User:Hearvox/WikiSignals

Wikipedia's core mission is to be a source of credible information. This requires maintaining the credibility of not only internal articles but also external references. Wikipedia has a Perennial Sources list that ranks sources by their reliability. However, this list is only available for a handful of languages. The Wikipedia English is the most developed and even that has ranks for only a few hundred websites (out of countless millions).

WikiSignals aims to close this gap. Participants in the WikiCred initiative are developing a Wikipedia editing tool that automates editor tasks related to credibility. The tool provides reliability-related signals for sources being considered for citations, references, and external-link lists. It returns website domain-level data^[1] as well, including global traffic rank, registration date, and social media usage statistics — information that can be used to judge the quality of the reference.

The WikiSignals tool can expand to assist with other editing tasks. We plan to interview Wikipedia editors to find and address problems that WikiSignals might address, particularly with respect to the user workflow of editing. Our broader goal is to become part of an effort to build a comprehensive reference dataset of credibility indicators for news outlets, science journals, and possibly other source types.

• Iffy.news
• Veri.FYI: Web Domain Risk Analysis
• WikiCredCon 2025 – Iffy.news
• Wikipedia/WikiSignals
• Wikipedia/WikiSignals/WikCred World
• Wikipedia/WikiSignals/Editing Tools
• WikiSignals.org
• new domain JSON (academy.ca)

• Check external reference-source credibility
• List reliability-related signals for reference.
• List social-media signals for reference’s domain.
• Save URLs in Wayback Machine archive.
• Return saved archive URLs in wikitext format.

1. Interview active Wikipedia editors (July-August)
2. Design and present mockup edit-form User Scripts (June-August)
3. Aggregate/evaluate credibility indicators for website domains, URLs and social media (July-September)
4. Incorporate credibility indicators into User Script (July-September)
5. Add feedback form for reporting errors and requesting features (August-September)
6. Optimize UI/UX (June-October)

• AfroCrowd (Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia) — Increase awareness and participation of people of African descent in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements.
• CUFinder—Access extensive worldwide databases, an all-in-one B2B lead generation and data enrichment platform.
• Factiverse— Verify your information and mitigate risk. AI-powered fact-checking solutions tailored to media and finance that accelerate research, access credible sources, and protect organizational reputations.
• Iffy.news— Tools for mis/disinfo research.
• Internet Archive Reference Explorer— Enter a Wikipedia URL and click "Load References" to display the credibility of citation resources. Part of IA's Turn All References Blue team.
• SimPPL— Rebuilding trust on the social internet. A research collective that designs open access tools and conducts research to cultivate transparency and authenticity online.
• Veri.FYI— Assess websites for misinformation risk based on publicly available data. Veri.FYI takes a URL or domain as an input and outputs indicators that can be used to assess the source's reliability.
• WebAIM— Web accessibility in mind. Expanding the potential of the web for people with disabilities by empowering individuals and organizations to create accessible content.

People: (Localmotion127), Gaute Kokkvoll (Gautek), Swapneel Mehta (SwapneelM), Barrett Golding (Hearvox), Chris Lombari (iamojo).