Wikimania 2024

Introducing the Citation Watchlist
08-09, 10:00–10:25 (Poland), Ohrid (9)(interpretation)
Language: English

There is a Watchlist. There are lists of good, bad, or suspicious sources. We put them together, so you can monitor any source, or lists of sources, on your precious Watchlist.


The Watchlist is an essential monitoring and quality-assurance tool. But it lacks visibility when it comes to citations, a cornerstone of reliability. Now you can be alerted to good, bad, or suspicious sources while checking the articles that matter most to you. You can can also make your own custom lists to follow sources of personal interest or concern.

This session will include a background on citation quality and misinformation, a full tool introduction and demo, including how to use-it, and directions for future features and integration as a gadget or extension.

Participants will be able to give feedback and impact the direction of the tool's development.

Session recording: https://youtu.be/BbGrkYK8FEk?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=3042


How does your session relate to the event themes: Collaboration of the Open?*

Watchlists are our personal domains where we check for errors and updates and regularly keep out bad contributions. By integration citation monitoring into the watchlist, we can collectively improve the references, reliable sources, and verifiability of the each Wikipedia project.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?*

Everyone can participate in this session

How do you plan to deliver this session?*

Onsite in Katowice

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Product development

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Founder of The Wikipedia Library. Lead at WikiBlueprint. Global Wikipedia strategy consultant.

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