Cite-Unseen

Cite Unseen is a JavaScript gadget for Wikipedia that automatically adds iconic indicators to citations to quickly convey the nature and bias of sources to readers.

This project is being developed by Kevin Payavi and Josh Lim. The project was started at the CredCon 2018 hackathon in Austin, Texas, and has received support from the Credibility Coalition and Knowledge Graph Working Group.

Links

• Slidedeck: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cite_Unseen.pdf
• Phabricator Project (issue tracking): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4050/

Directory Overview

• index.js - the main script that runs on each Wikipedia page load. The script iterates over each citation on a Wikipedia article, pulls its external links, and compared them to our categorized domain data.
• mbfc-scraper.js - a scraper for MediaBiasFactCheck that pulls the most biased sources based on the binary left-right scale provided for each documented source.
• /data - any data files that are used by the project.

Data Overview

• data/categorized-domains.json - partial and full domains that are categorized by type (government, opinion, community news, etc.). In the script, each entry is prepended with a . and // before doing comparisons (e.g. an entry for wikipedia.org will be compared as .wikipedia.org and //wikipedia.org in the script, to account for cases like en.wikipedia.org and https://wikipedia.org).
• data/categorized-strings.json - other strings that might appear as part of a domain (such as /opinion/ for finding opinion sources).