal segment of the Wikipedian community. If they consulted, before this expertise-lending, with the sister project that specializes in vetting-before-publishing (one of the defining characteristics of news), I'm not aware of it. In fairness, Wikipedia might plausibly claim to have some expertise in dealing with the consequences of /not/ vetting before publication, and those consequences are legitimately of interest (but I agree the passage abound lending expertise cries for explanation; there's irony in talking about propaganda in a piece on the wikimedia blog, which tbh I consider a Foundation propaganda outlet).
On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On a related note, the Foundation Blog > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/07/misinfocon-fake-news/ proudly > announces that "the Wikimedia Foundation joined a handful of media > organization at the MIT Media Lab to lend their expertise at MisInfoCon". > That's certainly good to hear, but a little short on details In the > interests, of transparency, please could someone post a pointer to a fuller > description of the expertise that the Foundation has in this area (as > opposed to the community of volunteers), and a pointer to the submissions, > papers or other contributions that those experts made at the meeting? > > "Rogol" > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:31 PM, wiki.pine <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > FYI: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/04/04/new-nonprofit- > > consortium-will-focus-countering-fake-news-building-trust-media/ > > Involved parties include some names that will be familiar to Wikimedians > > and WMFers: "AppNexus, Betaworks, Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, > > Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, > > Mozilla, and the Tow Foundation." > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
