Future home of the WikiSignals citation credibility tool (demo). Use the search form to check domains.
Project Partners
This is an international collaborative effort, combining the expertise and resources of our partners:
AfroCrowd— Increase awareness and participation of people of African descent in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements.
CUFinder— Access extensive worldwide databases for every demand, the all-in-one B2B lead generation and data enrichment platform.
Factiverse— Verify your information and mitigate risk. AI-powered fact-checking solutions tailored to media and finance that accelerate research, access credible sources, and protect organizational reputations.
Iffy.news— Tools for mis/disinfo research, with the Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources and the Pink-Slime news map.
Internet Archive Reference Explorer— Enter a Wikipedia URL and click “Load References” to display the credibility of citation resources. Part of IA’s Turn All References Blue team.
SimPPL— Rebuilding trust on the social internet. A research collective that designs open access tools and conducts research to cultivate transparency and authenticity online.
Veri.FYI— Assess websites for misinformation risk based on publicly available data. Veri.FYI takes a URL or domain as an input and outputs indicators that can be used to assess the source’s reliability.
Sources
We gather the following data — from press membership directories, media indexes, ratings agencies, and web-related services.
Domain Data
Press associations
- AAM (Alliance for Audited Media)
- AAN (Association of Alternative Newsmedi)
- CoLab (CoLab News)
- GFMD (Global Forum for Media Development)
- Impress (Impress)
- INN (Institute for Nonprofit News)
- LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers)
- NNA (National Newspaper Association)
- NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association)
- trust.txt (JournalList)
- and 46 state press membership orgs
News-outlet indexes (vetted)
- LNI (Local News Iniitiative)*
- Oasis (Project Oasis)
- USNPL (US Newspaper Link)
- GoogleNews (Google News)*
- MBFC (Media Bias/Fact Check)
- WikiRSP-en (Wikipedia (en): Reliable/Perennial Sources)
Ratings
- Domain Quality
- MBFC (Media Bias/Fact Check)
Science Feedback (Consensus Credibility Scores)
Unreliable-site lists
- Iffy (Iffy.news)
- OpenSrc (Open Sources)
- PinkSlime (Pink Slime: Fake-local News)
- Predatory (Predatory/Hijacked science journals)
- WikiFake (Wikipedia (en): List of fake news websites)
- WikiSatire (Wikipedia (en): List of satirical news websites)
- WikiSpam (MediaWiki: SpamBlacklist)
- WikiRSP-X (Wikipedia (en): Reliable/Perennial Sources: Generally Unreliable, Deprecated, Blacklisted)*
Reliable-site lists*
- Spiffy*
- Peer-Reviewed science journals*
- WikiRSP-Y (Wikipedia (en): Reliable/Perennial Sources: Generally Reliable)*
(* = coming)
