User:Superb Owl
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Semi-retired
This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia-related work
Drafting an essay on strategies for the future of Wikipedia (just a starting point - please collaborate!)
- Censorship of Wikipedia
- List of content forks of Wikipedia
- List of medical wikis
- List of open source mobile phones
- Litigation involving the Wikimedia Foundation
- Open source software
- Right to repair
- Wiki Education Foundation
Reliable Sources for Wikipedia
- Created the Reliable Source Engine that limits search results to news sources that Wikipedians have deemed generally reliable (as well as some based on my research for the below articles)
- Contributed to essays on:
- Wikipedia:Advanced source searching
- Wikipedia:Articles on sources
- Wikipedia:Disinformation
- Wikipedia:Libel
- Wikipedia:Litigation void
- Wikipedia:Overreliance upon Google
- Wikipedia:Personal security practices
- Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources
- Wikipedia:State media and Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Academic freedom and Wikipedia have tips on how to evaluate their reliability as Wikipedia sources
- WikiProject Conservatism resource page compiling Center/right-leaning reliable sources
Journalism-related work
In addition to work helping to maintain Wikipedia:WikiProject Journalism and Wikipedia:WikiProject Freedom of speech, I have focused on better understanding journalism through work on the following article *for myself and for Wikipedia more generally):
Articles with significant contributions
Journalism-adjacent concepts
- Academic freedom
- Concentration of media ownership
- Fact-checking (list of fact-checking websites)
- Investigative journalism
- Independent media
- Journalism (Journalism genres)
- Law review
- Media bias (in the United States)
- Media literacy
- Nonprofit journalism
- Pink-slime journalism
- Public broadcasting (list of public broadcasters by country)
- Public service journalism
- Recusal
- Safety of journalists
- Sensationalism
- Social media (as a news source)
- Strategic lawsuit against public participation
- Transnational repression
- State media (list of state media by country and category:State media)
- Yellow journalism
Journalism organizations/initiatives
- AllSides
- Citizen Lab
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Free Press (advocacy group)
- Global Investigative Journalism Network
- Institute for Nonprofit News
- Media and Journalism Research Center
- Media Matters for America
- NewsGuard
- Nieman Foundation for Journalism
- On the Media
- Poynter Institute
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Reporters Without Borders
- Stanford Internet Observatory
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Student Press Law Center
- World Day Against Cyber Censorship
- World Press Freedom Index
Specific outlets
Democracy-related work
Part of WikiProject Human Rights and interested in seeing how innovations in democratic decision-making can be applied to Wikipedia. Below are some of the articles on the topic that I have contributed the most to:
Articles
- Democracy
- Democratic backsliding (in the US)
- Suffrage/Universal suffrage/Political egalitarianism
- Deliberative democracy
- Jury (in the United States)
- Electoral system
- Voter suppression/election subversion/voter turnout
- Ballot curing
- Compulsory voting
- Election security/electoral integrity
- Elections in the United States
- Electoral fraud (in the United States)
- Get out the vote
- Off-year election
- Spoiler effect/Wasted vote/Efficiency gap
- Voter fatigue
- Voter registration in the United States
- Voter suppression in the United States
- Voting age
(Mostly past) Projects:
About me
| This user appreciates editors who improve articles on sources |
| This user recommends reading Wikipedia:Personal security practices |
| This user adopted a WP:one-revert rule pledge on November 11, 2024 |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Human rights |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Freedom of speech. talk | recent changes | stubs |
 | This user participates in WikiProject Journalism. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability. |