Talk:Wikifact
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Latest comment: 3 years ago by Fnielsen in topic A few questions
A few questions
I have a bit of difficulty in understanding the Wikifact proposal.
- For instance, what is a fact? The example "General Min Aung Hlaing's speech on TV Feb 8th 2021" is not a normal statement. A statement would be "General Min Aung Hlaing spoke on TV 8 february 2021".
- If the so-called "fact" is the transcribed talk called "General Min Aung Hlaing's speech on TV Feb 8th 2021" then there is already Wikisource. Note however, the possible problem of copyright with such content. If the Video source and the speech is compatible with CC BY-SA, then the video file can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and the speech can be transcribed on Wikisource.
- I wonder what is meant by the Wikifact proposal is some kind of Wikisource with annotation capability, where fragments of a source is called into question and wanted for fact checking?
- I wonder what we can do if the sourceis not compatible with CC BY-SA? Can we quote fragments?
- The English Wikipedia and a number of other Wikipedias have Template:Citation needed span. Are there anyone using that template and listings of it?
— Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 14:32, 9 February 2021 (UTC) Reply