WikiTribune is a news wiki where volunteers write and curate articles about widely publicised news by proofreading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets.
Another great video by @lonelysandwich:
@jimmy_wales, founder of Wikipedia, and team are taking on fake, clickbait news with a hybrid wiki + journalism model. We need this today more than ever before.
It reminds me a bit of @mg's Circa (RIP) but with more of a crowdsourced bent.
As a journalism student this is extremely exciting. No one in the news field really has any idea of how to fix things, but this feels like an attempt worth making. Other sites have been simply shifting little bits of the plans they've been using for years, or have been implementing interface hostile popups —which hasn't really hasn't proven itself as a solution.
Even if WikiTribune doesn't go anywhere, or the community portion ends up being toxic, this is someone trying with a fresh approach in a field that desperately needs someone to.
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