User:Sj/Cites

A number of current projects aim to build a better universe of claims, sources, and assessments of their reliability.

A common set of observations explored by a range of tools and evaluations:

[sentence BS in document B] [citations for BS] [key concepts] [sentence AS in WP article A] [citations for AS]

[relevance? yes/maybe] [agreement? yes/no/neutral]

Here relevance means how closely related A and B are, and agreement means whether AS and BS agree.

If B and A are the same article, this can be used to check for intra-article consistency. If B is another wikiverse article, this can check for cross-article consistency. If B is in an unknown page on the web, the can compare its claims to A. If B is a reliable source, this can check A against it. If both A and B have their own secondary sources, this can check those source-sets against one another.

Ingestion ('mouth')

• dbpedia - extract claims from wikiverse articles
• TARB preprocessing - extract new citations from the edit stream.

Databases ('stomach')

• FactBank / Knowledge Bank / Vault - Database of claims in dbpedia / from wikiverse projects

see also dbpedia

• WikiCite - A wikibase for all citations references on WP, or uploaded by wikimedians

Start w/ all sources in Wikidata, move to its own Wikibase. This is planned to be split out from the rest of Wikidata in 2024.

Eventually: add all links in WP; then all scholarly literature; then all news articles from reliable publishers

• TARB - includes a database of all references on WP articles (Internet Archive - turn all references blue)
  

Evaluations ('eyes')

Alignment

• CitationNeeded - tool for highlighting text in web pages to check against WP - Chrome plugin

Future variant: View Sources - see sources on web page + related sources on associated wikiverse pages

Question:

Evaluation

• CitationChecker / Automated Link Checker - look at a cite and eval whether it says what the sentence/paragraph it's attached to says.

• Reference Risk (model) - evaluate risk of an existing ref needing replacement, or of an unreferenced sentence needing a ref to avoid removal.

Updates ('hands')

Action

Reference Replacer - cf CiteCheck