Interesting stuff. As an initial first step, I added a newstrust
button to the {{Social bookmarks}} template. Its somewhat in the
background right now. We might perhaps consider a bigger, "review this
article" button later if we really want to push this. (Their review a
story button also has the option to add what categories the article
falls in, but I haven't added that part as its not used in their basic
button, and its unclear if its really used (And its somewhat more
complicated to do, as i can't do it directly via template) If we want
that i can do it later.)For having credibility ratings next to the source, sounds like a cool idea (at the very least for a gadget, having it global would require some careful consideration + potential privacy issues would need to be looked at), but I can't see anyway of getting such information off their site. The best i could find was a way of getting the last couple articles that a specific source published, and the ratings for those, but i did not see any way of getting the overall rating of a source, or the specific rating of an article. Feel free to send me said pdf. Can't guarantee i'll read 6 mb of pdf (unless there's a lot of pictures ;), but i'll flip through it. What else. I think we should re-model the flagged revisions reader feedback into some better design, perhaps inspired by newstrust. (flagged revs reader feedback module in its current form, sucks. a lot). cheers, bawolff On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Brian McNeil <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got off of an hour long Skype chat with Fabrice Floren, founder > of http://newstrust.net. Jimmy suggested to him it might be interesting > if there are ways Wikinews can work with them. I think there are, but to > some extent we need to check we're all within WMF rules, and we might > want to kick a few more people about Amgine's MediaWiki extension for > XML feeds. > > NewsTrust is a non-profit, ostensibly a news aggregator, but they > challenge people to review news and become more critical of it. They're > a hell of a lot more clued up about reviewing and being critical of news > than the feeble review widget in MediaWiki. > > I was up-front with Fabrice, Wikinewsies will look at their site and > say, "what can we steal?" Well, unless we run into the privacy policy, > we're welcome to steal all their gadgets, and get them reviewing our > stuff. > > My thoughts on this at the moment are there is room for collaboration; > feeding Wikinews stories into NewsTrust and putting the NewsTrust > review/rating widget on each Wikinews article. This could be > incorporated into the publish template. > > Second, they have pretty good background on the sources they follow and > are crowdsourcing "credibility ratings" for them. Could we pull that > data into the {{source}} template on Wikinews? By this I mean someone > reading one of Wikinews' articles scrolls down to the sources, it says > "The Guardian", gives the WikiTrust rating for the source, and the cited > article. > > Fabrice had not had a lot of time to look at Wikinews articles, but will > be sticking a couple up for the NewsTrust community to review. Cirt will > be pleased to know that at a semi-casual read his "Glenn Beck" coverage > was deemed comprehensive and well-researched. > > I'm going to sign up on the site and have a real dig round in the > morning. For now, there's the following links that might interest people > like, ooh, I don't know ;-) Bawolff? > > http://newstrust.net/tools/buttons > http://newstrust.net/sources/the_guardian > http://newstrust.net/widgets > http://newstrust.net/feeds/todays_feeds > > I also have a PDF of a NewsTrust presentation (~6Mb) if you want a copy > let me know a suitably well-endowed email address. > > > > > -- > Brian McNeil > <[email protected]>|http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil > Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official position > of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
