A community member has proposed a change to address the definition of "reach", and to changes to potential privacy practices.
Facts matter—but they do not live alone. Facts are part of a chain of verifiability, providing every person with the tools to learn how we know what we know. References to reliable sources are the foundation of Wikipedia's trustworthiness and its broad adoption as a global source for knowledge. The Wikimedia movement can only fulfil its mission of distributing free knowledge globally and effectively if it acts as a gateway for readers to reach reliable sources that underpin our content. To support this goal, we need an infrastructure built on fact provenance, open citation standards, and interoperability that will empower readers with the best possible tools for critically consuming information. The yearlong plan described below will lay the foundations for this longer arc of work: strengthening our reference infrastructure, expanding our network of knowledge partners, building the public's awareness of how Wikimedians vet facts and sources, and centering Wikimedia in the pressing conversation about combating misinformation. Together, this program sets a course to establish Wikimedia as the backbone of the trustworthy web while expanding Wikimedia's reach to a broader knowledge ecosystem.
Wikimedia sites provide the most trustworthy, comprehensive, neutral information across topics and languages by referencing this information to vetted reliable sources and linking it to external content providers and metadata repositories, making Wikimedia projects the central gateway to access citable information in the knowledge ecosystem.
Resources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible to readers in perpetuity, thanks to technical partnerships securing their preservation and digitization.
The public has increased awareness and understanding of the processes Wikimedians follow to verify and fact-check information, and on the benefits of open, auditable, linked information ecosystems.
A study on the state of sourcing and verifiability of Wikimedia projects is delivered.
An event stream tracking the creation and modification of external links and references across Wikimedia projects is delivered.
A study on the impact of algorithmic methods on citation gaps is delivered.
Compared to last year, archive links from all Wikipedia languages.
Reduce the time between link creation and link archiving to less than 1 minute.
Increase by 50% the volume of links recovered in Wikipedia outside of the English language edition.
Currently, link archiving via InternetArchiveBot is active only on 12 projects.
We'll measure the lag by using the new event stream.
Increase attendance of WikiCite outreach through satellite events by 50% over the current participation baseline.
#1Lib1Ref increases number of edits from librarians by 50%;, number of editors by 25%; 5 more languages participate and are tracked. OAbot raises the number of links added and increases unique participants by 50%; 2 non-English Wikipedias participate.
Using the #Hashtag Tools data dump to analyze #1Lib1Ref participants and contributions vs. last year; doing the same with #OAbot's internal data.
WMF Blog, Medium.com, and Twitter.com stats; conference attendance numbers. Press coverage.
We will conduct and publish research to map the "state of verifiability" of free knowledge by conducting analyses of what content in Wikipedia and Wikidata are unsourced or in need of citations, and which existing sources cited across Wikimedia projects are accessible by the general public.
We will conduct research to understand how readers use citations by combining quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify information quality and sourcing gaps, in order to determine to what degree readers' learning goals are met by consuming Wikimedia content alone rather than requiring references and links to external resources.
We will improve tools to identify unsourced statements, such as Citation Hunt, that are heavily relied upon by outreach events and campaign organizers, with algorithmically generated recommendations. We will continue to develop and test algorithmic methods to help volunteers identify and fill citations gaps, amplifying the reach and impact of initiatives such as 1Lib1Ref and extending pilot we conducted in FY 2018.
Fundraise for the annual meeting in the WikiCite series and set of satellite events, to improve the sustainability and global reach of the initiative.
We will deepen a partnership with the Internet Archive to facilitate the immediate and widespread caching of resources linked from Wikimedia projects, and to prioritize external efforts to digitize sources cited in Wikimedia projects.
Host the annual WikiCite gathering and extend promotion efforts over a broader timeframe to include a set of satellite events in order to improve the sustainability and global reach of the event.
1Lib1Ref runs twice a year in January and May (instead of once) and is expanded to include references for statements on Wikidata; the second #OAbot campaign during Open Access Week adds more links to free-to-read versions alongside closed access sources.
We will establish an audience map of our ecosystem and develop unique communications strategies based on each audience we would like to reach. Strategies may include writing for our blog, writing for other outlets, social media, and creating an events messaging strategy (the story we tell to each audience) which could include a blog series, Twitter tactics, and presentations at key conferences/events.
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