Cite Unseen is a JavaScript script for the English Wikipedia that automatically adds iconic indicators to citations to quickly convey the nature and bias of sources to readers.
This project was first 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.
- Website and full documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen
- Slidedeck: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cite_Unseen.pdf
- Phabricator Project (issue tracking): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4050/
- index.js - the script that runs on each Wikipedia page load. The script iterates over each citation on a Wikipedia article, pulls its external links, and compares them to the categorized domain data. The
categorizedDomainsandcategorizedStringsobjects need to be populated before running. - /scripts - various scripts used to scrape and generate data for Cite Unseen. Most of these scripts are rather crude with room for improvement.
- /data - data files (see below for more)
- 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 forwikipedia.orgwill be compared as.wikipedia.organd//wikipedia.orgin the script, to account for cases likeen.wikipedia.organdhttps://wikipedia.org). - data/categorized-strings.json - other strings that might appear as part of a domain (such as
/opinion/for finding opinion sources).